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The inspiring story of five women who set out to explore the
furthest reaches of the globe and redefine scholarship At the dawn
of the twentieth century, Katherine Routledge, Maria Czaplicka,
Winifred Blackman, Beatrice Blackwood and Barbara Freire-Marreco
set out to explore the furthest reaches of the globe. Resisting
pernicious sexism and misogyny, they were among the first women to
study at university and went on to chart now-vanished worlds,
seeking new freedoms in in the wastelands of Siberia, the uncharted
interior of New Guinea, on Easter Island, and in the villages of
the Nile. Yet upon their return to England, they found only loss,
madness and regret waiting for them. An extraordinary insight into
women's suffrage at the turn of the century and a revelatory study
of Britain's colonial legacy, Undreamed Shores is an extraordinary
portrait of a pioneering quintet whose struggles helped usher in a
brighter dawn.
Our history is littered with heads. Over the centuries, they have
decorated our churches, festooned our city walls and filled our
museums; they have been props for artists and specimens for
laboratory scientists, trophies for soldiers and items of barter.
Today, as videos of decapitations circulate online and cryonicists
promise that our heads may one day live on without our bodies, the
severed head is as contentious and compelling as ever. From
shrunken heads to trophies of war; from memento mori to Damien
Hirst's With Dead Head; from grave-robbing phrenologists to
enterprising scientists, Larson explores the bizarre, often
gruesome and confounding history of the severed head. Its story is
our story.
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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