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 …

Acknowledging the Colonial Past: Display Methods of Ethnographic Objects Page 1 Seton Hall
University eRepository @ Seton Hall Seton Hall University Dissertations and Theses (ETDs) …

This article retraces the process by which a feathered rope, discovered in the roof of a house
in Somerset, came to be displayed as a 'Witch's Ladder'in a glass case showing 'Magic and …

This article explores the latent potential in the anthropological concept of survival, especially
through Tylor's usage of the term. Once a core concept of anthropological theory in the late …

Before the arrival of the first missionaries, Niuean warriors fought with stones carefully
modified for throwing. This practice, much feared by sailors and missionaries, became a …

Winifred Susan Blackman spent the better part of four months between N 1926 and February
1927 attempting to convince the pharmaceutical Henry Wellcome to fund her ethnographic …

The thesis examines problematic relationships between colonialism, knowledge and
curatorial practices as these relate to collections that are concerned, or linked, with 'the …

There were other objects that had a pervasive and well-documented history of apotropaic
usage in early modern and modern buildings, placed in and around the windows, doors …