Field Notes: It Belongs in a Museum! - Ep 09

We're embracing our Indiana Jones stereotypes this month at the Archaeo Book Club with the theme “It Belongs in a Museum!” But what does actually belong in a museum? Tune in to hear book club admins Judith, Ash, and Tilly discuss the colonial history of cabinets of curiosities, issues of repatriation, and why you shouldn’t stick your hand in a spinning wheel.

Monthly Book: Ghosts of the British Museum (Noah Angell)

Links

• Replicas in a museum

• Ghost dance shirt repatriation

• EXARC (society for experimental archaeology and open-air museums)

• Debates in repatriation of the Elgin Marbles

• Article on Cabinets of Curiosity

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• "Little Adventure" by Sergei Chetvertnykh

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• For rough transcripts of this episode, go to: https://www.archaeologypodcastnetwork.com/archaeo-book-club/09

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