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Exchanging Objects - Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution (Hardcover)
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Exchanging Objects - Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution (Hardcover)
Series: Museums and Collections
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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.
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