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3 unusual facts about Ethnography at the British Museum


Ethnography at the British Museum

Karl Marx who produced his Ethnographic Notebooks was a regular user of the Reading Room when it housed the British Library.

From 1970 to 2004 the Department of Ethnography of the British Museum was housed at 6 Burlington Gardens, displaying collections from the Americas, Africa, the Pacific and Australia, as well as tribal Asia and Europe.

It was created by Keeper of Ethnography Adrian Digby in the 1960s, and opened by his successor William Fagg.


Anthropological Index Online

The service indexes the journals received by The Anthropology Library at The British Museum (formerly at the Museum of Mankind), which receives periodicals in all branches of anthropology from academic institutions and publishers around the world.


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