TY  - BOOK
AU  - Burt,Ben
TI  - The Museum of Mankind: Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department 
T2  - Museums and Collections
SN  - 9781789203028
U1  - 305.80074 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2019///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - Ethnological museums and collections
KW  - England
KW  - London
KW  - Ethnologists
KW  - Biography
KW  - ART / Museum Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - Ethnography in the Museum
KW  - History of the British Museum
KW  - Museum Memoir
KW  - Various Roles of a National Museum
N1  - Frontmatter --; CONTENTS --; ILLUSTRATIONS --; ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS --; INTRODUCTION --; ONE. FROM BRITISH MUSEUM TO MUSEUM OF MANKIND --; TWO. COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS --; THREE. EXHIBITIONS --; FOUR. THE STORES --; FIVE. RESEARCH AND COLLECTING --; SIX. EDUCATION --; SEVEN: BACK TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM --; EPILOGUE --; APPENDIX. ETHNOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT EXHIBITIONS, 1970 TO 2003 --; REFERENCES --; INDEX; restricted access
N2  - The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures. Issues of changing museum theory and practice are raised in a detailed case-study that also focuses on the social life of the museum community. This is the first history of a remarkable museum and a memorable interlude in the long history of one of the world’s oldest and greatest museums. Although not presented as an academic study, it should be useful for museum and cultural studies as a well as a wider readership interested in the British Museum
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781789203035?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781789203035
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781789203035/original
ER  -