Knowing Things
Subtitle: Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 1884-1945
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA; Oxford University Press
Published: January 11, 2008
Language: eng
Format: Hardcover
Number of pages: 296
ISBN-13: 9780199225897
Subjects: Museums & Museology; History; History - General History; History: World; Oxfordshire; Europe - Great Britain - General; History / General; General; Pitt Rivers Museum.
Description: "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."--BOOK JACKET.