Linkage Projects - Grant ID: LP0883050

Funding Activity

Website
http://dataportal.arc.gov.au/NCGP/API/grants/LP0883050

Funding Status
Closed

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Funded Activity Summary

The development and testing of a theory of the processes that shape material culture diversity using a New Guinea dataset. Australian museums hold approximately 150,000 artefacts from the Pacific. Estimates of overseas holdings suggest another 500,000. From these collections, objects are selected for research or exhibition based on restricted themes. No attempt has yet been made to utilise these collections in a comprehensive way to maximise their research potential. This has now been done for the north-central region of New Guinea and the available information provides the opportunity to develop a theory of the processes that bring about diversity of material culture. Such a theory would be of international significance for ethnologists and archaeologists and add value to publicly-funded collections.

Funded Activity Details

Start Date: 05-2008

End Date: 12-2010

Funding Scheme: Linkage Projects

Funding Amount: $130,000.00

Funder: Australian Research Council

Research Topics

ANZSRC Field of Research (FoR)

Museum Studies | Anthropology | Human Geography Not Elsewhere Classified | Social And Cultural Anthropology

ANZSRC Socio-Economic Objective (SEO)

Heritage not elsewhere classified |

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