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The anthropology of expeditions : travel, visualities, afterlives /
"In the West at the turn of the twentieth century, public understanding of science and the world was shaped in part by expeditions to Asia, North America, and the Pacific. The Anthropology of Expeditions draws together contributions from anthropologists and historians of science to explore the...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York :
Bard Graduate Center,
[2015]
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| Colección: | Bard Graduate Center cultural histories of the material world.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction : the anthropology of expeditions / Erin L. Hasinoff and Joshua A. Bell
- Science as adventure / Henrika Kuklick
- A most singular and solitary expeditionist : Berthold Laufer collecting China / Laurel Kendall
- Adventurers : race, love, and the transmutation of souls in Joseph Rock's Arnold Arboretum Expedition to Gansu / Erik Mueggler
- In the field/En plein air : the art of anthropological display at the American Museum of Natural History, 1905-30 / Ira Jacknis
- Sculpting the network : recognizing Marguerite Milward's sculptural legacy / Mark Elliott
- The sticky afterlives of "sweet" things : performances and silences of the 1928 USDA Sugarcane Expedition collections / Joshua A. Bell
- The unexpected afterlives of Himalayan collections : from data cemetery to Web portal / Mark Turin
- Afterword / Chris Gosden.