Knowing Things: Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 1884-1945

Gosden, Chris; Larson, Frances

ISBN 10: 0199225893 / ISBN 13: 9780199225897

Published by Oxford University Press, 2008

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Bought new, a few sparse pencil markings, stamp on first page but other than that, clean throughout.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Knowing Things: Exploring the Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum 1884-1945
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Publication Date: 2008
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0199225893
• ISBN 13: 9780199225897
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Condition: Very Good
• Dimensions: 6.3W x 9.3H x 0.7D inches 6.3 inches width by 9.3 inches height by 0.7 inches depth
• Weight: 1.349 pounds

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Synopsis

This book explores the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum and its collections. Thousands of people collected objects for the Museum between its foundation in 1884 and 1945, and they, and the objects they collected, provide a series of insights into the early history of archaeology and anthropology, as well as a snapshot of the British empire.

About the Author

Chris Gosden has worked in the Pitt Rivers Museum since 1994 as a curator/lecturer, having previously held a lectureship at La Trobe University Melbourne. He has just been elected Professor of European Archaeology, Oxford. He has carried out fieldwork in Papua New Guinea, Turkmenistan and various parts of Europe. He has published on museum collections, archaeology and colonialism and the links between archaeology and anthropology. He is currently starting a project on Englishness and one on late Iron Age art.

Frances Larson completed a D. Phil. on the collection of Sir Henry Wellcome, which she is now writing up as a book. She continues to carry out research on the history of anthropology, museums and material culture.