Semantic Coherence: Pitt Rivers Museum – Signal Evidence & AI Readability

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[H3] Pitt Rivers Museum

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[H3] Events over Bank Holiday and Half Term

Join us for a range of activities over the Bank Holiday weekend and Half Term holidays.
View the Multaka Oxford Artweeks Display: Living Textiles until Monday 25 May.
Family Activity Corner each Saturday afternoon.
Join us later in the half week on Wednesday and Thursday afternoon for Puppets and Performance.

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[H3] With these Hands

Crafting a Shared Humanity
Visit the new display on the first floor and gallery trail, With these Hands, co-produced with MultakaOxford and created by a multicultural team of volunteers who share an interest in the hand-crafted.

Craft Workshops

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Craft Workshops

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Sign up for one of our craft workshops and get creative! Take your pick from basketry, cordage, gold work embroidery, darning and many more!

SPECIAL EXHIBITION - CLOSES 7 JUNE 2026
Journey through the Hawaiian landscape in this special exhibition, a unique collaboration showcasing the contemporary works of the Honolulu-based Poakalani Quilters, the innovative designs of the fashion icon Manaola Yap and the visionary planetary futurism of Solomon Enos.

LAST FEW WEEKS

Palestine: Pieces of Me
Roots of My Homeland
This online exhibition marks the longterm partnership between MultakaOxford and two organisations, Al Amari Women’s Program Centre and the Oxford Ramallah Friendship Association.

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Online Collections

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Online Collections

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Browse the object and photograph collections online.

Online Exhibitions

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Online Exhibitions

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Discover our past exhibitions through images and videos.

Research

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Research

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Find out about some of the exciting research projects going on behind the scenes.

Radical Hope, Critical Change

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Radical Hope, Critical Change

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[H3] Collections

On this page:  Collections online  | Areas of the collections  |  Changes to the collections  |  Human Remains  | The Decolonisation Process  | Committed to Change  | The Benin Bronzes I Returns | Highlights  |  Using our collections  |  Conservation  |  Blogs  | Policies   |   Contact us

The Museum displays archaeological and ethnographic objects from all parts of the world. The General Pitt Rivers's founding gift contained more than 26,000 objects, but there are now over half a million. The extensive photographic and sound archives contain early records of great importance. Today the Museum is an active research and teaching department of the University of Oxford. It continues to expand its collections through donations, bequests and special purchases, as well as through students in the course of their fieldwork.

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[H3] Online collections

The online collections provide access to all the information held by the Museum about the objects and historic photographs in its collections.

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Ethnography and archaeology

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Ethnography and archaeology

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The Museum holds archaeological and ethnographic objects from all parts of the world. It was founded in 1884 when General Pitt Rivers, an influential figure in the development of archaeology and evolutionary anthropology, gave his collection to the University. Others were inspired by his gift, and the collections grew exponentially over the last century.

Photographs, sound, film & archives

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Photographs, sound, film & archives

[H3] Photographs, sound, film & archives

The Museum has collected photographs ever since its foundation. We hold important collections of 19th- and early 20th-century photography, and important fieldwork archives, such as the photographs of the traveller Wilfred Thesiger, whose collection alone numbers some 38,000 images. The Museum also holds important sound and film collections.

Conservation

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Conservation

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Conservators at the Pitt Rivers use a variety of techniques to stabilise and preserve ethnographic objects, and slow down further deterioration. Their techniques include analysis of materials and historical research. These scientific approaches are coupled with an awareness of the sensitivities of originating communities.

The Balfour Library

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The Balfour Library

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The Balfour Library is one of the UK’s leading museum research and teaching libraries for the study of anthropology, archaeology and world music. It holds around 20,000 books, 12,000 pamphlets and 300 journal titles.

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Human Remains

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The decolonisation process

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Committed to Change

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New Kingdom of Benin display

Returns

Returns

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Rethinking Relationships

Rethinking Relationships

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Axe, Papua New Guinea

Axe, Papua New Guinea

[H3] Axe, Papua New Guinea

This stone axe is from the Wahgi valley, dating to the 1930s. Many isolated New Guinea peoples predominately used...

