The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions
Author: Adam Kuper Format: Paperback Number of Pages: 432 'A formidable work' - Nigel Barley, author of The Innocent Anthropologist 'Should be required reading' - Richard Lambert, Financial Times 'A magnificent, moving survey' - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto, TLS This is a history of the ways in which foreign and prehistoric peoples were represented in museums of anthropology, with their displays of arts and artifacts, their dioramas, their special exhibitions, and their arrays of skulls and skeletons. Originally created as colonial enterprises,...
The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions