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Museums and Collections: Exchanging Objects : Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution by Catherine A. Nichols (2025, Trade Paperback)

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Product Identifiers

PublisherBerghahn Books, Incorporated

ISBN-101836950691

ISBN-139781836950691

eBay Product ID (ePID)3073175918

Product Key Features

Number of Pages268 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication NameExchanging Objects : Nineteenth-Century Museum Anthropology at the Smithsonian Institution

Publication Year2025

SubjectMuseum Studies, Anthropology / General

TypeTextbook

AuthorCatherine A. Nichols

Subject AreaArt, Social Science

SeriesMuseums and Collections

FormatTrade Paperback

Dimensions

Item Length9 in

Item Width6 in

Additional Product Features

Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional

Reviews"This is an excellent and important contribution to scholarship...(Nichols) has also done a fine job of explaining how a focus on duplicate exchange transforms our entire (mis)understanding of museums as places only for accumulation and preservation." * Ira Jacknis, Phoebe A. Hearst Museum of Anthropology

Dewey Edition23

Series Volume Number12

IllustratedYes

Dewey Decimal069.5

Table Of ContentList 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

SynopsisAs an historical account of the exchange of "duplicate specimens" between anthropologists at the Smithsonian Institution and museums, collectors, and schools around the world in the late nineteenth century, this book reveals connections between both well-known museums and little-known local institutions, created through the exchange of museum objects. It explores how anthropologists categorized some objects in their collections as "duplicate specimens," making them potential candidates for exchange. This historical form of what museum professionals would now call deaccessioning considers the intellectual and technical requirement of classifying objects in museums, and suggests that a deeper understanding of past museum practice can inform mission-driven contemporary museum work.