Dividing the Spoils (eBook)

Henrietta Lidchi is Chief Curator at the National Museum van Wereldculturen, Netherlands, and a Research Fellow at National Museums Scotland Stuart Allan is Keeper of Scottish History and Archaeology at National Museums Scotland

Introduction: dividing the spoils – Henrietta Lidchi and Stuart Allan

Part I Ideologies of empire and governance
1 Spoils of war: custom and practice – Edward M. Spiers
2 The agency of objects: a contrasting choreography of flags, military booty and skulls from late nineteenth-century Africa – John Mack
3 Collecting and the trophy – John M. MacKenzie

Part II Military collecting cultures
4 Soldiering archaeology: Pitt Rivers and collecting ‘Primitive Warfare’ – Christopher Evans
5 The officers’ mess: an anthropology and history of the military interior – Lt Col Charles Kirke (Rtd) and Nicole M. Hartwell
6 Seeing Tibet through soldiers’ eyes: photograph albums in regimental museums – Henrietta Lidchi with Rosanna Nicolson
7 A regimental culture of collecting – Desmond Thomas

Part III The afterlives of military collections
8 Military histories of ‘Summer Palace’ objects from China in military museums in the United Kingdom – Louise Tythacott
9 Indigenising folk art: eighteenth-century powder horns in British military collections – Stuart Allan and Henrietta Lidchi
10 Community consultation and shaping of the National Army Museum’s Insight gallery – Alastair Massie
11 Mementoes of power and conquest: Sikh jewellery in the collection of National Museums Scotland – Friederike Voigt

Afterword: material reckonings with military histories – Henrietta Lidchi

Archival sources
Bibliography
Index