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This book explores the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum and its collections. Thousands of people collected objects for the Museum between its foundation in 1884 and 1945, and they, and the objects they collected, provide a series of insights into the early history of archaeology and anthropology, as well as a snapshot of the British Empire.

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

Knowing Things Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 18841945

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    Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
    Publication Date: 12/13/2007 12:00:00 AM
    ISBN13: 9780199225897, 978-0199225897
    ISBN10: 0199225893
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    Description

    Book Synopsis
    This book explores the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum and its collections. Thousands of people collected objects for the Museum between its foundation in 1884 and 1945, and they, and the objects they collected, provide a series of insights into the early history of archaeology and anthropology, as well as a snapshot of the British Empire.

    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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