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. McCarthy (ed.), Museum Practice: The International Handbooks of Museum Studies (Oxford and Malden, MA: Wiley Blackwell, 2015), pp. xxxv–lii. For a notable exception see Macdonald and Morgan, Chapter 2 above. 13 See Mallon, Chapter 17 below. 14 K.W. Thomson, Art Galleries and Museums of New Zealand (Wellington: Reed, 1981); J. MacKenzie, Museums and Empire: Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009); C. McCarthy, ‘Museums’, in Te Ara – The Encyclopedia of New Zealand (Wellington: Ministry for Culture and
2005. Also MacKenzie (ed.), Imperialism and the Natural World (Manchester, 1990); Jeffrey Richards and MacKenzie, The Railway Station: A Social History (Oxford, 1986). I contributed all the non-European chapters to this book. MacKenzie, Museums and Empire: Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities (Manchester, 2009); MacKenzie, ‘Missionaries, Science and the Environment in Nineteenth-Century Africa’ in Andrew Porter (ed.), The Imperial Horizons of British Protestant Missions, 1880–1914 (Grand Rapids, MI and Cambridge, 2003), pp. 106–130; MacKenzie
Recent years have not just witnessed increased academic research on the connections between museums and empire or museums self-critically examining their own colonial legacy. There has also been a broader public debate on Germany’s colonial past triggered by the occasion of the 100th anniversary of the war against an indigenous population, the Herero, in the colony of German South
and Empire: Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009), and Sarah Longair and John McAleer (eds), Curating Empire: Museums and the British Imperial Experience (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2012). Botanic gardens, as well as displaying plants and tropical products from colonised regions, often
Archaeology Department of the North-West Frontier Circle. 37 In popular culture, this competitive spirit bound up with archaeology can be found in the Indiana Jones books and films. 38 S. Sheets-Pyenson, Cathedrals of Science: The Development of Colonial Natural History Museums in the Late Nineteenth century (Kingston and Montreal: McGill-Queen’s University Press, 1988). 39 J. M. MacKenzie, Museums and Empire: Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities (Manchester: Manchester University Press, 2009). 40 M. Bowden, Pitt Rivers: The Life and
. 51 James Belich, The New Zealand Wars and the Victorian Interpretation of Racial Conflict (London, 1986). See also John M. MacKenzie, Museums and Empire (Manchester, 2009), particularly chapters 8 and 9. 52 Ibid., chapters 2 and 3. It is true that wooden carving traditions often assumed natural deterioration and destruction, as did some indigenous building traditions, but the assumption in these cases was that they would be continuously renewed. It was that renewal that often came to an end. 53 James Danschuk, Clearing the Plains: Disease, Politics of Starvation
in plain sight’, namely imperial hunting; Imperialism and the Natural World (1990) established the role of science and learned institutions in the imperial engagement with the natural world; and Museums and Empire (2009) provided the first comparative study of natural history museums in the colonies and their reliance upon explorers for artefacts and specimens. Ranging across metropolitan popular
, sometimes subconscious, cultural forms of imperialism becomes fully apparent. From Propaganda and Empire in 1984 to Museums and Empire in 2009, MacKenzie has explored how the production and organisation of knowledge and culture was crucial to imperialism. In the former, he analyses, for example, how militarism and the celebration of warfare helped to diffuse racial ideas and a sense of superiority
Maori: A History of Colonial Cultures of Display (Oxford 2007 ); John MacKenzie, Museums and Empire: Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities (Manchester 2009 ); Lara Kriegel, Grand Designs: Labor, Empire, and the Museum in Victorian Culture (Durham 2007); Pramod Nayar, Colonial Voices: The Discourses of Empire (Chichester 2012); H. Glenn Penny, Objects of
:2 (1971), pp. 160–82. For the cultural construction of settler identities through the natural world see J. M. MacKenzie, Museums and Empire: Natural History, Human Cultures and Colonial Identities (Manchester, 2009). 19 See, especially, B. Nasson, ‘Why they fought: Black Cape Colonists and Imperial Wars