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Description: Interior of the South Hall of the Horniman Museum

TitleInterior of the South Hall of the Horniman Museum

Creator nameUnknown

Creator nationality/cultureUnknown

Creator rolePhotographer

Creation datec. 1904

Object typePhotograph

MaterialsUnknown

LocationHorniman Museum, London

SubjectsMuseum exhibitsEthnological museums and collectionsMuseums--HistoryMaterial culture

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7. Containing the Continent: Ethnographies on Display

Annie E. Coombes

Description: Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late...

Reinventing Africa: Museums, Material Culture and Popular Imagination in Late Victorian and Edwardian England

~What place did the African continent occupy within the broader schemes of the ‘new museum idea’, promoted by that relatively new breed, the professional museum curator? What kind of knowledge was generated from the impetus to use ethnographic collections as the basis of an ‘objective’ education, and was such knowledge completely...

Author

Annie E. Coombes

PublisherYale University Press

Related print edition pages: pp.129-160

https://doi.org/10.37862/aaeportal.00307.8

Stable URL: https://aaeportal.com/?id=-22489&redirecttoanchor=78293

Chapter subject tags:Ethnological museums and collectionsMuseums--Great BritainRacism in anthropologyObjectification (Social psychology)Pitt Rivers MuseumGardiner, H. Balfour (Henry Balfour), 1877-1950

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