The Museum of Mankind : : Man and Boy in the British Museum Ethnography Department / / Ben Burt.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2019
• VerfasserIn: Burt, Ben,
• Place / Publishing House: New York ;, Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2019]; ©2019
• Year of Publication: 2019
• Language: English
• Series: Museums and Collections ; 12
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (172 p.)

The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from around the non-Western world from 1970 to 1997. This memoir is a critical appreciation of its achievements in the various roles of a national museum, of the personalities of its staff and of the issues raised in the representation of exotic cultures. Issues of changing museum theory and practice are raised in a detailed case-study that also focuses on the social life of the museum community. This is the first history of a remarkable museum and a memorable interlude in the long history of one of the world’s oldest and greatest museums. Although not presented as an academic study, it should be useful for museum and cultural studies as a well as a wider readership interested in the British Museum.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- CONTENTS -- ILLUSTRATIONS -- ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS -- INTRODUCTION -- ONE. FROM BRITISH MUSEUM TO MUSEUM OF MANKIND -- TWO. COLLEAGUES AND FRIENDS -- THREE. EXHIBITIONS -- FOUR. THE STORES -- FIVE. RESEARCH AND COLLECTING -- SIX. EDUCATION -- SEVEN: BACK TO THE BRITISH MUSEUM -- EPILOGUE -- APPENDIX. ETHNOGRAPHY DEPARTMENT EXHIBITIONS, 1970 TO 2003 -- REFERENCES -- INDEX