Social and Material Connections: Otis T. Mason’s European Grand Tour and Collections Exchanges

Catherine A. Nichols; Nancy J. Parezo

doi:10.1080/02757206.2016.1195737

Social and Material Connections: Otis T. Mason’s European Grand Tour and Collections Exchanges

Catherine A. Nichols, Nancy J. Parezo

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Abstract

As a method of collections building within the practice of natural history, the exchange of duplicate specimens was carried out by anthropology curators and collectors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This paper examines exchanges resulting from a three-month tour of European museums by Smithsonian Institution Curator of Ethnology Otis T. Mason in 1889. Framed by the idea of a network of social and institutional ties, we evaluate the role of specimen exchange in the development of anthropology and museums on an international scale.

Original language	English (US)
Pages (from-to)	58-83
Number of pages	26
Journal	History and Anthropology
Volume	28
Issue number	1
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1080/02757206.2016.1195737
State	Published - Jan 1 2017

Keywords

Exchange
Museum
Networks
Smithsonian Institution

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Cultural Studies
History
Anthropology

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