Book Review: Stanyukovich M.V., Kasatkina A.K. (ed.). “Museum Collections and Contemporary Culture of the Peoples of Indonesia, Malasia, Philippines, Oceania”. Saint Petersburg: MAE RAS, 2018. 240 pp.
DOI: 10.33876/2311-0546/2020-49-1/266-269
Keywords:
Austronesian ethnography, Russian ethnography, museum collection, field work, Kunstkammer, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, OceaniaAbstract
The new collection of articles published by MAE (Kunstkamera) RAS “Museum Collections and Contemporary Culture of the Peoples of Indonesia, Malaysia, the Philippines, Oceania” contains papers on the ethnography and ethnobotany of the said region, as well as on the history of the Austronesian collections of the Museum of Anthropology and Ethnography RAS. Special attention is payed to the fates of their collectors. The contributors to the book are staff of the Department of Australia, Oceania and Indonesia of the MAE RAS, which is the Russian leading center of Austronesian fieldwork research.
