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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Další autoři: Crowley, Tom (Editor)
Médium: Licensed eBooks
Jazyk:angličtina
Vydáno: Newcastle upon Tyne, UK : Cambridge Scholars Publishing, 2018.
On-line přístup:https://search.ebscohost.com/login.aspx?direct=true&scope=site&db=nlebk&AN=1794052
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Shrnutí: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.
Fyzický popis:1 online resource (ix, 256 pages) : illustrations
Bibliografie:Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:9781527503755
1527503755
1527510484
9781527510487