The Museum of Other People: From Colonial Acquisitions to Cosmopolitan Exhibitions

$35.00 at Cooper Hewitt, Smithsonian Design Museum.

“A provocative look at questions of ethnography, ownership and restitution . . . the argument [Kuper] makes in The Museum of Other People is important precisely because just about no one else is making it. He asks the questions that others are too shy to pose. . . . Required reading.” –Financial Times (UK)In this deeply researched, immersive history, Adam Kuper tells the story of how foreign and prehistoric peoples and cultures were represented in Western museums of anthropology. Originally created as…