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Baggage and Belonging: Military Collections and the British Empire (1750-1900)

行李和物品：军事收藏和大英帝国（1750-1900）

基本信息

批准号：
AH/P006752/1
负责人：
Henrietta Lidchi
金额：
$ 49.73万
依托单位：
National Museums Scotland
依托单位国家：
英国
项目类别：
Research Grant
财政年份：
2017
资助国家：
英国
起止时间：
2017 至无数据
项目状态：
已结题

来源：
https://gtr.ukri.org/projects?ref=AH%2FP006752%2F1
关键词：
Baggage Belonging Military Collections British

项目摘要

Over 130 military museums in the UK preserve the historical collections of British regiments, corps and services. Their collections contain artefacts acquired by British servicemen in colonial warfare and on imperial garrison duties across the globe, variously acquired as trophies, prize, souvenirs, curios and specimens. These artefacts are little known outside the constituency of military history and within their current institutions rarely researched in reference to their complex intercultural biographies. Focussing on military campaigns in India and Africa from 1750 to 1900, this project will undertake an interdisciplinary reappraisal of military collections. By tracing collections histories through archival evidence it will both investigate the meaning of non-European artefacts in military organisational culture and their value as material witnesses of encounters between non-European peoples and imperial forces. Research questions include: 1. What does the pattern of taking, recording and modification of objects tell us about the characteristics of British military collecting in the context of colonial and imperial warfare?2. How does a more nuanced analysis of the transference of objects in war revise our understanding of colonial and post-colonial relationships? 3. How did military governance, cultural sanction and contingency work to establish boundaries around the taking and disposal of objects? 4. How can we address the tensions between the original communal role of these military collections and their contemporary function in public military museums?The material legacy of non-European military campaigns in military and non-military museums is widespread, yet the systematic understanding of this legacy is virtually absent from the analytical and historical literature. Military collecting offers an under-developed source for critically reappraising the linkages between museum collections and imperial history in the post-colonial period. Colonial African and Indian campaigns (estimated as 60-70% of total non-European collections) will be tracked through multiple military museum collections examined in tandem with institutional records, archives, registers, as well as biographies, diaries and photographs related to individual collectors. An in-depth examination of objects and documents will deliver a more multifaceted understanding of military governance, communal military culture and individual agency. The project will highlight hidden histories of taking and retention, going beyond the simplistic view of all such military artefacts as 'loot'. This revisionist approach will allow comparisons across former European imperial powers of a complex and controversial topic. It will enable a critical reassessment of the relevance of these collecting practices and material legacies today. The multidisciplinary project team at National Museums Scotland (NMS) will be supported by an academic and museum-based Advisory Board drawn from the fields of visual and museum anthropology, military history, military anthropology and archaeology. Comparative analysis will draw on research from previous pilot projects undertaken on campaigns in Tibet, China, New Zealand and North America. The National Army Museum (NAM), the project partner, also holds extensive collections and has the wider networks (including the Army Museums Ogilby Trust) to assist with the delivery of knowledge exchange workshops and the organisation of the international seminar. Outputs will include two knowledge exchange workshops, an international seminar, a special exhibition (National War Museum, National Museums Scotland, Edinburgh), enhanced gallery interpretation (National Army Museum, London; National Museum of Scotland and National War Museum, Edinburgh), community engagement, online features and pdf catalogue information, and 3-4 publications (articles and a book in addition to non-refereed articles).

英国有 130 多个军事博物馆保存着英国军团、军团和军种的历史藏品。他们的藏品包括英国军人在殖民战争和全球各地的帝国驻军任务中获得的文物，这些文物以奖杯、奖品、纪念品、古玩和标本的形式获得。这些文物在军事历史领域之外鲜为人知，在其当前的机构内也很少根据其复杂的跨文化传记进行研究。该项目将以 1750 年至 1900 年印度和非洲的军事行动为重点，将对军事藏品进行跨学科的重新评估。通过档案证据追溯收藏历史，它将调查非欧洲文物在军事组织文化中的意义及其作为非欧洲人民与帝国军队之间相遇的物质见证的价值。研究问题包括： 1. 物品的获取、记录和修改模式告诉我们什么是殖民和帝国战争背景下英国军事收藏的特征？2.对战争中物体转移的更细致的分析如何修正我们对殖民和后殖民关系的理解？ 3. 军事治理、文化制裁和应急措施如何在物品的获取和处置方面建立界限？ 4. 我们如何解决这些军事藏品最初的公共角色与它们在公共军事博物馆中的当代功能之间的紧张关系？军事和非军事博物馆中非欧洲军事战役的物质遗产是广泛存在的，但分析和历史文献中实际上缺乏对这种遗产的系统理解。军事收藏为批判性地重新评估后殖民时期博物馆藏品与帝国历史之间的联系提供了一个尚未开发的资源。非洲和印度殖民地战役（估计占非欧洲藏品总数的 60-70%）将通过多个军事博物馆藏品进行跟踪，并与机构记录、档案、登记册以及与个人收藏家相关的传记、日记和照片进行检查。对物品和文件的深入研究将使人们对军事治理、共同军事文化和个人机构有更加多方面的了解。该项目将突出隐藏的获取和保留历史，超越将所有此类军事文物视为“战利品”的简单化观点。这种修正主义方法将允许对一个复杂且有争议的话题对前欧洲帝国列强进行比较。它将能够对当今这些收集实践和物质遗产的相关性进行批判性的重新评估。苏格兰国家博物馆 (NMS) 的多学科项目团队将得到来自视觉和博物馆人类学、军事历史、军事人类学和考古学领域的学术和博物馆顾问委员会的支持。比较分析将借鉴之前在西藏、中国、新西兰和北美进行的试点项目的研究。项目合作伙伴国家陆军博物馆 (NAM) 也拥有丰富的藏品，并拥有更广泛的网络（包括陆军博物馆奥吉尔比信托基金），以协助举办知识交流研讨会和组织国际研讨会。产出将包括两次知识交流研讨会、一次国际研讨会、一次特别展览（国家战争博物馆、苏格兰国家博物馆，爱丁堡）、增强的画廊解释（国家陆军博物馆，伦敦；苏格兰国家博物馆和爱丁堡国家战争博物馆）、社区参与、在线专题和 pdf 目录信息以及 3-4 份出版物（除非参考文章外的文章和一本书）。