TY  - GEN
T1  - Weapons, culture and the anthropology museum
A2  - Crowley, Tom
LA  - English
PP  - Newcastle upon Tyne, UK
PB  - Cambridge Scholars Publishing
YR  - 2018
UL  - https://ebooks.jgu.edu.in/Record/ebsco_acadsubs_on1031847621
AB  - 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.
OP  - 256
CN  - GN35 .W43 2018eb
SN  - 9781527503755
SN  - 1527503755
SN  - 1527510484
SN  - 9781527510487
KW  - Anthropological museums and collections.
KW  - Weapons.
KW  - Anthropologie : Musées et collections.
KW  - Armes.
KW  - weapons.
KW  - Anthropology.
KW  - Society & culture: general.
KW  - Museology & heritage studies.
KW  - POLITICAL SCIENCE : Public Policy : Cultural Policy.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Anthropology : Cultural.
KW  - SOCIAL SCIENCE : Popular Culture.
KW  - Anthropological museums and collections
KW  - Weapons
ER  -