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1 online resource : illustrations |
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Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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Online resource; title from PDF title page (ProQuest Ebook Central, viewed November 8, 2021). |
| Summary |
Mobile Museums presents an argument for the importance of circulation in the study of museum collections, past and present. |
| Contents |
Introduction: mobilising and re-mobilising museum collections -- 1 Plant artefacts then and now: reconnecting biocultural collections in Amazonia -- 2 Re-mobilising colonial collections in decolonial times: exploring the latent possibilities of N. W. Thomas's West African collections -- 3 Circuits of accumulation and loss: intersecting natural histories of the 1928 USDA New Guinea Sugarcane Expedition's collections -- 4 Kew's mobile museum: economic botany in circulation -- 5 Illustrating anthropological knowledge: texts, images and duplicate specimens at the Smithsonian Institution and Pitt Rivers Museum -- 6 Expeditionary collections: Haslar Hospital Museum and the circulation of public knowledge, 1815-1855 |
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7 Mobile botany: education, horticulture and commerce in New York botanical gardens, 1890s-1930s -- 8 Plants on the move: Kew Gardens and the London schoolroom -- 9 Circulations of paradise (or, how to use a specimen to best personal advantage) -- 10 Circulation as negotiation and loss: Egyptian antiquities from British excavations, 1880-present -- 11 Colonising memory: Indigenous heritage and community engagement -- 12 The flow of things: mobilising museum collections of nineteenth-century Fijian liku (fibre skirts) and veiqia (female tattooing) -- Afterword: what goes around, comes around -- mobility's modernity -- Index. |
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Museums -- Collection management.
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Museum exhibits.
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Musées -- Gestion des collections.
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Objets exposés.
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collections management.
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Museum exhibits
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Museums -- Collection management
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| Added Author |
Driver, Felix, editor.
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| Other Form: |
Print version: Mobile museums. London : UCL Press, 2021 9781787355149 (OCoLC)1202053067 |
| ISBN |
9781787355262 (electronic bk.) |
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1787355268 (electronic bk.) |
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9781787355088 (electronic bk.) |
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178735508X (electronic bk.) |
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1787355144 |
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9781787355149 |
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1787355209 |
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9781787355200 |
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9781787355323 (Kindle ebook) |
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1787355322 |
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AU@ 000069107861 |
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UKMGB 020098402 |
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AU@ 000070045164 |
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AU@ 000069063411 |
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AU@ 000069142152 |
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AU@ 000074060590 |
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