This stone axe is from the Wahgi valley, dating to the 1930s. Many isolated New Guinea peoples predominately used stone technology until Australian colonists introduced steel tools...

This stone axe is from the Wahgi valley, dating to the 1930s. Many isolated New Guinea peoples predominately used stone technology until Australian colonists introduced steel tools in the mid-20th century.

This stone axe is from the Wahgi valley, dating to the 1930s. Many isolated New Guinea peoples predominately used stone technology until Australian colonists introduced steel tools in the mid-20th century.

Axe head, USA

Axe head, USA

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This ground stone axehead is grooved around three sides for haft bindings. It is very old, probably from the Archaic...

This ground stone axehead is grooved around three sides for haft bindings. It is very old, probably from the Archaic period (8,000BC to 1,000 BC).

This ground stone axehead is grooved around three sides for haft bindings. It is very old, probably from the Archaic period (8,000BC to 1,000 BC).

This ground stone axehead is grooved around three sides for haft bindings. It is very old, probably from the Archaic period (8,000BC to 1,000 BC).

Caricature mask, Mexico

Caricature mask, Mexico

[H3] Caricature mask, Mexico

This carved dance mask is a particular type in which foreigners are represented as caricatures in secular dance...

This carved dance mask is a particular type in which foreigners are represented as caricatures in secular dance performances.

This carved dance mask is a particular type in which foreigners are represented as caricatures in secular dance performances.

This carved dance mask is a particular type in which foreigners are represented as caricatures in secular dance performances.

Gold torc, Scotland

Gold torc, Scotland

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This gold torc is part of the Law Farm Hoard found during spring ploughing in 1857 in Moray, Scotland. The hoard...

This gold torc is part of the Law Farm Hoard found during spring ploughing in 1857 in Moray, Scotland. The hoard has been described as the ‘richest gold find from Bronze Age Scotland’...

This gold torc is part of the Law Farm Hoard found during spring ploughing in 1857 in Moray, Scotland. The hoard has been described as the ‘richest gold find from Bronze Age Scotland’ and contained at least...

This gold torc is part of the Law Farm Hoard found during spring ploughing in 1857 in Moray, Scotland. The hoard has been described as the ‘richest gold find from Bronze Age Scotland’ and contained at least 36 torcs.

Glass bead with face, Cyprus

Glass bead with face, Cyprus

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This 2500-year-old cylindrical glass bead features a human face on both sides.

Malangan, Papua New Guinea

Malangan, Papua New Guinea

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This malangan carving is a painted wooden ornament with a central face and matching fish designs at the ends with...

This malangan carving is a painted wooden ornament with a central face and matching fish designs at the ends with green operculum shell eyes.

This malangan carving is a painted wooden ornament with a central face and matching fish designs at the ends with green operculum shell eyes.

This malangan carving is a painted wooden ornament with a central face and matching fish designs at the ends with green operculum shell eyes.

Metate, Central America

Metate, Central America

[H3] Metate, Central America

In Mesoamerica, women used metates (grinding stones) of volcanic rock for food preparation.

Ox-scapula shovel, UK

Ox-scapula shovel, UK

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This shovel was discovered during excavations at the stone circle and earthworks in Avebury, Wiltshire in 1909,...

This shovel was discovered during excavations at the stone circle and earthworks in Avebury, Wiltshire in 1909, and dates to between 2900 and 2600BC.

This shovel was discovered during excavations at the stone circle and earthworks in Avebury, Wiltshire in 1909, and dates to between 2900 and 2600BC.

This shovel was discovered during excavations at the stone circle and earthworks in Avebury, Wiltshire in 1909, and dates to between 2900 and 2600BC.

Pottery lamp, Pakistan

Pottery lamp, Pakistan

[H3] Pottery lamp, Pakistan

This pottery vessel was excavated from Nal in the Indus Valley (located in present day Pakistan) and dates to around...

This pottery vessel was excavated from Nal in the Indus Valley (located in present day Pakistan) and dates to around 2500BC. The container is assumed to be an oil lamp, and the corners...

