Collecting, Ordering, Governing: Anthropology, Museums, and Liberal Government

by Nelia Dias, Conal McCarthy, Ben Dibley, et al.

Book Overview

The coauthors of this theoretically innovative work explore the relationships among anthropological fieldwork, museum collecting and display, and social governance in the early twentieth century in Australia, Britain, France, New Zealand, and the United States. With case studies ranging from the Musée de l'Homme's 1930s fieldwork missions in French Indo-China to the influence of Franz Boas's culture concept on the development of American museums,...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0822362686
• ISBN13: 9780822362685
• Release Date: January 2017
• Publisher: Duke University Press
• Length: 360 Pages
• Weight: 1.06 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.8" x 6.0" x 9.0"