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| Name | Reflections on the First Fifty Years of the Peabody Museum, 1866–1916 |
| Video Uploader | Video From Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology |
| Upload Date | This Video Uploaded At 22-11-2016 14:50:37 |
| Video Discription | Curtis Hinsley, Regents’ Professor Emeritus of History and Comparative Cultural Studies, Northern Arizona University The Peabody Museum was founded at a time of epistemological and political turmoil, seven years after the publication of Darwin’s On the Origin of Species and one year after the end of the Civil War. The chaotic decades following the war proved to be an era of unprecedented economic opportunity, but also a time of corruption, disillusionment, and oppression. In the world of instruction, museums held the promise of teaching not only scientific facts, but proper values as well; a museum of anthropology might serve a vital moral function in the emerging society. As Peabody director Frederic Putnam wrote in 1891: “Many an indifferent idler straggling into a well-arranged museum goes forth with new ideas and fresh interests” to enrich “an otherwise aimless and weary life.” In this lecture Curtis Hinsley will consider the hopes and intentions of the Peabody Museum in its early years. Presented as part of the Peabody Museum of Archaeology & Ethnology's 150th anniversary. |
| Category | Education |
| Tags | peabody museum | harvard university | cambridge |
