Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture

268 Pages·1988·19.262 MB·English

by  George W. Stocking Jr. (editor)

and Others
Obj~cts
HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 1
Observers Observed
Essays on Ethnographic Fieldwork
Volume 2
Functionalism Historicized
Essays on British Social Anthropology
Volume 3
Objects and Others
Essays on Museums and Material Culture
Volume 4
Malinowski, Rivers, Benedict and Others
Essays on Culture and Personality
Objects and Others
ESSAYS ON MUSEUMS
AND MATERIAL CULTURE
Edited by
George W. Stocking, Jr.
HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Volume 3
THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN PRESS
The University of Wisconsin Press
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London WC2E 8LU, England
Copyright © 1985
The Board of Regents of the University of Wisconsin System
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Printed in the United States of America
Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data
Main entry under title:
Objects and others.
(History of anthropology; v. 3)
Includes bibliographies and index.
1. Anthropological museums and collections-History
Addresses, essays, lectures. 2. Anthropology-History
Addresses, essays, lectures. 3. Material culture-Ad
dresses, essays, lectures. 1. Stocking, George W.,
1928- . II. Series.
GN35.025 1985 306 85-40379
ISBN 0-299-10320-X
ISBN 0-299-10324-2 (paper)
HISTORY OF ANTHROPOLOGY
EDITOR
George W. Stocking, Jr.
Department of Anthropology, University of Chicago
EDITORIAL BOARD
Talal Asad
Department of Sociology and Social Anthropology, University of Hull
James Boon
Department of Anthropology, Cornell University
Ja mes Clifford
Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Donna Haraway
Board of Studies in the History of Consciousness,
University of California, Santa Cruz
Curtis Hinsley
Department of History, Colgate University
Dell Hymes
Graduate School of Education, University of Pennsylvania
Henrika Kuklick
Department of History and Sociology of Science,
University of Pennsylvania
Bruce Trigger
Department of Anthropology, McGill University

Contents
ESSAYS ON MUSEUMS AND MATERIAL CULTURE
3
ARRANGING ETHNOLOGY: A. H. L. F. PITT RIVERS
AND THE TYPOLOGICAL TRADITION
William Ryan Chapman
15
FROM SHELL-HEAPS TO STELAE:
EARLY ANTHROPOLOGY AT THE PEABODY MUSEUM
Curtis M. Hinsley
49
FRANZ BOAS AND EXHIBITS:
ON THE LIMITATIONS OF THE MUSEUM METHOD OF ANTHROPOLOGY
Ira Jacknis
75
PHILANTHROPOIDS AND VANISHING CULTURES:
ROCKEFELLER FUNDING AND THE END OF THE MUSEUM ERA
IN ANGLO-AMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGY
George W. Stocking, Jr.
112
ART AND ARTIFACT AT THE TROCADERO:
ARS AMERICANA AND THE PRIMITIVIST REVOLUTION
Elizabeth A. Williams
146
THE ETHNIC ART MARKET IN THE AMERICAN SOUTHWEST, 1880-1980
Edwin L. Wade
167
ON HAVING A CULTURE: NATIONALISM
AND THE PRESERVATION OF QUEBEC'S PATRIMOINE
Richard Handler
192
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WRITING THE HISTORY OF ARCHEOLOGY:
A SURVEY OF TRENDS
Bruce G. Trigger
218
OBJECTS AND SELVES-AN AFTERWORD
Ja mes Clifford
236
INFORMATION FOR CONTRIBUTORS
247
INDEX
249
Objects and Others