Download or read book Artificial Curiosities written by Adrienne L. Kaeppler and published by Honolulu : Bishop Museum Press. This book was released on 1978 with total page 328 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Catalogue of exhibition with biographical notes on Cook and discussion of the influence of Cooks voyages on natural history, geography, navigation, literature, art, ethnography; includes description of Australian artifacts exhibited.

Download or read book Artificial curiosities from the northwest coast of America written by Jonathan C. H. King and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Artificial Curiosities written by Adrienne L. Kaeppler and published by . This book was released on 1980-01-01 with total page 310 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Artificial Curiosities from the Northwest Coast of America written by Jonathan C. H. King and published by London : Published for the Trustees of the British Musuem by British Museum Publications. This book was released on 1981 with total page 232 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Description of the North American section of the Cook collection, and three further eighteenth-century accessions of Pacific North American artifacts. Catalogue discusses in detail, and illustrates 137 Aleut, Eskimo and Indian artefacts, most of which are from British Columbia and Alaska.

Download or read book Peter Parley s Book of Curiosities written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 238 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Collection of Natural and Artificial Curiosities written by Christie, Manson & Woods and published by . This book was released on 1787 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Cabinet of Curiosities written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1822 with total page 368 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Museum of Natural and Artificial Curiosities written by King & Lochée, London and published by . This book was released on 1810 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Natural Artificial Curiosities Prints and Paintings written by and published by . This book was released on 1804 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Artificial Curiosities of the 18th Century written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Artificial Curiosities written by and published by . This book was released on 1978 with total page 20 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Encyclopedia of Natural and Artificial Wonders and Curiosities written by John Platts and published by . This book was released on 1875 with total page 986 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Peter Parley s Book of Curiosities written by Samuel Griswold Goodrich and published by . This book was released on 1832 with total page 234 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Catalogue Descriptive of the Zoological Specimens Antiquities Coins Miscellaneous Curiosities written by Ashmolean Museum and published by . This book was released on 1836 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Prehistory written by Colin Renfrew and published by Modern Library. This book was released on 2008-08-19 with total page 242 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In Prehistory, the award-winning archaeologist and renowned scholar Colin Renfrew covers human existence before the advent of written records–which is to say, the overwhelming majority of our time here on earth. But Renfrew also opens up to discussion, and even debate, the term “prehistory” itself, giving an incisive, concise, and lively survey of the past, and how scholars and scientists labor to bring it to light. Renfrew begins by looking at prehistory as a discipline, particularly how developments of the past century and a half–advances in archaeology and geology; Darwin’s ideas of evolution; discoveries of artifacts and fossil evidence of our human ancestors; and even more enlightened museum and collection curatorship–have fueled continuous growth in our knowledge of prehistory. He details how breakthroughs such as radiocarbon dating and DNA analysis have helped us to define humankind’s past–how things have changed–much more clearly than was possible just a half century ago. Answers for why things have changed, however, continue to elude us, so Renfrew discusses some of the issues and challenges past and present that confront the study of prehistory and its investigators. In the book’s second part, Renfrew shifts the narrative focus, offering a summary of human prehistory from early hominids to the rise of literate civilization that is refreshingly free from conventional wisdom and grand “unified” theories. The author’s own case studies encompass a vast geographical and chronological range–the Orkney Islands, the Balkans, the Indus Valley, Peru, Ireland, and China–and help to explain the formation and development of agriculture and centralized societies. He concludes with a fascinating chapter on early writing systems, “From Prehistory to History.” In this invaluable, brief account of human development prior to the last four millennia, Colin Renfrew delivers a meticulously researched and passionately argued chronicle about our life on earth, and our ongoing quest to understand it.

Download or read book An Abridged Catalogue of the Principal Natural and Artificial Curiosities Now in the American Museum written by and published by . This book was released on 1819 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:

Download or read book Anthropology s Global Histories written by Rainer F. Buschmann and published by University of Hawaii Press. This book was released on 2008-10-31 with total page 250 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropologists and world historians make strange bedfellows. Although the latter frequently employ anthropological methods in their descriptions of cross-cultural exchanges, the former have raised substantial reservations about global approaches to history. Fearing loss of specificity, anthropologists object to the effacing qualities of techniques employed by world historians—this despite the fact that anthropology itself was a global, comparative enterprise in the nineteenth century.Rainer Buschmann here seeks to recover some of anthropology’s global flavor by viewing its history in Oceania through the notion of the ethnographic frontier—the furthermost limits of the anthropologically known regions of the Pacific. The colony of German New Guinea (1884–1914) presents an ideal example of just such a contact zone. Colonial administrators there were drawn to approaches partially inspired by anthropology. Anthropologists and museum officials exploited this interest by preparing large-scale expeditions to German New Guinea. Buschmann explores the resulting interactions between German colonial officials, resident ethnographic collectors, and indigenous peoples, arguing that all were instrumental in the formation of anthropological theory. He shows how changes in collecting aims and methods helped shift ethnographic study away from its focus on material artifacts to a broader consideration of indigenous culture. He also shows how ethnological collecting, often a competitive affair, could become politicized and connect to national concerns. Finally, he places the German experience in the broader context of Euro-American anthropology. Anthropology's Global Histories will interest students and scholars of anthropology, history, world history, and Pacific studies.