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Weapons, Culture and the Anthropology Museum

Author : Tom Crowley
Publisher :
ISBN 13 : 9781527503755
Total Pages : 256 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (37 download)

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Download or read book Weapons, Culture and the Anthropology Museum written by Tom Crowley and published by . This book was released on 2018 with total page 256 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 societys most complex technologies, and encode a wealth of historical information relating to violent conflict, cultural identities, and indigenous masculinities. This volume brings together an international collective of museum professionals, indigenous cultural historians, anthropologists and material culture specialists to address the historical role of weapon collections in ethnographic museums, and to reconsider the value of studying arms for the purposes of writing richer cultural histories. From Australia to the Amazon, from Uttar Pradesh to ancient Ulster, the essays in this book endeavour to return ethnographic weapons to the centre of material culture studies. In doing so, they offer a blueprint for a more sophisticated future treatment of world weaponry.

The History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia

Author : Adrien Gabriel Morice
Publisher : Toronto, William Briggs
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 440 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book The History of the Northern Interior of British Columbia written by Adrien Gabriel Morice and published by Toronto, William Briggs. This book was released on 1905 with total page 440 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Transatlantic Sketches

Author : Sir James Edward Alexander
Publisher : Philadelphia : Key and Biddle
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 386 pages
Book Rating : 4.:/5 (334 download)

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Download or read book Transatlantic Sketches written by Sir James Edward Alexander and published by Philadelphia : Key and Biddle. This book was released on 1833 with total page 386 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Valley of the Mississippi Illustrated

Author : Henry Lewis
Publisher : St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 616 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Valley of the Mississippi Illustrated written by Henry Lewis and published by St. Paul : Minnesota Historical Society. This book was released on 1967 with total page 616 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

the american indian frontier

Author : william christie macleod
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 586 pages
Book Rating : 4./5 ( download)

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Download or read book the american indian frontier written by william christie macleod and published by . This book was released on 1928 with total page 586 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Mobile Museums

Author : Felix Driver
Publisher : UCL Press
ISBN 13 : 178735508X
Total Pages : 372 pages
Book Rating : 4.7/5 (873 download)

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Download or read book Mobile Museums written by Felix Driver and published by UCL Press. This book was released on 2021-04-19 with total page 372 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Mobile Museums presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present. It brings together an impressive array of international scholars and curators from a wide variety of disciplines – including the history of science, museum anthropology and postcolonial history - to consider the mobility of collections. The book combines historical perspectives on the circulation of museum objects in the past with contemporary accounts of their re-mobilisation, notably in the context of Indigenous community engagement. Contributors seek to explore processes of circulation historically in order to re-examine, inform and unsettle common assumptions about the way museum collections have evolved over time and through space. By foregrounding questions of circulation, the chapters in Mobile Museums collectively represent a fundamental shift in the understanding of the history and future uses of museum collections. The book addresses a variety of different types of collection, including the botanical, the ethnographic, the economic and the archaeological. Its perspective is truly global, with case studies drawn from South America, West Africa, Oceania, Australia, the United States, Europe and the UK. Mobile Museums helps us to understand why the mobility of museum collections was a fundamental aspect of their history and why it continues to matter today. Praise for Mobile Museums 'This book advances a paradigm shift in studies of museums and collections. A distinguished group of contributors reveal that collections are not dead assemblages. The nineteenth and twentieth centuries were marked by vigorous international traffic in ethnography and natural history specimens that tell us much about colonialism, travel and the history of knowledge – and have implications for the remobilisation of museums in the future.’ – Nicholas Thomas, University of Cambridge 'The first major work to examine the implications and consequences of the migration of materials from one scientific or cultural milieu to another, it highlights the need for a more nuanced understanding of collections and offers insights into their potential for future re-mobilisation.' – Arthur MacGregor

British Policy Towards the Amerindians in British Guiana, 1803-1873

Author : Mary Noel Menezes
Publisher : Oxford : Oxford University Press
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 348 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book British Policy Towards the Amerindians in British Guiana, 1803-1873 written by Mary Noel Menezes and published by Oxford : Oxford University Press. This book was released on 1977 with total page 348 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Pictographs of the North American Indians

Author : Garrick Mallery
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 814 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Pictographs of the North American Indians written by Garrick Mallery and published by . This book was released on 1886 with total page 814 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Book of the Sword

Author : Sir Richard Francis Burton
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 352 pages
Book Rating : 4.R/5 (5 download)

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Download or read book The Book of the Sword written by Sir Richard Francis Burton and published by . This book was released on 1884 with total page 352 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms

Author : F. Kent Reilly
Publisher : University of Texas Press
ISBN 13 : 0292774400
Total Pages : 312 pages
Book Rating : 4.2/5 (927 download)

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Download or read book Ancient Objects and Sacred Realms written by F. Kent Reilly and published by University of Texas Press. This book was released on 2010-01-01 with total page 312 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Between AD 900-1600, the native peoples of the Mississippi River Valley and other areas of the Eastern Woodlands of the United States conceived and executed one of the greatest artistic traditions of the Precolumbian Americas. Created in the media of copper, shell, stone, clay, and wood, and incised or carved with a complex set of symbols and motifs, this seven-hundred-year-old artistic tradition functioned within a multiethnic landscape centered on communities dominated by earthen mounds and plazas. Previous researchers have referred to this material as the Southeastern Ceremonial Complex (SECC). This groundbreaking volume brings together ten essays by leading anthropologists, archaeologists, and art historians, who analyze the iconography of Mississippian art in order to reconstruct the ritual activities, cosmological vision, and ideology of these ancient precursors to several groups of contemporary Native Americans. Significantly, the authors correlate archaeological, ethnographic, and art historical data that illustrate the stylistic differences within Mississippian art as well as the numerous changes that occur through time. The research also demonstrates the inadequacy of the SECC label, since Mississippian art is not limited to the Southeast and reflects stylistic changes over time among several linked but distinct religious traditions. The term Mississippian Iconographic Interaction Sphere (MIIS) more adequately describes the corpus of this Mississippian art. Most important, the authors illustrate the overarching nature of the ancient Native American religious system, as a creation unique to the native American cultures of the eastern United States.

