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The Museum of Mankind : Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department / Ben Burt.

By: Material type: TextTextSeries: Museums and Collections ; 12Publisher: New York ; Oxford : Berghahn Books, [2019]Copyright date: ©2019Description: 1 online resource (172 p.)Content type:
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ISBN:
  • 9781789203028
  • 9781789203035
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 305.80074 23/eng/20230216
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  • online - DeGruyter
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Contents:
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
Summary: 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.
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eBook eBook Biblioteca "Angelicum" Pont. Univ. S.Tommaso d'Aquino Nuvola online online - DeGruyter (Browse shelf(Opens below)) Online access Not for loan (Accesso limitato) Accesso per gli utenti autorizzati / Access for authorized users (dgr)9781789203035

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

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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.

Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web.

In English.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 25. Jun 2024)

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