This pottery vessel was excavated from Nal in the Indus Valley (located in present day Pakistan) and dates to around 2500BC. The container is assumed to be an oil lamp, and the corners would have supported wick...

This pottery vessel was excavated from Nal in the Indus Valley (located in present day Pakistan) and dates to around 2500BC. The container is assumed to be an oil lamp, and the corners would have supported wicks.

Roman shoe, Egypt

Roman shoe, Egypt

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This leather shoe and detachable sole were excavated in 1899 at Illatum, Egypt by the archaeologist William Matthew...

This leather shoe and detachable sole were excavated in 1899 at Illatum, Egypt by the archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie. It dates to the Roman occupation of Ancient Egypt...

This leather shoe and detachable sole were excavated in 1899 at Illatum, Egypt by the archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie. It dates to the Roman occupation of Ancient Egypt (30BC to 395AD).

This leather shoe and detachable sole were excavated in 1899 at Illatum, Egypt by the archaeologist William Matthew Flinders Petrie. It dates to the Roman occupation of Ancient Egypt (30BC to 395AD).

Textile fragment depicting hummingbirds, Peru

Textile fragment depicting hummingbirds, Peru

[H3] Textile fragment depicting hummingbirds, Peru

This border looks like it was knitted as a 'free structure', but it is actually embroidered using a cross-knit...

This border looks like it was knitted as a 'free structure', but it is actually embroidered using a cross-knit loop stitch, which closely resembles knitting.

This border looks like it was knitted as a 'free structure', but it is actually embroidered using a cross-knit loop stitch, which closely resembles knitting.

This border looks like it was knitted as a 'free structure', but it is actually embroidered using a cross-knit loop stitch, which closely resembles knitting.

USB stick, UK

USB stick, UK

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Archaeological objects can provide a snapshot of individual lives and cultural practices at a point in time, and...

Archaeological objects can provide a snapshot of individual lives and cultural practices at a point in time, and we are actively creating that archaeology all the time.

Archaeological objects can provide a snapshot of individual lives and cultural practices at a point in time, and we are actively creating that archaeology all the time.

Archaeological objects can provide a snapshot of individual lives and cultural practices at a point in time, and we are actively creating that archaeology all the time.

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[H3] Our services

The Museum has a number of facilities to support research visits. Our staff are on hand to support requests, including the documenting and digitising of fieldwork collections. We support more than 600 research visits every year. We will do everything we can to provide access, and apologize if we cannot accomodate your request due to limitations on staff time or the fragility of items requested.

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The work of conservators underpins every aspect of Museum activity, and their understanding of the diverse materials from which ethnographic artefacts are made is vital. As well as conserving artefacts, they advise on the control of the Museum's environment, prevent insect attacks without deploying dangerous pesticides, and oversee the safe packing of artefacts for international loan or safe storage.
The case studies on this page document the work of the conservators responsible for safeguarding the 300,000 artefacts in the Museum's collections.

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Care and conservation policy (PDF)
Collections development policy (PDF)
Loan condition policy (Word)

For ethnography and archaeology collections enquiries: objects.colls@prm.ox.ac.uk
For photograph and manuscript collections enquiries: ms-photo.colls@prm.ox.ac.uk

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[H3] Research

On this page: Research staff   |    Research community   |    Research projects    |    Research partnerships    |    Featured publications    |    Public engagement with research   |   Research videos
If you would like to use the Museum's collections in your own research, please see using our collections.

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Our research team was shortlisted in the Research Culture category at the Vice-Chancellor's Awards 2024
The Pitt Rivers Museum is a renowned centre for research on material culture, art and photography.
With strong historical links to the teaching of anthropology and archaeology in the University of Oxford, the Museum today seeks to bring together researchers from a variety of disciplines to explore critical themes that connect people all over the world to its rich collections and the histories they hold.

