Main entry:

Bowden, Mark.

Title & Author:

Pitt Rivers : the life and archaeological work of Lieutenant-General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers, DCL, FRS, FSA / Mark Bowden.

Publication:

Cambridge [England] ; New York : Cambridge University Press, 1991.

Description:

xv, 182 pages : illustrations ; 26 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 168-176) and index.
1. Introduction -- 2. Progress in modern musketry -- 3 Married life -- 4. Ethnology and anthropology -- 5. Early archaeological fieldwork -- 6. The Inspector of Ancient Monuments -- 7. Excavations in Cranborne Chase -- 8. Public education -- 9. The father of scientific archaeology.
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Dust jacket.

Summary:

A flamboyant polymath, General Augustus Henry Lane Fox Pitt Rivers (1827-1900) was influential in four fields during his lifetime: military training, anthropology, archaeology and public education. Yet very little is known about his career, character, or motivation. Mark Bowden has written an entertaining and thoroughly researched biography of the General, which describes his stormy relationships with his wife, children, colleagues, tenants and dependants; his military career; his activities in public education; and his contributions to anthropology and archaeology. In particular he assesses his impact as excavator, field archaeologist, theoretician and first Inspector of Ancient Monuments on the development of British archaeology. This is the most complete biography of a controversial man whose methods and ideals have been much quoted but frequently misunderstood and misrepresented.

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ISBN:

0521400775
9780521400770

Subject:

Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane-Fox, 1827-1900.
Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry, 1827-1900.
Pitt Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane Fox, (1827-1900)
Fox-Pitt-Rivers, Augustus Henry Lane, (1820-1900)
Archaeology Great Britain History 19th century.
Archaeologists Great Britain Biography.
Generals Great Britain Biography.
Archaeology history
Archéologie Grande-Bretagne Histoire 19e siècle.
Archéologues Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Généraux Grande-Bretagne Biographies.
Antiquities.
Archaeologists.
Archaeology.
Generals.
Archeologie.
Archeologen.
Archéologues Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle Biographies.
Fouilles archéologiques Grande-Bretagne 19e siècle.
Great Britain Antiquities.
Great Britain.

Form/genre:

Biography
Biographies.
collective biographies.
History.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 282511
Call No.: BIB 220124
Status: Available