Weapons, Culture and the Anthropology Museum

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  • Weapons, Culture and the Anthropology Museum Book Detail

  • Author : Tom Crowley
  • Release Date : 2018-04-18
  • Publisher : Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Genre : Social Science
  • Pages : 266
  • ISBN 13 : 1527510484
  • File Size : 69,69 MB
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Weapons, Culture and the Anthropology Museum by Tom Crowley PDF Summary

Book Description: 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 society’s 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.

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