Dividing the spoils : perspectives on military collections and the British empire
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Dividing the spoils : perspectives on military collections and the British empire
(Studies in imperialism / general editor, John M. MacKenzie)
Manchester University Press, 2020
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Note
Includes bibliographical references (p. 287-313) and index
Description and Table of Contents
Description
At a time of heightened international interest in the colonial dimensions of museum collections, Dividing the Spoils provides new perspectives on the motivations and circumstances whereby collections were appropriated and acquired during colonial military service. Combining approaches from the fields of material anthropology, imperial and military history, this book argues for a deeper examination of these collections within a range of intercultural histories that include alliance, diplomacy, curiosity and enquiry, as well as expropriation and cultural hegemony.
As museums across Europe reckon with the post-colonial legacies of their collections, Dividing the Spoils explores how the amassing of objects was understood and governed in British military culture, and considers how objects functioned in museum collections thereafter, suggesting new avenues for sustained investigation in a controversial, contested field. -- .
Table of Contents
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
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