GANGTOK, 14 Apr: The Pitt Rivers Museum at the University of Oxford is one of the world’s more expansive museums of anthropology and archaeology in terms of the size, range and historical importance of its collections. A part of this museum is “The Tibet Album” which presents more than 6000 photographs spanning 30 years of Tibet’s history.
These extraordinary photographs are a unique record of people long gone and places changed beyond all recognition. They also document the ways that British visitors encountered Tibet and Tibetans. Interestingly several of the iconic photographs of Sikkim and its people form part of this collection.
Interested persons and students of history, anthropology and sociology now have the chance to hear Clare E. Harris, Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology and Curator for Asian Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, speak about this collection and about the significance of visual anthropology. Dr. Harris is scheduled to deliver a public lecture here at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology on 16 April [3 p.m.], titled, “Greetings from Darjeeling: Hill Stations, Tourism and Photography in late nineteenth/early 20th century British India”.
She is also a Fellow of Magdalen College. Her publications, curatorial activities and research have focused on the material and visual culture of Tibet and the Himalayas. In addition to many articles, she has produced four books to date including a pioneering study of modern Tibetan art In the Image of Tibet: Tibetan Painting after 1959 (Reaktion Books, 1999) and The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics and the Representation of Tibet (University of Chicago Press 2012), which has won the E. Gene Smith Book Prize from the Association of Asian Studies.
Dr. Harris has curated exhibitions both at the Pitt Rivers Museum and elsewhere and she was instrumental in the creation of ‘The Tibet Album’, a website and research tool featuring six thousand historic photographs of Tibet that was launched by the 14th Dalai Lama in Oxford in 2008.
These extraordinary photographs are a unique record of people long gone and places changed beyond all recognition. They also document the ways that British visitors encountered Tibet and Tibetans. Interestingly several of the iconic photographs of Sikkim and its people form part of this collection.
Interested persons and students of history, anthropology and sociology now have the chance to hear Clare E. Harris, Associate Professor in Visual Anthropology and Curator for Asian Collections at the Pitt Rivers Museum, speak about this collection and about the significance of visual anthropology. Dr. Harris is scheduled to deliver a public lecture here at the Namgyal Institute of Tibetology on 16 April [3 p.m.], titled, “Greetings from Darjeeling: Hill Stations, Tourism and Photography in late nineteenth/early 20th century British India”.
She is also a Fellow of Magdalen College. Her publications, curatorial activities and research have focused on the material and visual culture of Tibet and the Himalayas. In addition to many articles, she has produced four books to date including a pioneering study of modern Tibetan art In the Image of Tibet: Tibetan Painting after 1959 (Reaktion Books, 1999) and The Museum on the Roof of the World: Art, Politics and the Representation of Tibet (University of Chicago Press 2012), which has won the E. Gene Smith Book Prize from the Association of Asian Studies.
Dr. Harris has curated exhibitions both at the Pitt Rivers Museum and elsewhere and she was instrumental in the creation of ‘The Tibet Album’, a website and research tool featuring six thousand historic photographs of Tibet that was launched by the 14th Dalai Lama in Oxford in 2008.
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