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The Anthropology of Expeditions : Travel, Visualities, Afterlives.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Bard Graduate Center - Cultural Histories of the Material World SeriesPublisher: Chicago : Bard Graduate Center, Exhibitions Department, 2015Copyright date: ©2015Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (301 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781941792018
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: The Anthropology of ExpeditionsDDC classification:
  • 305.80074
LOC classification:
  • GN35
Online resources:
Contents:
Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Anthropology of Expeditions - Erin L. Hasinoff and Joshua A. Bell -- One. Science as Adventure - Henrika Kuklick -- Part One. Travel and Assemblage -- Two. A Most Singular and Solitary Expeditionist: Berthold Laufer Collecting China - Laurel Kendall -- Three. Adventurers: Race, Love, and the Transmutation of Souls in Joseph Rock's Arnold Arboretum Expedition to Gansu - Erik Mueggler -- Part Two. Visualities -- Four. In the Field/ En Plein Air: The Art of Anthropological Display at the American Museum of Natural History, 1905-30 - Ira Jacknis -- Five. Sculpting the Network: Recognizing Marguerite Milward's Sculptural Legacy - Mark Elliott -- Part Three. Afterlives and Reassemblage -- Six. The Sticky Afterlives of "Sweet" Things: Performances and Silences of the 1928 USDA Sugarcane Expedition Collections - Joshua A. Bell -- Seven. The Unexpected Afterlives of Himalayan Collections: From Data Cemetery to Web Portal - Mark Turin -- Afterword - Chris Gosden -- Contributors -- Index.
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Intro -- Contents -- Series Editor's Preface -- Acknowledgments -- Introduction: The Anthropology of Expeditions - Erin L. Hasinoff and Joshua A. Bell -- One. Science as Adventure - Henrika Kuklick -- Part One. Travel and Assemblage -- Two. A Most Singular and Solitary Expeditionist: Berthold Laufer Collecting China - Laurel Kendall -- Three. Adventurers: Race, Love, and the Transmutation of Souls in Joseph Rock's Arnold Arboretum Expedition to Gansu - Erik Mueggler -- Part Two. Visualities -- Four. In the Field/ En Plein Air: The Art of Anthropological Display at the American Museum of Natural History, 1905-30 - Ira Jacknis -- Five. Sculpting the Network: Recognizing Marguerite Milward's Sculptural Legacy - Mark Elliott -- Part Three. Afterlives and Reassemblage -- Six. The Sticky Afterlives of "Sweet" Things: Performances and Silences of the 1928 USDA Sugarcane Expedition Collections - Joshua A. Bell -- Seven. The Unexpected Afterlives of Himalayan Collections: From Data Cemetery to Web Portal - Mark Turin -- Afterword - Chris Gosden -- Contributors -- Index.

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Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

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