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Record Nr.

UNINA9910134822703321

Titolo

The anthropology of expeditions : travel, visualities, afterlives / / Joshua A. Bell and Erin L. Hasinoff, editors

Pubbl/distr/stampa

New York City : , : Bard Graduate Center, , 2015

©2015

ISBN

1-941792-01-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (301 p.)

Collana

Cultural Histories of the Material World

Disciplina

305.80074

Soggetti

Anthropological museums and collections

Anthropological archives

Scientific expeditions

Electronic books.

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Contents; Series Editor's Preface; Acknowledgments; Introduction: The Anthropology of Expeditions - Erin L. Hasinoff and Joshua A. Bell; One. Science as Adventure - Henrika Kuklick; Part One. Travel and Assemblage; Two. A Most Singular and Solitary Expeditionist: Berthold Laufer Collecting China - Laurel Kendall; Three. Adventurers: Race, Love, and the Transmutation of Souls in Joseph Rock's Arnold Arboretum Expedition to Gansu - Erik Mueggler; Part Two. Visualities

Four. In the Field/ En Plein Air: The Art of Anthropological Display at the American Museum of Natural History, 1905-30 - Ira JacknisFive. Sculpting the Network: Recognizing Marguerite Milward's Sculptural Legacy - Mark Elliott; Part Three. Afterlives and Reassemblage; Six. The Sticky Afterlives of "Sweet" Things: Performances and Silences of the 1928 USDA Sugarcane Expedition Collections - Joshua A. Bell; Seven. The Unexpected Afterlives of Himalayan Collections: From Data Cemetery to Web Portal - Mark Turin; Afterword - Chris Gosden; Contributors; Index