Hunting the gatherers : ethnographic collectors, agents and agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s / edited by Michael O'Hanlon and Robert L. Welsch.

The museum of other people : from colonial acquisitions to cosmopolitan exhibitions / Adam Kuper.

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Hunting the gatherers : ethnographic collectors, agents and agency in Melanesia, 1870s-1930s / edited by Michael O'Hanlon and Robert L. Welsch.

The museum of other people : from colonial acquisitions to cosmopolitan exhibitions / Adam Kuper.