Mobile museums : collections in circulation /: collections in circulation. (2021)

• Record Type: Book
• 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 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 ;
• 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
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