Making the Museum

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Making the Museum

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Investigating maker/subject identities and agencies

Digital repatriation of the Gaidinliu collection

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Digital repatriation of the Gaidinliu collection

[H3] Digital repatriation of the Gaidinliu collection

Rethinking, reframing, and challenging a Naga collection with local partners

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[H3] Meeting the challenges of the Ivory Act

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Prof Paul Basu

Prof Paul Basu

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Curator

Professor of Anthropology

Dr Timothy Baxter

Dr Timothy Baxter

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Research Fellow in Biocultural Heritage

Dr Ashley Coutu

Dr Ashley Coutu

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Acting Head of Curatorial, Research and Teaching

Senior Research Curator

Rosa Dyer

Rosa Dyer

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AHRC CDP Doctoral researcher

Prof Clare Harris

Prof Clare Harris

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Curator for Asia

Head of the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography (October 2024 - October 2027)

Prof Dan Hicks

Prof Dan Hicks

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Curator of World Archaeology

Professor of Contemporary Archaeology

Dr Brinn Hodgett

Dr Brinn Hodgett

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(Former) Project Researcher

Hadiqa Khan

Hadiqa Khan

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AHRC CDP Doctoral researcher

Dr Becky Martin

Dr Becky Martin

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Project Researcher

Prof Christopher Morton

Prof Christopher Morton

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Acting Director

Professor of Museum Anthropology

Dr Emily Stevenson

Dr Emily Stevenson

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Leverhulme Early Career Fellow

Junior Research Fellow, Linacre College

Dr Marenka Thompson-Odlum

Dr Marenka Thompson-Odlum

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Research Curator (Critical Perspectives)

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Dr Roba AlSalibi

Dr Roba AlSalibi

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Associate Researcher

Dr Brook Andrew

Dr Brook Andrew

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Artist

Honorary Research Associate

Dr Joshua A. Bell

Dr Joshua A. Bell

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National Museum of Natural History, USA

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Paul Betts

Prof Paul Betts

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Faculty of History, Oxford

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Alison K. Brown

Prof Alison K. Brown

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Personal Chair in Social Anthropology & Honorary Curatorial Fellow, University of Aberdeen

Honorary Research Associate

Raksha Dave

Raksha Dave

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Archaeologist and broadcaster

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Chris Dorsett

Prof Chris Dorsett

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Artist

Associate Researcher

Prof Elizabeth Edwards FBA

Prof Elizabeth Edwards FBA

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Curator Emerita

Honorary Research Associate

Dr Elizabeth Ewart

Dr Elizabeth Ewart

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Associate Professor in the Anthropology of Lowland South America

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Anthony Gardner

Prof Anthony Gardner

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Ruskin School of Art, Oxford

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Chris Gosden FBA

Prof Chris Gosden FBA

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Professor of European Archaeology, Oxford

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Elizabeth Hallam

Prof Elizabeth Hallam

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Research Associate in the School of Anthropology and Museum Ethnography, Oxford

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Margaret Hillenbrand

Prof Margaret Hillenbrand

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Associate Professor of Modern Chinese Literature and Culture, Faculty of Oriental Studies, Oxford

Honorary Research Associate

Dr Gwyneira Isaac

Dr Gwyneira Isaac

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Curator of North American Ethnology, National Museum of Natural History, USA

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Geraldine Johnson

Prof Geraldine Johnson

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Associate Professor in History of Art & Fellow of Christ Church, Oxford

Honorary Research Associate

Dr Laurel Kendall

Dr Laurel Kendall

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Curator, Asian Ethnographic Collections, American Museum of Natural History, USA

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Corinne Kratz

Prof Corinne Kratz

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Professor Emerita of Anthropology and African Studies, Emory University, USA

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Morten Kringelbach

Prof Morten Kringelbach

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Associate Professor and Senior Research Fellow, Department of Psychiatry, Oxford

Honorary Research Associate

Patti Langton

Patti Langton

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Wolfson College, Oxford

Associate Researcher

Prof Robert Iliffe

Prof Robert Iliffe

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Professor of the History of Science, Oxford

Honorary Research Associate

Dr Noel Lobley

Dr Noel Lobley

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Music Dept, University of Virginia, USA

Associate Researcher

Dr Chris Low

Dr Chris Low

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Khwa ttu San Culture and Education Centre, South Africa

Associate Researcher

Prof Jane Lydon

Prof Jane Lydon

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Chair of Australian History, University of Western Australia

