About this project

• Ways of using the material: notes for teachers (and students)
• What this project is about
• Background to the project
• Introduction to the Pitt Rivers Museum and the Founding Collection
• Acknowledgements
  

History of anthropology

• Definitions
• Museums and anthropology in the nineteenth century
  • History of ethnographic collections in Europe
• Nineteenth century anthropology and its effects on Pitt Rivers
  • The Ethnological Society of London
  • The Ethnographical Context
  • The Problems of Ethnology
  • The Anthropological Society of London
  • Amalgamation of the Ethnological and Anthropological Societies
• Influences on Pitt Rivers' method of classification
  • Christy and Franks
  • Klemm
• Typological classification and display of material culture
  • A contemporary view of Pitt Rivers' collection
  • Displaying Pitt Rivers' collection in Bethnal Green and Oxford
  • Pitt Rivers on typological display (1)
  • Pitt Rivers on typological display (2)
  • Typological displays in context
  • Typological museums: the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, and the Farnham Museum, as discussed in article of 1891
  • Typological display compared with other forms

Shields and weapons

• Shields collected by Pitt Rivers and now in the Pitt Rivers Museum
  • Pitt Rivers' catalogue
  • Current information
• Background information
  • Pitt Rivers' overall collection
  • Field collectors of Pitt Rivers' shields
  • Pitt Rivers on shields in general
  • History of weapons collections
  • A nineteenth century weapons collection
• Shields from different parts of the world
  • African shields
    • Dinka shields
    • Mundo shields
    • Nguni shields
    • Zande shields
  • Australian shields
  • Dayak shields
  • Indian shields
  • Solomon Islands shields
  • Other shields
• Thinking about shields as objects of material culture
  • Terminology and history
  • Contexts
  • Form, function and design
  • Form, function and contexts: shields in the Barbier-Mueller Museum
  • Representation
  • Meaning and interpretation

Collecting

• Introduction
• Contemporary field collecting (1)
  • Extract from Michael O'Hanlon's Paradise discussing the issues of field collection
  • Extract from J. Clifford's Paradise Visual Anthropology review
• Contemporary field collecting (2)
  • Extract from Malcolm McLeod's Collecting for the British Museum
• Contemporary field collecting (3): D. Zeitlyn on collecting Mambila shields
• 19th century field collecting
• Non-field collecting (1): Pitt Rivers
• Non-field collecting (2): Franks and the British Museum

Museums

• History
  • Museums and anthropology in the nineteenth century
    • History of ethnographic collections in Europe
    • History of weapons collections
    • Nineteenth century anthropology
  • Typological classification and display of material culture
    • A contemporary view of Pitt Rivers' collection
      • His collection (1)
      • His collection (2)
    • Displaying Pitt Rivers' collection in Bethnal Green and Oxford
      • Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums
    • Pitt Rivers on typological display (1)
    • Pitt Rivers on typological display (2)
    • Typological displays in context
    • Typological museums: the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford, and the Farnham Museum, as discussed in article of 1891
    • Typological display compared with other forms
  • Influences on Pitt Rivers' method of classification
    • Christy and Franks
    • Klemm
• The Pitt Rivers Museum
  • The Pitt Rivers Museum in the late 1990s
    • Introduction to the Museum
    • Outline of the Museum in the 1990s
    • Documentation in the Museum
    • More recent displays at the Pitt Rivers Museum
  • History of the Pitt Rivers Museum
    • Important members of staff since 1884
    • History of museums and ethnographic collections
• Types of museum display
  • The Pitt Rivers Museum Upper Gallery display
    • Shield displays at the Pitt Rivers Museum
  • A shield exhibition in the Barbier-Mueller Museum
• Museum documentation
  • Documentation in the Pitt Rivers Museum
  • Current information about shields in the Pitt Rivers Museum
• Thinking about objects and representation in the museum
  • Terminology and history
  • Contexts
  • Form, function and design
  • Representation
  • Meaning and interpretation

Thinking about objects

• Terminology and history
• Contexts
• Form, function and design
  • Form, function and contexts: shields in the Barbier-Mueller Museum
• Representation
• Meaning and interpretation

Pitt Rivers and the Pitt Rivers Museum

• Lt-General Pitt Rivers
  • His life
  • His collection (1)
  • His collection (2)
    • A contemporary view of his collection
  • Displaying his collection
    • Pitt Rivers on typological display (1)
    • Bethnal Green and South Kensington Museums
    • Influences on Pitt Rivers: other people's classifications
  • 19th century anthropology and its impact on Pitt Rivers
  • History of weapons collections
    • A nineteenth century weapons collection
  • Pitt Rivers on shields
  • Bibliography
• The Pitt Rivers Museum
  • The Pitt Rivers Museum in the late 1990s
    • Introduction to the Museum
    • Outline of the Museum in the 1990s
    • Documentation in the Museum
    • More recent displays at the Pitt Rivers Museum
  • History of the Pitt Rivers Museum
    • Important members of staff since 1884
    • History of museums and ethnographic collections
  • Types of museum display
    • The Pitt Rivers Museum Upper Gallery display
    • Shield displays at the Pitt Rivers Museum
  • Shields in the Pitt Rivers Museum
    • Pitt Rivers' catalogue
    • Current information

Bibliography

• Abbreviations
• Alphabetical listing
• Pitt Rivers: the man and his collections
• Shields, other objects, and ways of thinking about them
• Museums and display

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