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Genre/Form: | Electronic books |
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Additional Physical Format: | Print version: Mobile museums. London : UCL Press, 2021 (OCoLC)1202053067 |
Material Type: | Document, Internet resource |
Document Type: | Internet Resource, Computer File |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Felix Driver |
ISBN: | 9781787355262 1787355268 9781787355088 178735508X 9781787355323 1787355322 |
OCLC Number: | 1246625941 |
Description: | 1 online resource : illustrations |
Contents: | 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. |
Responsibility: | edited by Felix Driver, Mark Nesbitt and Caroline Cornish. |
Abstract:
Mobile Museums presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present.
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