Available from the Peabody
All Peabody Museum Press books are available for purchase directly from the Museum. Most are also sold and distributed by Harvard University Press. The titles listed on this page, however, are available only from the Peabody Museum Press or from your local bookseller.
Titles
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Avenue Patrice Lumumba: Photographs by Guy Tillim
Foreword by Robert Gardner.
“'Guy Tillim … combines a profound sense of historic documentation of African countries ravaged by conflicts and tragedies of all kinds and a very stringent formal aesthetic devoid of all mannerism.”'
—Michket Krifa
As the first recipient of the Robert Gardner Fellowship in Photography at the Peabody Museum, Guy Tillim traveled through Angola, Mozambique, Congo, and Madagascar, documenting the grand colonial architecture and how it has become part of a contemporary African stage. His photographs reveal the decay and detritus of colonialism in Western and Southern Africa and convey an acute sense of humanity.
Tillim is an award-winning photographer from South Africa. His photographic documentation of social conflict and inequality in the countries of Africa has been exhibited in more than a dozen countries and widely published.
Published in January 2009 by the Peabody Museum Press and Prestel Verlag, Munich. 128 pages with 60 color photographs.
Cloth $65.
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Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis and Clark's Indian Collection
By Castle McLaughlin.
Photographs by Hillel S. Burger.
Foreword by James P. Ronda.
"With its publication of Arts of Diplomacy: Lewis and Clark's Indian Collection, the Peabody Museum once again brings distinction to itself and the museum profession. Theirs is a seminal, expansive, and probing venture that has resulted in a handsome, readable, and profoundly significant volume."
-Oregon Historical Quarterly
When Meriwether Lewis and William Clark led the Corps of Discovery across the American West, they were acting as Thomas Jefferson’s emissaries to the Native American peoples they encountered along the way. In Arts of Diplomacy Castle McLaughlin challenges conventional wisdom about the expedition and reveals it as a complex process of diplomacy, mutual discovery, and exchange. The vehicle for this analysis is the Peabody Museum’s “‘Lewis and Clark collection,”‘ a set of magnificent eighteenth- and early nineteenth-century objects long thought to be the only surviving ethnographic items acquired by the Corps.
McLaughlin and her colleagues—including scholars Gaylord Torrence and Anne-Marie Victor-Howe—conducted painstaking analyses of these buffalo robes, basketry hats, and ceremonial pipes and traced their histories from public and private collections to their probable sources among Native makers and users. With contributions by Wasco basketry artist Pat Courtney Gold, Mandan-Hidatsa community activist Mike Cross, and other contemporary Native artists, Arts of Diplomacy presents a model for how museum collections can be coaxed to tell their own vivid stories.
Castle McLaughlin is Associate Curator of Native American Ethnography at the Peabody Museum.
Published by the Peabody Museum Press and the University of Washington Press, 416 pages with 195 illustrations, 150 in color. notes, bibliography, index. 8¾ x 10¾.
Cloth $60, paper $40.
Signed copies available upon request.
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Finding Aid for the Philippines Collection
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
By Erin Hasinoff.
This guide to the Museum's 2,729 objects from the Philippines is a useful reference tool for researchers interested in the objects themselves and in the archival information related to the accessions and the collectors.
86 pages, 1 color photo, bibliography, 8½ x 11.
Comb-bound photocopy $25.00.
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Finding Aid for Tibet and Areas of Influence
Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, Harvard University.
By Laura Kogonis.
Tibetan culture is an important component of the local cultures throughout a vast area of Inner Asia, influencing communities from Mongolia to Siberia, from Bhutan and Sikkim to Ladakh and Nepal. This finding aid is a research guide to the Peabody's collection of over 850 objects from Tibet and areas of Tibetan influence.
41 pages, 1 color photo, 8½ x 11.
Comb-bound photocopy $15.
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Archaeological Field Notebook
This 80-page metric-grid notebook, prepared by the Peabody Museum of Archaeology and Ethnology, is indispensable for the student or professional practitioner of field archaeology.
Paper, 7 5/8 x 10.
$7.50.
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