Scattered Finds explores the politics, personalities and social histories that linked fieldwork
in Egypt with the varied organizations around the world that received finds. Case studies …

Few perspectives have invigorated the development of critical museum studies over the late
twentieth and early twenty-first centuries as much as Foucault's account of the relations …

This paper introduces the concept of 'object habits' for diversifying the scope of museum
histories. The term is shorthand referring to an area's customs relating to objects, taking into …

My concern in this chapter is to explore the implications of two perspectives for our
understanding of the relations between museums, nations, empires and religions as these …

The past two decades have seen a significant increase in archaeological investigations
implicitly, or explicitly, encompassing folkloric material. Many such publications begin with a …

Scholars who incorporate objects into their research have their fingers closer to the pulse of
the historic subjects of their studies than do those scholars who rely on only one type of data …

The Museum of English Rural Life (MERL) at the University of R played host to the annual
conference of the Museum Ethnographers (MEG) on 12-13 April 2010. MERL is not a venue …

In 2011 the Museum of English Rural Life at the University of Re awarded a major grant by
the Esmée Fairbairn Collections Fund for called'A Sense of Place'. In this paper I review'A …

This dissertation aims to understand the images and stories of the countryside exhibited in
two local museums in North Yorkshire–the Ryedale Folk Museum, Hutton le Hole and the …

references Page 1 references archives consulted Alexander Turnbull Library, Wellington.
Alfred L. Kroeber Papers, Bancroft Library, University of California, Berkeley. Anthropology …