Dividing the spoils : perspectives on military collections and the British empire /: perspectives on military collections and the British empire. (2020)

• Record Type: Book
• Further Information: Note: Edited by Henrietta Lidchi, Stuart Allan.
• Editors: Lidchi, Henrietta; Allan, Stuart, 1962-
• Contents: Introduction: dividing the spoils – Henrietta Lidchi and Stuart Allan Part I Ideologies of empire and governance 1 Spoils of war: custom and practice – Edward M. Spiers2 The agency of objects: a contrasting choreography of flags, military booty and skulls from late nineteenth-century Africa – John Mack3 Collecting and the trophy – John M. MacKenzie Part II Military collecting cultures 4 Soldiering archaeology: Pitt Rivers and collecting ‘Primitive Warfare’ – Christopher Evans5 The officers’ mess: an anthropology and history of the military interior – Lt Col Charles Kirke (Rtd) and Nicole M. Hartwell6 Seeing Tibet through soldiers’ eyes: photograph albums in regimental museums – Henrietta Lidchi with Rosanna Nicolson7 A regimental culture of collecting – Desmond Thomas Part III The afterlives of military collections 8 Military histories of ‘Summer Palace’ objects from China in military museums in the United Kingdom – Louise Tythacott9 Indigenising folk art: eighteenth-century powder horns in British military collections – Stuart Allan and Henrietta Lidchi10 Community consultation and shaping of the National Army Museum’s Insight gallery – Alastair Massie11 Mementoes of power and conquest: Sikh jewellery in the collection of National Museums Scotland – Friederike Voigt Afterword: material reckonings with military histories – Henrietta Lidchi Archival sourcesBibliographyIndex
• Publisher Details: Manchester : Manchester University Press
• Publication Date: 2020
• Extent: 1 online resource, illustrations (black and white)
• Subjects: 306.470941; Cultural property -- Repatriation; Great Britain -- Colonies; Great Britain -- Cultural policy
• Languages: English
• ISBNs: 9781526139221; 9781526139214
• Related ISBNs: 9781526139207
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