Dividing the spoils (eBook, ePUB)

Perspectives on military collections and the British empire
Redaktion: Lidchi, Henrietta; Allan, Stuart

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

At a time of heightened international interest in the colonial dimensions of museum collections, Dividing the Spoils provides new perspectives on the motivations and circumstances whereby collections were appropriated and acquired during colonial military service. Combining approaches from the fields of material anthropology, imperial and military history, this book argues for a deeper examination of these collections within a range of intercultural histories that include alliance, diplomacy, curiosity and enquiry, as well as expropriation and cultural hegemony. As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, Dividing the Spoils explores how the amassing of objects was understood and governed in British military culture, and considers how objects functioned in museum collections thereafter, suggesting new avenues for sustained investigation in a controversial, contested field.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: University of Pennsylvania Press, Inc.
• Seitenzahl: 344
• Erscheinungstermin: 29. September 2020
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781526139221
• Artikelnr.: 60197913

Autorenporträt

Henrietta Lidchi is Chief Curator at the National Museum van Wereldculturen, Netherlands, and a Research Fellow at National Museums Scotland Stuart Allan is Keeper of Scottish History and Archaeology at National Museums Scotland

Inhaltsangabe

Introduction: dividing the spoils - Henrietta Lidchi and Stuart Allan Part
I Ideologies of empire and governance 1 Spoils of war: custom and practice
- Edward M. Spiers 2 The agency of objects: a contrasting choreography of
flags, military booty and skulls from late nineteenth-century Africa -
John Mack 3 Collecting and the trophy - John M. MacKenzie Part II Military
collecting cultures 4 Soldiering archaeology: Pitt Rivers and collecting
'Primitive Warfare' - Christopher Evans 5 The officers' mess: an
anthropology and history of the military interior - Lt Col Charles Kirke
(Rtd) and Nicole M. Hartwell 6 Seeing Tibet through soldiers' eyes:
photograph albums in regimental museums - Henrietta Lidchi with Rosanna
Nicolson 7 A regimental culture of collecting - Desmond Thomas Part III The
afterlives of military collections 8 Military histories of 'Summer Palace'
objects from China in military museums in the United Kingdom - Louise
Tythacott 9 Indigenising folk art: eighteenth-century powder horns in
British military collections - Stuart Allan and Henrietta Lidchi 10
Community consultation and shaping of the National Army Museum's Insight
gallery - Alastair Massie 11 Mementoes of power and conquest: Sikh
jewellery in the collection of National Museums Scotland - Friederike Voigt
Afterword: material reckonings with military histories - Henrietta Lidchi
Archival sources Bibliography Index