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UNINA9910512202803321 |
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Titolo |
Mobile Museums : collections in circulation / / edited by Felix Driver, Mark Nesbitt, Caroline Cornish |
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London : , : UCL Press, , 2021 |
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Descrizione fisica |
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1 online resource (xx, 352 pages) : illustrations |
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Materiale a stampa |
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Monografia |
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Note generali |
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Nota di contenuto |
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Introduction: mobilising and re-mobilising museum collections -- 1 Plant artefacts then and now: reconnecting biocultural collections in Amazonia -- 2 Re-mobilising colonial collections in decolonial times: exploring the latent possibilities of N. W. Thomas's West African collections -- 3 Circuits of accumulation and loss: intersecting natural histories of the 1928 USDA New Guinea Sugarcane Expedition's collections -- 4 Kew's mobile museum: economic botany in circulation -- 5 Illustrating anthropological knowledge: texts, images and duplicate specimens at the Smithsonian Institution and Pitt Rivers Museum -- 6 Expeditionary collections: Haslar Hospital Museum and the circulation of public knowledge, 1815-1855 7 Mobile botany: education, horticulture and commerce in New York botanical gardens, 1890s-1930s -- 8 Plants on the move: Kew Gardens and the London schoolroom -- 9 Circulations of paradise (or, how to use a specimen to best personal advantage) -- 10 Circulation as negotiation and loss: Egyptian antiquities from British excavations, 1880-present -- 11 Colonising memory: Indigenous heritage and community engagement -- 12 The flow of things: mobilising museum collections of nineteenth-century Fijian liku (fibre skirts) and veiqia (female tattooing) -- Afterword: what goes around, comes around mobility's modernity -- Index. |
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Mobile Museums presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present. |
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