Lidchi / Unknown / Allan Dividing the spoils

Perspectives on military collections and the British empire
1. Auflage 2020
ISBN: 978-1-5261-3921-4
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, Band 177, 344 Seiten

Reihe: Studies in Imperialism

As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, this volume combines approaches from material anthropology, imperial and military history to shed light on the acquisition and appropriation of objects during British colonial warfare. The authors offer a nuanced view of how the amassing of objects was governed and understood within military culture.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Unknown,

Lidchi, Henrietta

Allan, Stuart

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Geschichtliche Themen Militärgeschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Europäische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Kunst Kunst, allgemein Kunstsammlung, Museen, Ausstellungen

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction: dividing the spoils – Henrietta Lidchi and Stuart Allan

Part I Ideologies of empire and governance
1 Spoils of war: custom and practice – Edward M. Spiers
2 The agency of objects: a contrasting choreography of flags, military booty and skulls from late nineteenth-century Africa – John Mack
3 Collecting and the trophy – John M. MacKenzie

Part II Military collecting cultures
4 Soldiering archaeology: Pitt Rivers and collecting ‘Primitive Warfare’ – Christopher Evans
5 The officers’ mess: an anthropology and history of the military interior – Lt Col Charles Kirke (Rtd) and Nicole M. Hartwell
6 Seeing Tibet through soldiers’ eyes: photograph albums in regimental museums – Henrietta Lidchi with Rosanna Nicolson
7 A regimental culture of collecting – Desmond Thomas

Part III The afterlives of military collections
8 Military histories of ‘Summer Palace’ objects from China in military museums in the United Kingdom – Louise Tythacott
9 Indigenising folk art: eighteenth-century powder horns in British military collections – Stuart Allan and Henrietta Lidchi
10 Community consultation and shaping of the National Army Museum’s Insight gallery – Alastair Massie
11 Mementoes of power and conquest: Sikh jewellery in the collection of National Museums Scotland – Friederike Voigt

Afterword: material reckonings with military histories – Henrietta Lidchi

Archival sources
Bibliography
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Henrietta Lidchi is Chief Curator at the National Museum van Wereldculturen, Netherlands, and a Research Fellow at National Museums Scotland
Stuart Allan is Keeper of Scottish History and Archaeology at National Museums Scotland