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The Pitt Rivers Museum is a renowned centre for research on material culture, art and photography.
With strong historical links to the teaching of anthropology and archaeology in the University of Oxford, the Museum today seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines to explore critical themes that connect people all over the world to its rich collections and the histories they hold.
Ethnographic museums and the shapes of radical hope and reconciliation
A Wenner-Gren Foundation workshop at the Pitt Rivers Museum, July 11-14, 2019, with additional funding from The Oxford Research Centre for the Humanities (TORCH).
'The Conservation and Display of the Tahitian Mourner’s Costume at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford' in M.M. Brooks and D.D. Eastop (eds.) Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2017.
'Calibrating relevance at the Pitt Rivers Museum', in J. Pellew and L. Goldman (eds.) Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors. London: University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 2018.
‘The graphicalization of description: drawing and photography in the fieldwork journals and museum work of Henry Balfour’, Anthropology and Photography, Vol. 10 (London: Royal Anthropological Institute).
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