Margaret Mead as a Museum Anthropologist
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2455264 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David Hurst Thomas (0000-0003-2724-6345, American Museum of Natural History, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1980 |
| Volume | 82 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 354-361 |
| Publication date | 1980-06-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.1980.82.2.02a00080 |
| OpenAlex | W2037968588 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 3 |
| References cited | 3 |
Margaret Mead's museum-related activities involved establishment of a sizable ethnographic collection (particularly during her fieldwork on Manus and in New Guinea), exhibition of these artifacts in her Peoples of the Pacific Hall, and an active concern with conservation and restoration of overall ethnographic research collections. Her attitude toward museums reflected a characteristic blend of the pragmatic and the intensely personal
Archaeology · Art history · Ethnography · Ethnology · Exhibition · Manus · Media studies · New guinea · Sociology · Anthropology · Anthropology: Ethics, History, Culture · History
| Citations per year | 0.27 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2015 - 2022 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |