TY  - BOOK
AU  - Nichols,Catherine A.
TI  - Exchanging Objects: Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution 
T2  - Museums and Collections
SN  - 9781800730526
U1  - 306.074753 23/eng/20230216
PY  - 2021///]
CY  - New York, Oxford
PB  - Berghahn Books
KW  - ART / Museum Studies
KW  - bisacsh
KW  - 19th century
KW  - anthropology
KW  - appropriation
KW  - archival
KW  - art collectors
KW  - art
KW  - career
KW  - classifying objects
KW  - collections catalogs exhibitions
KW  - contemporary museum work
KW  - deaccessioning
KW  - duplicate specimens
KW  - engaging
KW  - exchange
KW  - historical account
KW  - history
KW  - local institutions
KW  - museum curators
KW  - museum exchanges
KW  - museum objects
KW  - museum professionals
KW  - museum studies
KW  - museums
KW  - page turner
KW  - realistic
KW  - schools
KW  - smithsonian institution
KW  - technical requirement
N1  - Frontmatter --; Contents --; List of Illustrations and Tables --; Acknowledgments --; List of Abbreviations --; Chronology. Lists of Relevant Smithsonian Institution/ US National Museum Personnel --; Introduction. A Bowl’s Journey, There and Back Again --; Part I. The Museum through the Lens of Specimen Exchange --; Chapter 1. The Smithsonian and the Museum: Specimen Exchange as a Bridge between Joseph Henry’s Research Institution and Spencer Baird’s Grand Cabinet --; Chapter 2. Spencer Baird’s US National Museum and Early Trends in Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates (1861–1880) --; Chapter 3. Networking the US National Museum: Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates (1882–1920) --; Chapter 4. Giving and Receiving: Specimen Exchange between Curators, and the Shaping of Anthropological Collections --; Part II. The Duplicate --; Chapter 5. Duplicates: Specimens in Motion --; Chapter 6. Catalogs, Classifi cation, and Contingency: Designating Duplicates --; Conclusion. Museum Pasts and Futures --; Appendix. Smithsonian Institution/USNM Table of Distributed Specimens (1854–1880) --; Bibliography --; Index; restricted access
N2  - As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local institutions, created through the exchange of museum objects. It explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as “duplicate specimens,” making them potential candidates for exchange. This historical form of what museum professionals would now call deaccessioning considers the intellectual and technical requirement of classifying objects in museums, and suggests that a deeper understanding of past museum practice can inform mission-driven contemporary museum work
UR  - https://doi.org/10.1515/9781800730533?locatt=mode:legacy
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9781800730533
UR  - https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9781800730533/original
ER  -