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Notes and Queries and the Pitt Rivers Museum
Author(s) -
Petch Alison
Publication year - 2007
Publication title -
museum anthropology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.197
H-Index - 15
eISSN - 1548-1379
pISSN - 0892-8339
DOI - 10.1525/mua.2007.30.1.21
Subject(s) - ethnography , anthropology , prism , history , material culture , sociology , optics , physics
This article examines the contribution that a major ethnographic museum, the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford, has made to the development of anthropology in the United Kingdom, through the prism of a seminal publication, Notes and Queries on Anthropology, which was published in several editions between 1874 and 1951. While Notes and Queries has been of considerable interest to historians of anthropology, its connections to museum anthropology and to material culture studies have, to a large degree, gone unexamined hitherto.