Readership: Postgraduate students and professional researchers in archaeology, anthropology and museum studies; readers with an interest in the history of science and in museums
Chris Gosden, Professor of European Archaeology, University of Oxford; Fellow of British Academy, and Frances Larson, Postdoctoral Researcher
1: What is a Museum? 2: Museum Ethnography: the Field Site and our Informants 3: Participatory Anthropology: Museums as Emergent Entities 4: Objects collect people: Past Perspectives on the Mind and the Material World 5: Collecting Rhythms: Typological Methods in Archaeology and Anthropology 6: Material Anthropology: Generating Knowledge in the Museum 7: Beyond the Boundaries of the Museum: Disciplinary Reconfigureation at Oxford 8: The Pitt Rivers Museum Stretched Out: Collecting in the Field 9: Spatial Transformations: Representing the World at the Pitt Rivers Museum
