Field Notes: It Belongs in a Museum! - ABC 09
We're embracing our Indiana Jones stereotypes this month at the Archaeo Book Club with the theme “It Belongs in a Museum!” But what does actually belong in a museum? Tune in to hear book club admins Judith, Ash, and Tilly discuss the colonial history of cabinets of curiosities, issues of repatriation, and why you shouldn’t stick your hand in a spinning wheel.
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Show Notes
We're embracing our Indiana Jones stereotypes this month at the Archaeo Book Club with the theme “It Belongs in a Museum!” But what does actually belong in a museum? Tune in to hear book club admins Judith, Ash, and Tilly discuss the colonial history of cabinets of curiosities, issues of repatriation, and why you shouldn’t stick your hand in a spinning wheel.
Monthly Book: Ghosts of the British Museum (Noah Angell)
Links
- Replicas in a museum
- Ghost dance shirt repatriation
- EXARC (society for experimental archaeology and open-air museums)
- Debates in repatriation of the Elgin Marbles
- Article on Cabinets of Curiosity
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Music
"Little Adventure" by Sergei Chetvertnykh
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