Shields and Objects, Anthropology and Museums

Pitt Rivers Museum, Alison Petch - HEFCE

Principal Investigator / Director: Alison Petch

Oxford participants: Jeremy Coote; Haas Ezzet; Alison Petch

Other Participants: not specified

Project Webpage: http://www.prm.ox.ac.uk/Kent/misc/introset.html

Start Date: 1997

End Date: 1998

Funder: HEFCE

Partner organizations (inside or outside Oxford): University of Kent

 

 

Project Description:

This site offers possible avenues of exploration include the history of anthropology and ethnography; shields and weapons; ethnographic museums (specifically the Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford), and types of museum display; the anthropology of art; and collecting, particularly field collecting.