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Catherine A. Nichols

Exchanging Objects

Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution

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As an historical account of the exchange of duplicate specimens between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local institutions, created through the exchange of museum objects. It explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as duplicate specimens, making them potential candidates for exchange. This historical form of what museum professionals would now call deaccessioning considers the intellectual and technical requirement of classifying… Mehr

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Produktdetails


  • ISBN: 978-1-80073-053-3
  • EAN: 9781800730533
  • Produktnummer: 34907695
  • Verlag: Berghahn Books
  • Sprache: Englisch
  • Erscheinungsjahr: 2021
  • Seitenangabe: 268 S.
  • Plattform: EPUB
  • Auflage: 1. Auflage
  • Reihenbandnummer: 12

Über den Autor


Catherine A. Nichols is an Advanced Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies at Loyola University Chicago, where she serves as Director and Curator of the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection. Previously she was the Assistant Curator at Arizona State University's Museum of Anthropology. Her work on exchanges at the Smithsonian Institution and Field Museum has been published in Museum Anthropology, Museum and Society, and History and Anthropology. In addition to curatorial work, she is currently developing critical digital projects with museum databases and archival systems.

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