| Description |
xviii, 261 pages : illustrations, maps ; 25 cm |
| Contents |
1. What is a Museum? -- 2. Museum Ethnography: The Field Site and Our Informants -- 3. Participatory Anthropology: Museums as Emergent Entities -- 4. Objects Collect People: Past Perspectives on the Mind and the Material World -- 5. Collecting Rhythms: Typological Methods in Archaeology and Anthropology -- 6. Material Anthropology: Generating Knowledge at the Pitt Rivers Museum -- 7. Beyond the Boundaries of the Museum: Disciplinary Reconfiguration at Oxford -- 8. The Pitt Rivers Museum Stretched Out: Collecting in the Field -- 9. Spatial Transformations : Representing the World at the Pitt Rivers Museum -- 10. Concluding Thoughts |
| Summary |
"This book explores the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum and its collections. Many thousands of people collected objects for the Museum between its foundation in 1884 and 1945, and together they and the objects they collected provide a series of insights into the early history of archaeology and anthropology. The volume also includes individual biographies and group histories of the people originally making and using the objects, as well as a snapshot of the British empire. The main focus for the book derives from the computerized catalogues of the Museum and attendant archival information. Together these provide a unique insight into the growth of a well-known institution and its place within broader intellectual frameworks of the Victorian period and early twentieth century. It also explores current ideas on the nature of relationships, particularly those between people and things."--BOOK JACKET |
| Notes |
Formerly CIP. Uk |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Subject |
Pitt Rivers Museum -- History.
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Pitt Rivers Museum.
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Anthropological museums and collections -- England -- Oxford -- History.
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Archaeological museums and collections -- England -- Oxford -- History.
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Material culture -- Collection and preservation -- England -- Oxford.
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Museums -- History.
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| SUBJECT |
Oxford (England) http://id.loc.gov/authorities/names/n79065853
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| Author |
Larson, Frances, 1976-
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Petch, Alison, 1956-
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| LC no. |
2008270657 |
| ISBN |
0199225893 (hbk.) |
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9780199225897 (hbk.) |
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