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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.2007.30.1.64
Subject(s) - social research , history , anthropology , media studies , sociology , library science , computer science
Cabinets for the Curious: Looking Back at Early English Museums by Ken Arnold. Aldershot: Ashgate, 2006. 297 pp. Alison Petch is a project researcher and registrar at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford, United Kingdom. Until March 2006, she was employed on the Economic and Social Research Council (ESRC)— funded "Relational Museum" project, and since April 2006, she has been working on "The Other Within: An Anthropology of Englishness at the Pitt Rivers Museum," also funded by the ESRC.