Challis, DJ;
(2015)
The Petrie Museum of 'Race' Archaeology?
Think Pieces: A Journal of the Joint Faculty Institute of Graduate Studies
, 1
pp. 34-43.
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Abstract
The essay makes the case that the Petrie Museum at UCL—a collection of objects from Egypt and Sudan comprising over 7,000 years of history from the Nile valley in northern Africa—is as much a museum of ‘race’ archaeology as Egyptian archaelogy. Tracing the relationship between slavery, racism and curatorial practices at museums, I excavate the lifelong beliefs of William Petrie in migration, racial mixing and skull measuring through objects such as the craniometer now housed at the Department of Statistical Sciences. The correlation of racialised groups and purported intelligence in Petrie’s work is examined, and I finally claim that his ideas need to be re-examined for an understanding of the Petrie Museum and their legacy within UCL today.
Type: | Article |
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Title: | The Petrie Museum of 'Race' Archaeology? |
Open access status: | An open access version is available from UCL Discovery |
Publisher version: | http://ojs.lib.ucl.ac.uk/index.php/jfigs |
Language: | English |
URI: | https://discovery.ucl.ac.uk/id/eprint/1460733 |
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