Mobile museums : collections in circulation /: collections in circulation. (2021)
- Record Type:
- Book
- Title:
- Mobile museums : collections in circulation /: collections in circulation. (2021)
- Main Title:
- Mobile museums : collections in circulation
- Further Information:
- Note: Edited by Felix Driver, Mark Nesbitt, Caroline Cornish.
- Editors:
- Driver, Felix
Nesbitt, Mark, 1961-
Cornish, Caroline - Contents:
- List of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: mobilising and re-mobilising collections Felix Driver, Mark Nesbitt and Caroline Cornish ; 1.Plant artefacts then and now: reconnecting biocultural collections in Amazonia Luciana Martins ; 2.Re-mobilising colonial collections in decolonial times: exploring the latent possibilities of N. W. Thomas’ West African collections Paul Basu ; 3.Circuits of accumulation and loss: intersecting natural histories of the 1928 USDA New Guinea Sugarcane Expedition’s collections Joshua A. Bell ; 4.Kew’s mobile museum: economic botany in circulation Caroline Cornish, Felix Driver and Mark Nesbitt ; 5.Illustrating anthropological knowledge: texts, images and duplicate specimens at the Smithsonian Institution and Pitt Rivers Museum Catherine A. Nichols ; 6.Expeditionary collections: Haslar Hospital Museum and the circulation of public knowledge, 1815-1855 Daniel Simpson ; 7.Mobile botany: education, horticulture and commerce in New York botanical gardens, 1890s-1930s Sally Gregory Kohlstedt ; 8.Plants on the move: Kew Gardens and the London schoolroom Laura Newman ; 9.Circulations of paradise (or, how to use a specimen to best personal advantage) Jude Philp ; 10.Circulation as negotiation and loss: Egyptian antiquities from British excavations, 1880–present Alice Stevenson ; 11.Colonising memory: Indigenous heritage and community engagement Claudia Augustat ; 12.The flow of things: mobilising museumList of figures; List of tables; List of contributors; Acknowledgements ; Introduction: mobilising and re-mobilising collections Felix Driver, Mark Nesbitt and Caroline Cornish ; 1.Plant artefacts then and now: reconnecting biocultural collections in Amazonia Luciana Martins ; 2.Re-mobilising colonial collections in decolonial times: exploring the latent possibilities of N. W. Thomas’ West African collections Paul Basu ; 3.Circuits of accumulation and loss: intersecting natural histories of the 1928 USDA New Guinea Sugarcane Expedition’s collections Joshua A. Bell ; 4.Kew’s mobile museum: economic botany in circulation Caroline Cornish, Felix Driver and Mark Nesbitt ; 5.Illustrating anthropological knowledge: texts, images and duplicate specimens at the Smithsonian Institution and Pitt Rivers Museum Catherine A. Nichols ; 6.Expeditionary collections: Haslar Hospital Museum and the circulation of public knowledge, 1815-1855 Daniel Simpson ; 7.Mobile botany: education, horticulture and commerce in New York botanical gardens, 1890s-1930s Sally Gregory Kohlstedt ; 8.Plants on the move: Kew Gardens and the London schoolroom Laura Newman ; 9.Circulations of paradise (or, how to use a specimen to best personal advantage) Jude Philp ; 10.Circulation as negotiation and loss: Egyptian antiquities from British excavations, 1880–present Alice Stevenson ; 11.Colonising memory: Indigenous heritage and community engagement Claudia Augustat ; 12.The flow of things: mobilising museum collections of nineteenth-century Fijian liku (fibre skirts) and veiqia (female tattooing) Karen Jacobs ; Afterword: What goes around, comes around: mobility's modernity; Martha Fleming ; Index ; … (more)
- Edition:
- 1st
- Publisher Details:
- London : UCL Press
- Publication Date:
- 2021
- Extent:
- 1 online resource, illustrations (colour)
- Subjects:
- 069.5
Museums -- Collection management
Museum exhibits - Languages:
- English
- ISBNs:
- 9781787355262
9781787355323 - Related ISBNs:
- 9781787355200
9781787355149 - Notes:
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