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Margaret Mead as a Museum Anthropologist
Author(s) -
Thomas David Hurst
Publication year - 1980
Publication title -
american anthropologist
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.51
H-Index - 85
eISSN - 1548-1433
pISSN - 0002-7294
DOI - 10.1525/aa.1980.82.2.02a00080
Subject(s) - manus , ethnography , exhibition , new guinea , anthropology , sociology , history , media studies , art history , archaeology , ethnology , anatomy , medicine
Margaret Mead's museum‐related activities involved establishment of a sizable ethnographic collection (particularly during her fieldwork on Manus and in New Guinea), exhibition of these artifacts in her Peoples of the Pacific Hall, and an active concern with conservation and restoration of overall ethnographic research collections. Her attitude toward museums reflected a characteristic blend of the pragmatic and the intensely personal.