Repatriation, Exchange, and Colonial Legacies in the Gulf of Papua: Moving Pictures

by Christopher Lee and Lara Lamb

This book explores the people of the Kikori River Delta, in the Gulf of Papua, as established historical agents of intercultural exchange. One hundred years after they were made, Frank Hurley's colonial-era photographic reproductions are returned to the descendants of the Kerewo and Urama peoples, whom he photographed. The book illuminates how the movement, use, and exchange of objects can produce distinctive and unrecognised forms of value. To understand...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 3031155785
• ISBN13: 9783031155789
• Release Date: January 2023
• Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
• Length: 279 Pages
• Weight: 1.12 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.7" x 5.8" x 8.3"