In the past, museums often changed the meaning of icons or statues of deities from sacred to
aesthetic, or used them to declare the superiority of Western society, or simply as cultural …

Religions teach their adherents how to see and feel at the same time; learning to see is not a
disembodied process but one hammered from the forge of human need, social relations …

The emerging field of the anthropology of Christianity appears suspended between two
poles: a concern with understanding the continuous and relatively coherent traits of the …

Trophies, Relics and Curios? Missionary heritage from Africa and the Pacific — University of
East Anglia Skip to main navigation Skip to search Skip to main content University of East …

Suomen kansallismuseon oltua jo runsaat 20 vuotta yleisölle avoimena Suomen
Sosialidemokraatti-lehdessä julkaistiin maaliskuussa 1939 museota koskeva laaja kirjoitus …

Abstract Together with the Revd Daniel Tyerman, George Bennet formed part of a
deputation sent out in 1821 by the London Missionary Society with the aim of undertaking a …

In an acid-free cardboard box in a wooden drawer in the Bird Division of the Smithsonian
Institution's National Museum of Natural History lies specimen 125012. Collected 135 years …

In 1823, the Church Missionary Society missionary Thomas Kendall sent 18 whakairo rakau
(Maori wood carvings) in three consignments from the Bay of Islands in Aotearoa New …

This article explores the effects of cultural cross-dressing on the balance between the
material object and its representation in the context of exhibitions. It builds on Timothy …

Antiquities Service from 1945 to 1970. In the years directly following the Second World War,
staff in the British Museum's Department of Ethnography and the emerging national museum …