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“Nature’s Marvels”: The Value of Collections Extracted from Colonial Western Australia
Journal of Australian Studies ( IF 0.844 ) Pub Date : 2021-05-03 , DOI: 10.1080/14443058.2021.1916982
Alistair Paterson 1 , Andrea Witcomb 2
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ABSTRACT

The history of collecting in Western Australia demonstrates some unique as well as exemplary features that we suggest can illuminate aspects of collecting more broadly. This article seeks to contribute to scholarship on the history of collecting by arguing for the importance of understanding the ways in which the value of collections—to collectors, institutions and knowledge producers—has been produced. We call this focus on value an extractive value-adding approach to collection studies. Deploying this approach reveals not only the close relationship between collecting practices and colonialism, but also the ways in which types of values are made, not given, and the processes involved in their production. By revealing the social context of these processes, our hope is that new understandings of these collections can be produced—that address the colonial legacies embedded in the making of these collections and the purposes to which they were put at the time of their making. This focus is uniquely relevant to Australian studies because the integration of collection studies across natural and ethnographic domains, economics, history and cultural theory is able to clearly interrogate the relationship between collecting practices and colonisation in Australia.



中文翻译:

“大自然的奇迹”:从西澳大利亚殖民地时期提取的藏品的价值

摘要

西澳大利亚州的收藏历史展示了一些独特且堪称典范的特征,我们认为这些特征可以更广泛地阐明收藏的各个方面。本文旨在通过论证理解收藏价值——对收藏者、机构和知识生产者——的产生方式的重要性,为收藏史的学术做出贡献。我们称这种对价值的关注是一种提取式增值方法到收藏研究。运用这种方法不仅揭示了收集实践与殖民主义之间的密切关系,而且揭示了价值类型的产生方式(未给出)以及生产过程所涉及的过程。通过揭示这些过程的社会背景,我们希望能够产生对这些藏品的新理解——解决这些藏品制作过程中的殖民遗产以及它们在制作时的目的。这一重点与澳大利亚研究具有独特的相关性,因为跨自然和人种学领域、经济学、历史和文化理论的收藏研究的整合能够清楚地询问澳大利亚的收藏实践与殖民化之间的关系。

更新日期:2021-05-28
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