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Weapons, Culture and the Anthropology Museum (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Weapons, Culture and the Anthropology Museum (Hardcover, Unabridged edition)
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Largely due to the tastes of nineteenth century Western collectors
and curators, weaponry abounds in ethnographic museums. However,
the relative absence of Asian, African, Native American and Oceanic
arms and armour from contemporary gallery displays neither reflects
this fact, nor accords these important artefacts the attention they
deserve. Weapons are often those objects in museums which most
strongly record traumatic histories of colonial conquest around the
world, showcase a society's most complex technologies, and encode a
wealth of historical information relating to violent conflict,
cultural identities, and indigenous masculinities. This volume
brings together an international collective of museum
professionals, indigenous cultural historians, anthropologists and
material culture specialists to address the historical role of
weapon collections in ethnographic museums, and to reconsider the
value of studying arms for the purposes of writing richer cultural
histories. From Australia to the Amazon, from Uttar Pradesh to
ancient Ulster, the essays in this book endeavour to return
ethnographic weapons to the centre of material culture studies. In
doing so, they offer a blueprint for a more sophisticated future
treatment of world weaponry.
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