Weapons, culture and the anthropology museum /
Largely due to the tastes of nineteenth century Western collectors and curators, weaponry abounds in ethnographic museums. However, the relative absence of Asian, African, Native American and Oceanic arms and armour from contemporary gallery displays neither reflects this fact, nor accords these imp...
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| Format: | Licensed eBooks |
| Language: | English |
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Newcastle upon Tyne, UK :
Cambridge Scholars Publishing,
2018.
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| Online Access: | https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1794052 |
| Summary: | Largely due to the tastes of nineteenth century Western collectors and curators, weaponry abounds in ethnographic museums. However, the relative absence of Asian, African, Native American and Oceanic arms and armour from contemporary gallery displays neither reflects this fact, nor accords these important artefacts the attention they deserve. Weapons are often those objects in museums which most strongly record traumatic histories of colonial conquest around the world, showcase a society's most complex technologies, and encode a wealth of historical information relating to violent conflict, cu. |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (ix, 256 pages) : illustrations |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781527503755 1527503755 1527510484 9781527510487 |