Pitt Rivers

Pitt Rivers
Author: Mark Bowden
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Total Pages: 208
Release: 1991-08-30
Genre: Biography & Autobiography
ISBN: 9780521400770

Mark Bowden has written an entertaining and thoroughly researched biography of General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900).

From Hospitality to Grace

From Hospitality to Grace
Author: Julian Alfred Pitt-Rivers
Publisher: Hau
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2017
Genre: Anthropology
ISBN: 9780986132520

The Pitt-Rivers Omnibus brings together the definitive essays and lectures of the influential social anthropologist Julian A. Pitt-Rivers, a corpus of work that has, until now, remained scattered, untranslated, and unedited. Illuminating the themes and topics that he engaged throughout his life--including hospitality, grace, the symbolic economy of reciprocity, kinship, the paradoxes of friendship, ritual logics, the anthropology of dress, and more--this omnibus brings his reflections to new life. Holding Pitt-Rivers's diversity of subjects and ethnographic foci in the same gaze, this book reveals a theoretical unity that ran through his work and highlights his iconic wit and brilliance. Striking at the heart of anthropological theory, the pieces here explore the relationship between the mental and the material, between what is thought and what is done. Classic, definitive, and yet still extraordinarily relevant for contemporary anthropology, Pitt-Rivers's lifetime contribution will provide a new generation of anthropologists with an invaluable resource for reflection on both ethnographic and theoretical issues.

The People of the Sierra

The People of the Sierra
Author: Julian Pitt-Rivers
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 268
Release: 1971
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 0226670104

In 1st ed., 1954, village was called Alcalá de la Sierra, in order to protect informants during Franco regime; identified as Grazalema in 2nd ed.

Knowing Things

Knowing Things
Author: Chris Gosden
Publisher: Oxford University Press, USA
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2007
Genre: History
ISBN: 9780199225897

This book explores the early history of the Pitt Rivers Museum and its collections. Many thousands of people collected objects for the Museum between its foundation in 1884 and 1945, and together they and the objects they collected provide a series of insights into the early history of archaeology and anthropology. The volume also includes individual biographies and group histories of the people originally making and using the objects, as well as a snapshot of the British empire. The main focus for the book derives from the computerized catalogues of the Museum and attendant archival information. Together these provide a unique insight into the growth of a well-known institution and its place within broader intellectual frameworks of the Victorian period and early twentieth century. It also explores current ideas on the nature of relationships, particularly those between people and things.

World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization

World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: A Characterization
Author: Dan Hicks
Publisher: Archaeopress Publishing Ltd
Total Pages: 583
Release: 2013-03-08
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1784910759

World Archaeology at the Pitt Rivers Museum: a characterization introduces the range, history and significance of the archaeological collections of the Pitt Rivers Museum, Oxford.

George Pitt-Rivers and the Nazis

George Pitt-Rivers and the Nazis
Author: Bradley W. Hart
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing
Total Pages: 249
Release: 2015-10-22
Genre: History
ISBN: 1472569946

This work examines the life and work of George Pitt-Rivers, a significant anthropologist, eugenicist, and Nazi sympathiser who was detained by the British government during the Second World War.

Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond

Lande: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond
Author: Hicks, Dan
Publisher: Bristol University Press
Total Pages: 154
Release: 2019-05-22
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1529206189

Available Open Access under CC-BY-NC licence. How can Archaeology help us understand our contemporary world? This ground-breaking book reflects on material, visual and digital culture from the Calais “Jungle” – the informal camp where, before its destruction in October 2016, more than 10,000 displaced people lived. LANDE: The Calais 'Jungle' and Beyond reassesses how we understand ‘crisis’, activism, and the infrastructure of national borders in Refugee and Forced Migration Studies, foregrounding the politics of environments, time, and the ongoing legacies of empire. Introducing a major collaborative exhibit at Oxford’s Pitt Rivers Museum, the book argues that an anthropological focus on duration, impermanence and traces of the most recent past can recentre the ongoing human experiences of displacement in Europe today.

Radical Hope

Radical Hope
Author: Jonathan Lear
Publisher: Harvard University Press
Total Pages: 200
Release: 2009-06-30
Genre: Philosophy
ISBN: 0674040023

Presents the story of Plenty Coups, the last great Chief of the Crow Nation. This title contains a philosophical and ethical inquiry into a people faced with the end of their way of life.

The Brutish Museums

The Brutish Museums
Author: Dan Hicks
Publisher:
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2020
Genre: BUSINESS & ECONOMICS
ISBN: 9781786806833

Walk into any European museum today and you will see the curated spoils of Empire. They sit behind plate glass: dignified, tastefully lit. Accompanying pieces of card offer a name, date and place of origin. They do not mention that the objectsare all stolen. Few artefacts embody this history of rapacious and extractive colonialism better than the Benin Bronzes - a collection of thousands of brass plaques and carved ivory tusks depicting the history of the Royal Court of the Obas of BeninCity, Nigeria. Pillaged during a British naval attack in 1897, the loot was passed on to Queen Victoria, the British Museum and countless private collections. The story of the Benin Bronzes sits at the heart of a heated debate about cultural restitution, repatriation and the decolonisation of museums. In The Brutish Museums, Dan Hicks makes a powerful case for the urgent return of such objects, as part of a wider project of addressing the outstanding debt of colonialism.