The Myths of the North American Indians

Author : Lewis Spence
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 490 pages
Book Rating : 4.3/5 (91 download)

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Download or read book The Myths of the North American Indians written by Lewis Spence and published by . This book was released on 1914 with total page 490 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon

Author : William Lewis Herndon
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 460 pages
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Download or read book Exploration of the Valley of the Amazon written by William Lewis Herndon and published by . This book was released on 1853 with total page 460 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific

Author : Antony Hooper
Publisher : ANU E Press
ISBN 13 : 192094222X
Total Pages : 243 pages
Book Rating : 4.9/5 (29 download)

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Download or read book Culture and Sustainable Development in the Pacific written by Antony Hooper and published by ANU E Press. This book was released on 2005-04-01 with total page 243 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Throughout the South Pacific, notions of ‘culture’ and ‘development’ are very much alive—in political debate, the media, sermons, and endless discussions amongst villagers and the urban élites, even in policy reports. Often the terms are counterposed, and development along with ‘economic rationality’, ‘good governance’ and ‘progress’ is set against culture or ‘custom’, ‘tradition’ and ‘identity’. The decay of custom and impoverishment of culture are often seen as wrought by development, while failures of development are haunted by the notion that they are due, somehow, to the darker, irrational influences of culture. The problem is to resolve the contradictions between them so as to achieve the greater good—access to material goods, welfare and amenities, ‘modern life’—without the sacrifice of the ‘traditional’ values and institutions that provide material security and sustain diverse social identities. Resolution is sought in this book by a number of leading writers from the South Pacific including Langi Kavaliku, Epeli Hau’ofa, Marshall Sahlins, Malama Meleisea, Joeli Veitayaki, and Tarcisius Tara Kabutaulaka. The volume is brought together for UNESCO by Antony Hooper, Professor Emeritus at the University of Auckland. UNESCO experts include Richard Engelhardt, Langi Kavaliku, Russell Marshall, Malama Meleisea, Edna Tait and Mali Voi.

The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands

Author : Jesse Walter Fewkes
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 608 pages
Book Rating : 4.F/5 ( download)

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Download or read book The Aborigines of Porto Rico and Neighboring Islands written by Jesse Walter Fewkes and published by . This book was released on 1907 with total page 608 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Dark Shamans

Author : Neil L. Whitehead
Publisher : Duke University Press
ISBN 13 : 0822384302
Total Pages : 325 pages
Book Rating : 4.8/5 (223 download)

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Download or read book Dark Shamans written by Neil L. Whitehead and published by Duke University Press. This book was released on 2002-10-07 with total page 325 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: On the little-known and darker side of shamanism there exists an ancient form of sorcery called kanaimà, a practice still observed among the Amerindians of the highlands of Guyana, Venezuela, and Brazil that involves the ritual stalking, mutilation, lingering death, and consumption of human victims. At once a memoir of cultural encounter and an ethnographic and historical investigation, this book offers a sustained, intimate look at kanaimà, its practitioners, their victims, and the reasons they give for their actions. Neil L. Whitehead tells of his own involvement with kanaimà—including an attempt to kill him with poison—and relates the personal testimonies of kanaimà shamans, their potential victims, and the victims’ families. He then goes on to discuss the historical emergence of kanaimà, describing how, in the face of successive modern colonizing forces—missionaries, rubber gatherers, miners, and development agencies—the practice has become an assertion of native autonomy. His analysis explores the ways in which kanaimà mediates both national and international impacts on native peoples in the region and considers the significance of kanaimà for current accounts of shamanism and religious belief and for theories of war and violence. Kanaimà appears here as part of the wider lexicon of rebellious terror and exotic horror—alongside the cannibal, vampire, and zombie—that haunts the western imagination. Dark Shamans broadens discussions of violence and of the representation of primitive savagery by recasting both in the light of current debates on modernity and globalization.

Southern Literature from 1579-1895

Author : Louise Manly
Publisher :
ISBN 13 :
Total Pages : 548 pages
Book Rating : 4.A/5 ( download)

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Download or read book Southern Literature from 1579-1895 written by Louise Manly and published by . This book was released on 1895 with total page 548 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

The Gift of Black Folk

Author : W. E. B. Du Bois
Publisher : Open Road Media
ISBN 13 : 1504064208
Total Pages : 245 pages
Book Rating : 4.5/5 (4 download)

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Download or read book The Gift of Black Folk written by W. E. B. Du Bois and published by Open Road Media. This book was released on 2020-07-28 with total page 245 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: A look at African Americans’ contributions to the United States by the iconic leader whose life spanned from the Civil War to the civil rights movement. The first African American to earn a doctorate from Harvard and a cofounder of the NAACP, W. E. B. Du Bois remains a towering figure in US history. In The Gift of Black Folk, he celebrates Black Americans’ struggle for equality—a battle that would continue long after slavery was abolished—and in the ongoing pursuit of a more perfect union. As explorers, laborers, soldiers, artists, slaves, freedmen, and citizens, these individuals played an essential part in the unique conglomerate that is the United States, and their remarkable, often unsung history is conveyed in this classic work.