Religious change is at its core a material as much as a spiritual process. Beliefs related to
intangible spirits, ghosts, or gods were enacted through material relationships between …

The museum at the London Missionary Society headquarters has been studied largely by
those with an interest in early Polynesian missionary encounters, and has become famous …

In this article it is argued that past examination of hoards and hoarding has concentrated too
much on the moment of deposition to the detriment of the period of collection and …

ABSTRACT A number of recent publications, including a recent special issue of World
Archaeology, have engaged with museum collections as assemblages that can be studied …

This article documents the creation of a teaching collection intended to teach and equally
interrogate collections management practices and values to graduate‐level museum studies …

Introduction| 3 hosting large gatherings of hundreds, if not thousands, of people: a capacity
on a par with anything discovered from prehistoric Europe. The hoard may have been …

The digitisation of museum collections continues to alter how objects are presented and how
digital visitors and researchers interact with collections. Drawing on an interdisciplinary …

In recent years, a burgeoning literature has called for anthropology museums to foster more
publicly oriented research and become more socially engaged. These calls converge with a …

In the absence of indigenous voices in historical documents relating to British New Guinea,
the Official collection made between 1888 and 1898 provides an invaluable record of how …

This article examines how a collection of stone tools excavated and classified as
prehistorical in 1926 in today's KwaZulu-Natal (South Africa) were made into scientific …