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Mobile museums : collections in circulation /
Mobile Museums presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present.
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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London :
UCL PRESS,
2021.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction: mobilising and re-mobilising museum collections
- 1 Plant artefacts then and now: reconnecting biocultural collections in Amazonia
- 2 Re-mobilising colonial collections in decolonial times: exploring the latent possibilities of N. W. Thomas's West African collections
- 3 Circuits of accumulation and loss: intersecting natural histories of the 1928 USDA New Guinea Sugarcane Expedition's collections
- 4 Kew's mobile museum: economic botany in circulation
- 5 Illustrating anthropological knowledge: texts, images and duplicate specimens at the Smithsonian Institution and Pitt Rivers Museum
- 6 Expeditionary collections: Haslar Hospital Museum and the circulation of public knowledge, 1815-1855
- 7 Mobile botany: education, horticulture and commerce in New York botanical gardens, 1890s-1930s
- 8 Plants on the move: Kew Gardens and the London schoolroom
- 9 Circulations of paradise (or, how to use a specimen to best personal advantage)
- 10 Circulation as negotiation and loss: Egyptian antiquities from British excavations, 1880-present
- 11 Colonising memory: Indigenous heritage and community engagement
- 12 The flow of things: mobilising museum collections of nineteenth-century Fijian liku (fibre skirts) and veiqia (female tattooing)
- Afterword: what goes around, comes around
- mobility's modernity
- Index.