Objects of Culture
Subtitle: Ethnology and Ethnographic Museums in Imperial Germany
Publisher: The University of North Carolina Press
Published: January 17, 2007
Language: eng
Format: Paperback
Number of pages: 272
ISBN-13: 9780807854303
Subjects: Ethnography; c 1800 to c 1900; Europe - Germany; Ethnological museums and colle; Archaeology / Anthropology; History: World; Germany; Anthropology - Cultural; Collections, Catalogs, Exhibitions - Museum; History-Europe - Germany; Social Science / Ethnology; Social Science-Anthropology - Cultural; Ethnological museums and collections; Ethnology; History
First sentence: When Germany was founded in 1871 it possessed only scattered ethnographic collections, leftovers from princely treasure houses, forgotten items in curiosity cabinets, and the ill-gotten gains of adventurers.