Publication
London : UCL Press, 2021.
ISBN
9781787355262
Collections
Notes
https://www.uclpress.co.uk/collections/open-access/products/141630
CONTENTS
Introduction: mobilising and re-mobilising collections
1. Plant artefacts then and now: reconnecting biocultural collections in Amazonia
2. Re-mobilising colonial collections in decolonial times: exploring the latent possibilities of N. W. Thomas’ West African collections
3. Circuits of accumulation and loss: intersecting natural histories of the 1928 USDA New Guinea Sugarcane Expedition’s collections
4. Kew’s mobile museum: economic botany in circulation
5. Illustrating anthropological knowledge: texts, images and duplicate specimens at the Smithsonian Institution and Pitt Rivers Museum
6. Expeditionary collections: Haslar Hospital Museum and the circulation of public knowledge, 1815-1855
7. Mobile botany: education, horticulture and commerce in New York botanical gardens, 1890s-1930s
8. Plants on the move: Kew Gardens and the London schoolroom
9. Circulations of paradise (or, how to use a specimen to best personal advantage)
10. Circulation as negotiation and loss: Egyptian antiquities from British excavations, 1880–present
11. Colonising memory: Indigenous heritage and community engagement
12. The flow of things: mobilising museum collections of nineteenth-century Fijian liku (fibre skirts) and veiqia (female tattooing)
Afterword: What goes around, comes around: mobility's modernity
Index
CONTENTS
Introduction: mobilising and re-mobilising collections
1. Plant artefacts then and now: reconnecting biocultural collections in Amazonia
2. Re-mobilising colonial collections in decolonial times: exploring the latent possibilities of N. W. Thomas’ West African collections
3. Circuits of accumulation and loss: intersecting natural histories of the 1928 USDA New Guinea Sugarcane Expedition’s collections
4. Kew’s mobile museum: economic botany in circulation
5. Illustrating anthropological knowledge: texts, images and duplicate specimens at the Smithsonian Institution and Pitt Rivers Museum
6. Expeditionary collections: Haslar Hospital Museum and the circulation of public knowledge, 1815-1855
7. Mobile botany: education, horticulture and commerce in New York botanical gardens, 1890s-1930s
8. Plants on the move: Kew Gardens and the London schoolroom
9. Circulations of paradise (or, how to use a specimen to best personal advantage)
10. Circulation as negotiation and loss: Egyptian antiquities from British excavations, 1880–present
11. Colonising memory: Indigenous heritage and community engagement
12. The flow of things: mobilising museum collections of nineteenth-century Fijian liku (fibre skirts) and veiqia (female tattooing)
Afterword: What goes around, comes around: mobility's modernity
Index