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Adam Kuper was most recently Centennial Professor of Anthropology at the London School of Economics and a visiting professor at Boston University. A Fellow of the British Academy and a recipient of the Huxley Medal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, Kuper has appeared on BBC TV and radio and reviewed regularly for the LRB and TLS, among others.
'A formidable work ... one whose want has been much felt' - Nigel Barley, former Assistant Keeper at the British Museum and author 'A magnificent, moving survey ... Kuper's case is strong and his voice - erudite and elegiac - commands respect' - Felipe Fernandez-Armesto 'A provocative look at questions of ethnography, ownership and restitution ... should be required reading for the trustees of big museums everywhere' - Richard Lambert 'Material for thought ... Nothing beats reading this book, without bias but with a sort of peaceful objectivity, sometimes polemical' - Olivier Gabet, Director of the Department of Art at the Louvre 'This is the must-read book for anyone interested in the history of ethnographic museums and how the urban public of Western industrial nations learned about the myriad ""other people"" living on our planet. Kuper applies his monumental knowledge of the history of anthropological scholarship to lay out his vision of how the ethnographic museums were born, thrived, and eventually moved to the margins of public imagination. Yet, as he rightly claims, big ethnographic museums face new beginnings in the 21st century - ones defined by creative exhibits, ethical stewardship, and modern education about lives and cultures of world's ""other people""' - Igor Krupnik, Chair of Anthropology and Curator of Circumpolar Ethnology at the National Museum of Natural History, Smithsonian Institution