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Sharon Macdonald

Prof Sharon Macdonald

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Professor of Social Anthropology in the Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Wayne Modest

Prof Wayne Modest

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Professor of Material Culture and Critical Heritage Studies, Vrije Universiteit Amsterdam

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Howard Morphy

Prof Howard Morphy

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Curator Emeritus & Australian National University

Honorary Research Associate

Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach

Dr Hélène Neveu Kringelbach

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Senior Lecturer in African Studies, University College London (UCL)

Associate Researcher

Dr Vibe Nielsen

Dr Vibe Nielsen

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Associate Researcher

Research Fellow, Linacre College

Dr David Odo

Dr David Odo

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Director, Georgia Museum of Art

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Michael O’Hanlon

Prof Michael O’Hanlon

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Curator Emeritus

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Laura Peers

Prof Laura Peers

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Curator Emerita for the Americas Collections

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Chris Pinney

Prof Chris Pinney

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Professor of Anthropology and Visual Culture at University College London

Honorary Research Associate

Dr David Pratten

Dr David Pratten

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School of Anthropology, Oxford

Honorary Research Associate

Prof Gillian Rose

Prof Gillian Rose

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Professor of Human Geography, Oxford

Honorary Research Associate

Dr Anna Sephton

Dr Anna Sephton

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Associate Researcher

Dr Sydney Stewart Rose

Dr Sydney Stewart Rose

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Director of Public Memory Research, Montag Centre for Overseas Study, Stanford University

Dr Christian Thompson AO

Dr Christian Thompson AO

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Honorary Research Associate

Dr Jaanika Vider

Dr Jaanika Vider

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Associate Researcher

Lecturer in anthropology (Tallinn University)

Prof Dame Sarah Whatmore

Prof Dame Sarah Whatmore

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Professor of Environment and Public Policy

Honorary Research Associate

Prof David Zeitlyn

Prof David Zeitlyn

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Professor of Social Anthropology (Research)

Honorary Research Associate

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[H3] Rethinking Relationships and Building Trust Around African Collections

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[H3] Recirculating sound recordings in NE India

A collaboration with the Archives and Research Center for Ethnomusicology (ARCE), and the Highland Institute in Kohima

Borneo boat lute revival

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Borneo boat lute revival

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Megalithic Connections: Imperilled Cultural Heritage in Laos and India

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Megalithic Connections: Imperilled Cultural Heritage in Laos and India

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The Anthropological Lens: Rethinking E. E. Evans-Pritchard (OUP 2019)

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[H3] Ashley Coutu

"Sourcing Elephant Ivory from a Sixteenth-Century Portuguese Shipwreck", Current Biology, Volume 31, Issue 3, pp621-628 (2020).

Clare Harris

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Clare Harris

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Photography and Tibet. London: Reaktion Books, 2016.

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[H3] Dan Hicks

The Brutish Museums: the Benin Bronzes, Colonial Violence and Cultural Restitution (Pluto Press 2020)

Jeremy Uden

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Jeremy Uden

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'The Conservation and Display of the Tahitian Mourner’s Costume at the Pitt Rivers Museum, University of Oxford' in M.M. Brooks and D.D. Eastop (eds.) Refashioning and Redress: Conserving and Displaying Dress. Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2017.

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[H3] Christopher Morton

Rephotography as a value creation technology in the nineteenth century: collecting, reproducing and exchanging

Laura Van Broekhoven

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Laura Van Broekhoven

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'Calibrating relevance at the Pitt Rivers Museum', in J. Pellew and L. Goldman (eds.) Dethroning historical reputations: universities, museums and the commemoration of benefactors. London: University of London, Institute of Historical Research, 2018. (PDF)

Dan Hicks

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Dan Hicks

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‘The temporality of the landscape revisited’, Norwegian Archaeological Review, 49: 5-39, 2016.

Christopher Morton

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Christopher Morton

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‘The graphicalization of description: drawing and photography in the fieldwork journals and museum work of Henry Balfour’, Anthropology and Photography, Vol. 10 (London: Royal Anthropological Institute). (PDF)

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