Material Encounters (Paperback, 1)

Introduction?Contact tracing: The materiality of encounters 1. Mapping the once and future strait: Place, time, and Torres Strait from the sixteenth century to the Pleistocene 2. Re-presenting encounters: The drawings of Jean Piron 3. ‘With the consent of the tribe’: Marking lands on Tanna and Erromango, New Hebrides 4. Marginal history 5. Making the visual record of New Guinea: William G. Lawes’s photographic encounters 6. Heads and ‘cultures’: A. C. Haddon, colonial exploration and the ‘Strickland River’ inscription 7. Smoke and mirrors in Arnhem Land: What expeditions tell us about the materiality of crosscultural encounters 8. On the banality of paperwork and the brutality of judicial bureaucracy in Myanmar