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Reassembling Ethnographic Museum Collections
This volume addresses fundamental questions about the nature, value, and efficacy of museum collections in a postcolonial world and the agency of indigenous people in their production. The book’s primary focus lies with those objects that, by way of their specific histories, have been defined as “ethnographic”; however, the question of the contexts in which things are defined as “art” as oppose...
متن کاملThe Cleveland Museum of Natural History
A small sample of hyracoid fossils from the late Miocene (,6.1 Ma) deposits at Lemudong’o, Narok, Kenya, belong to Dendrohyrax. This genus was unknown in the fossil record until recently, when almost simultaneously it was discovered at Lukeino (6 Ma) and Lemudong’o, both in Kenya. The fossils from Lemudong’o belong to a small species of the genus, not very different from Dendrohyrax validus. Th...
متن کاملThe Cleveland Museum of Natural History
The Cleveland Museum of Natural History’s skull of a small tyrannosaurid theropod dinosaur (CMNH 7541) collected from the Hell Creek Formation has sparked controversy, with competing hypotheses suggesting that it represents a separate taxon of dwarf tyrannosaurid (Nanotyrannus lancensis), a juvenile specimen of Tyrannosaurus rex (the only other acknowledged Hell Creek tyrannosaurid), or a compr...
متن کاملThe Cleveland Museum of Natural History
Arthrodires were predatory vertebrates of the Devonian seas, with simple lower jaws conducible to examination of feeding across growth, evolution, and local diversity. 2D finite element analyses (FEA) of arthrodire mandibles (scaled to equivalent length and force, and checked against a 3D control), and a new method of stress integration, enable extensive comparisons of bite stress. FEA indicate...
متن کاملThe Ethnographic Museum as Distributive Institution
Introduction In a series of lectures given at Oxford University this year, we introduced our students to the history of ethnographic museums, with the Pitt Rivers Museum on our doorstep as a highly significant exemplar of the relationship between academic anthropology, colonial-period collecting and the role of objects in constructions of culture. In looking back to the nineteenth and twentieth...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Museum Anthropology Review
سال: 2020
ISSN: 1938-5145
DOI: 10.14434/mar.v14i1-2.29070