"By a coincidence it was in the year of the Great Exhibition, 1851,
that Captain Harry Lane-Fox, later to take the name of Pitt-Rivers,
began collecting fire arms before going on to collect almost everything
else in the world ....The first lecturer on the Pitt-River collection, E.B.
Tylor, later to be knighted, was one of the founding fathers of
anthropology.... It was through nineteenth-century anthropology that
the concept of 'material culture' was explicitly introduced into the
study of things...." Asa Brigs (1989), Victorian
Things (pages 29 & 30).
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