Collecting the Condominium: a comparative analysis of collections from Vanuatu in the ex-colonial countries of Britain and France.

该项目通过两个前殖民国家目前掌握的人种学收藏的透镜，审查瓦努阿图、英国和法国之间错综复杂的关系。法国和英国航海家在18世纪到达太平洋群岛;库克在1774年将其命名为新赫布里底群岛，这是1906年至1980年瓦努阿图独立期间联合殖民管理期间使用的名称。研究将集中在英国和法国博物馆中很少研究的收藏品和档案，以及主要机构的收藏品。这些藏品将在“非殖民化”辩论的背景下进行审查，包括收集的情况，收集的材料类型，以及两个殖民大国的管理人员，传教士和其他人在收集实践中的异同。将寻求瓦努阿图的观点，分享研究成果，以便在博物馆和来源社区之间建立合作联系。

This project examines the entangled relationship between Vanuatu, Britain and France through the lens of ethnographic collections now held in the two ex-colonial powers. French and British navigators reached the Pacific archipelago in the 18th century; Cook in 1774 named it New Hebrides, a name used during joint colonial administration as a condominium from 1906 until independence in 1980, when Vanuatu was adopted. Research will focus on little-studied collections and archives in museums in Britain and France, as well as on collections in major institutions. These collections will be examined, in the context of 'decolonising' debates, in terms of the circumstances of collection, the types of material collected, and similarities/differences in collecting practices by administrators, missionaries and others from the two colonial powers. Ni-Vanuatu perspectives will be sought and research results shared in order to build collaborative links between museums and source communities.