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Knowing Things: Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 1884-1945 (Hardcover, New)
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Knowing Things: Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 1884-1945 (Hardcover, New)
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This book explores the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum and
its collections. Many thousands of people collected objects for the
Museum between its foundation in 1884 and 1945, and together they
and the objects they collected provide a series of insights into
the early history of archaeology and anthropology. The volume also
includes individual biographies and group histories of the people
originally making and using the objects, as well as a snapshot of
the British empire. The main focus for the book derives from the
computerized catalogues of the Museum and attendant archival
information. Together these provide a unique insight into the
growth of a well-known institution and its place within broader
intellectual frameworks of the Victorian period and early twentieth
century. It also explores current ideas on the nature of
relationships, particularly those between people and things.
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