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Knowing Things Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 1884 1945 1st Edition by Chris Gosden, Frances Larson ISBN 0199225893 978-0199225897

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Author(s): Chris Gosden, Frances Larson, Alison Petch
ISBN(s): 9780199225897, 0199225893
Edition: 1st
File Details: PDF, 170.61 MB
Year: 2007
Language: english
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ISBN 10: 0199225893 

ISBN 13: 978-0199225897

Author: Chris Gosden, Frances Larson

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.
 

Table of 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 in the Museum
7:Beyond the Boundaries of the Museum: Disciplinary Reconfigureation at Oxford
8:The Pitt Rivers Museum Stretched Out: Collecting in the Field
9:Spatial Transformations: Representing the World at the Pitt Rivers Museum

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