Mark Elliott
Dr Mark Elliott is Senior Curator for Anthropology at the Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology, where he is responsible for Asian collections. His particular research interests focus on India and Southeast Asia. His doctoral research (1999-2003) explored interactions between visitors, curators and collections at the Indian Museum, Kolkata. Subsequent research and publications have focused on the ethnographic portrait sculptures of Indian men and women by Marguerite Milward in the 1930s, with recent research in Nagaland and Gujarat using historic photographs. He has worked on over 20 exhibitions, including Assembling Bodies (2009), Gifts & Discoveries (2012) and Buddha’s Word: The Life of Books in Tibet and Beyond (2014). His current research is on the art and material culture of indigenous and adivasi communities in India, towards an exhibition at MAA in 2017. He teaches on museum anthropology, exhibitions and visual and material culture in South Asia at graduate and undergraduate level.
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in museums and for other purposes such as teaching
before the advent of digital technologies. Many different
types of replica exist and each object and each category
of replica has its own history which it is not possible to
reproduce in a single book chapter. Instead, we have
chosen to focus on a single case study, a group of plaster
casts of Classical Maya monuments at the Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA), University
of Cambridge, where they have come to be known as
the ‘Maudslay Casts’. Through this case study we will
show how attitudes towards replicas in general – and
these replicas in particular – have changed over time.
We will conclude by questioning what future roles the
casts might have in a digital world.
Books
Exhibitions
in museums and for other purposes such as teaching
before the advent of digital technologies. Many different
types of replica exist and each object and each category
of replica has its own history which it is not possible to
reproduce in a single book chapter. Instead, we have
chosen to focus on a single case study, a group of plaster
casts of Classical Maya monuments at the Museum of
Archaeology and Anthropology (MAA), University
of Cambridge, where they have come to be known as
the ‘Maudslay Casts’. Through this case study we will
show how attitudes towards replicas in general – and
these replicas in particular – have changed over time.
We will conclude by questioning what future roles the
casts might have in a digital world.