James Cook
Subtitle: gifts and treasures from the South Seas : the Cook/Forster Collection, Göttingen = Gaben und Schätze aus der Südsee : Die Göttinger Sammlung Cook/Forster
By: edited by Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Gundolf Krüger ; with contributions by Christian F. Feest ... [et al.].
Contributors: Hauser-Schäublin, Brigitta.; Krüger, Gundolf.; Feest, Christian F.; Cook/Forster Collection (Göttingen, Germany)
Publisher: Prestel
Published: 1998
Place of publication: Munich; New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 350
Subjects: Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Travel.; Cook, James, 1728-1779 -- Ethnological collections.; Cook/Forster Collection (Göttingen, Germany) -- Catalogs.; Ethnological museums and collections -- Germany -- Göttingen -- Catalogs.; Ethnology -- Pacific Area.; Material culture -- Pacific Area -- Catalogs.; Pacific Area -- Discovery and exploration.
Genres: Catalogs.
Other titles: Gifts and treasures from the South Seas; Gaben und Schätze aus der Südsee
Notes: Text in English and German in parallel columns.
Includes bibliographical references (p. 347-[351]).
Table of contents: value: Exchanged value : the winding paths of the objects = Getauschter wert : die verschlungenen pfade der objekte / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin; value: Cook's voyages and the European discovery of the South Seas = Cooks reisen und die europäische entdeckung der Südsee / Manfred Urban; value: The acquisition history of the Göttingen collection = Die erwerbungsgeschichte der Göttinger sammlung / Manfred Urban; value: The Göttingen collection in an international context = Die Götting sammlung im internationalen kontext / Adrienne L. Kaeppler; value: Tahiti and the society islands : an archipelago as seen in the light of European yearnings = Tahiti und die gesellschaftsinseln : ein archipel im spiegel europäischer sehnsüchte / Gundolf Krüger; value: New Zealand : land of the long white cloud = Neuseeland : land der langen, weissen wolke / Markus Schindlbeck; value: Tonga : entry into complex hierarchies = Tonga : eintritt in komplexe hierarchien / Adrienne L. Kaeppler; value: Marquesas : plagued by misfortune = Marquesas : unter einem unglücklichen stern / Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin; value: Hawai'i : ritual encounters = Hawai'i : die begegnung als ritus / Adrienne L. Kaeppler; value: The New Hebrides and New Caledonia : confrontations as mirrored by the collected ethnographic items = Neue Hebriden und Neukaledonien : konfrontationen im spiegel der gesammelten ethnographica / Volker Harms; value: Tierra del Fuego = Feuerland ; The north-west coast of America and the Arctic = Nordwestküste Amerikas und Artis / Christian F. Feest.