Catherine A. Nichols

Exchanging Objects

Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution

• Broschiertes Buch

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Berghahn Books
• Seitenzahl: 268
• Erscheinungstermin: 1. Juli 2025
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781836950691
• ISBN-10: 1836950691
• Artikelnr.: 73468636

Autorenporträt

Catherine A. Nichols is an Advanced Lecturer in Cultural Anthropology and Museum Studies at Loyola University Chicago, where she serves as Director and Curator of the May Weber Ethnographic Study Collection. Previously she was the Assistant Curator at Arizona State University's Museum of Anthropology. Her work on exchanges at the Smithsonian Institution and Field Museum has been published in Museum Anthropology, Museum and Society , and History and Anthropology. In addition to curatorial work, she is currently developing critical digital projects with museum databases and archival systems.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Illustrations and Tables
List of Abbreviations
Chronology
Lists of Relevant Smithsonian Institution/USNM Personnel
Acknowledgements
Introduction: A Bowl's Journey, There and Back Again
Part I: The Museum Through the Lens of Specimen Exchange
Chapter 1. The Smithsonian and the Museum: Specimen Exchange as a Bridge
between Joseph Henry's Research Institution and Spencer Baird's Grand
Cabinet
Chapter 2. Spencer Baird's U.S. National Museum & Early Trends in
Exchanging Anthropological Duplicates (1861-1880)
Chapter 3. Networking the National Museum: Exchanging Anthropological
Duplicates (1882-1920)
Chapter 4. Giving & Receiving: Specimen Exchange Between Curators & the
Shaping of Anthropological Collections
Part II: The Duplicate
Chapter 5. Duplicates: Specimens in Motion
Chapter 6. Catalogs, Classification and Contingency: Designating Duplicates
Conclusion: Museum Pasts and Futures
Appendix
Bibliography
Index