Cabinets and culture
Victorian anthropology and the museum context
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 5152844 |
|---|---|
| Authors | David K Van Keuren (California University of Pennsylvania, corresponding author) |
| Year | 1989 |
| Volume | 25 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 26-39 |
| Publication date | 1989-01-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Journal of the History of the Behavioral Sciences (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0022-5061 • E-ISSN: 1520-6696 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1002/1520-6696(198901)25:1<26::aid-jhbs2300250103>3.0.co;2-j |
| OpenAlex | W1969860437 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 5 |
Collections of material artifacts played a central institutional and intellectual role in Victorian anthropology. Ethnological theory argued that evolution in material technology recapitulated broader patterns of social evolution. Arrangement of artifacts into developmental typologies thereby provided heuristic exemplars by which theorists could chart the path of broader institutional change. Museums, in consequence, became centers for professional research and advancement. The central theoretical and disciplinary role of collections was tied to evolutionary theory. As the latter lost its preeminence in the first quarter of the twentieth century, so did museum settings decline in significance.
Archaeology · Context (archaeology) · Discipline · Quarter (Canadian coin) · Social science · Sociology · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · Historical and Cultural Archaeology Studies · History · History of Science and Natural History
| Citations per year | 0.19 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 1999 - 2026 (28) |
| Highly cited | No |