Museum Networks: The Exchange of the Smithsonian Institution's Duplicate Anthropology Collections

Museum Networks: The Exchange of the Smithsonian Institution's Duplicate Anthropology Collections

abstract: This dissertation examines a practice of scientific museums in the 19th and early 20th centuries: the exchange of their duplicate specimens. Specimen exchange facilitated the rise of universal museums while creating a transnational network through which objects, knowledge, and museum pract...

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Other Authors: Nichols, Catherine Anitra (Author)
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: 2014
Subjects:
Cultural anthropology
Museum studies
History of science
collections
collections management
exchange
material culture
museum
Smithsonian Institution
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.25179

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http://hdl.handle.net/2286/R.I.25179

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