Embodied inter-cultural dialogues : The biography of a samoan necklace in cologne

Abstract

associated with the voyages of James Cook, in which she traced the history of individual objects in order to document their attribution to Cook and his voyages, many similar studies have been done on ethnographic collections in museums around the world. This body of work has evolved into an approach that regards objects and collections as having lives of their own (see Kopytoff 1986 and, more generally, Appadurai 1986a) and, in particular for the Pacific, assigns them agency and thereby multi-layered and non-linear biographies similar to those of humans (see Gosden and Knowles 2001, Gosden and Marshall 1999, Thomas 1991). The approach thus differs markedly from traditional art-historical and anthropological approaches to objects that see them as innate, passive entities, as possessing meaning but not actively creating and shaping it (cf. Hoskins 1998, where objects are used to tell the life stories of people rather than those of the objects themselves). More recently, Kaeppler (2003) introduced the concept of “inter-cultural dialogues ” to the study of material culture. This idea has stimulated theorising

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