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Aug 07, 2024
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STS 4634 - Curating the British Empire (crosslisted) ARTH 4720 , BSOC 4634 , HIST 4634 (GLC-AS, HST-AS) (EC-SAP) Spring. 4 credits. Student option grading.
Co-meets with ARTH 6720 /HIST 6634 /STS 6634 .
J. Ratcliff.
During Europe’s colonial era, the modern museum emerged as a site of cultural and scientific authority. This course investigates the history of imperial collections and collectors, with a focus on Britain and the East India Company in the nineteenth century. Examples of topics include: the “supply chain” for artifacts and knowledge resources; changing conceptions of intellectual property, ownership and access; household versus public versus for-profit collections; museums and the narration of social values and cultural identities; debates over the function or aims of museums and related institutions; the collections and the administration of the empire; the collections and the growth of the sciences; the postcolonial legacies of colonial collections.
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