Graduate Study: The Pitt Rivers Museum and ISCA
Young monk with mural of the guardian
kings at Ridzong Buddhist monastery.
Ladakh, Tibet, 1994.The
Pitt Rivers Museum houses one of the world's finest and best documented collections
of ethnographic and archaeological artefacts, as well as ethnographic photographs
and archival holdings. It also holds a unique place in the history of British
anthropology, for it was here in 1884 that Sir Edward Tylor was appointed
to hold the first lectureship in anthropology in Britain. Teaching remains
central to the Museum's role and is continued today in the School of Anthropology,
of which the Museum is a part, along with the Institute of Social and Cultural
Anthropology (ISCA). Museum staff teach an innovative one-year MSc.program
in Material Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (MAME); students may also
do M.Phil. and D.Phil. research. The MSc. program emphasises material culture,
visual anthropology, art and aesthetics, 
Alan Corbiere, Ojibwe, Executive Director
of the Ojibwe
Cultural Foundation,
videoconferencing from the Pitt Rivers
Museum research
room to Eddie King,
an Odawa tribal elder, at the OCF, 2007.
the
anthropology of landscape, and museum ethnography within the broad framework
of social and cultural anthropology, its history, and its
contemporary contexts: Museum staff also contribute significantly to a new
M.Sc. degree in Visual Anthropology whichdraws heavily upon the photographic
collections at the Museum.
Dr Laura Peers and MAME students working with
Pitt Rivers Museum photographic collections, 2007.Further information about the MSc. programme in Material
Anthropology and Museum Ethnogrphy (MAME), as well as other degrees
offered can be found on the Institute
of Social and Cultural Anthropology website.
Funding for prospective students
The Hélène La Rue Scholarship in Musical
Collections
