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Showing 1 to 3 of 3 for “"Victorian Anthropology"”.
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Semitic discourse: English identity and the nineteenth -century British novel
… are novels that directly address or comment upon Victorian concerns about race, religion, nation, British imperialism, Semitism, and Victorian anthropology in works by Maria Edgeworth, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Bronte, Charlotte Tonna, Benjamin Disraeli, George Eliot and H. Rider Haggard.</p>
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We Call It Pulling a Thread: Deconstructing Femininity at the Molly Brown House Museum
… Tobin Brown. Using new museology, feminist anthropology, and performance theory, I analyze data from staff interviews and tour participant observation to explore how the museum deconstructs popular understandings of historical femininity. Through visitor surveys, I measure the extent to …
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Hidden Histories and Multiple Meanings: The Richard Dennett Collection at the Royal Albert Memorial Museum, Exeter.
… result he became involved in the institutions of anthropology and folklore in Britain which were attempting to explain, classify and interpret such cultures. Through examining Dennett’s history this research has been able to explore the Congo context, the indigenous society, and those European …