Archaeology, Anthropology, and Museums, 1851–2014: Rethinking Pitt-Rivers and His Legacy – An Introduction

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Acknowledgements

Alison Petch and I will have other opportunities to acknowledge the help we received throughout the ‘Rethinking Pitt-Rivers’ project, but this is a good opportunity to thank The Leverhulme Trust for its generosity, and Cambridge University Library and Salisbury Museum for their generous collaboration as project partners. We thank our colleagues at the Pitt Rivers Museum for their support, as well as the other people who got involved in various ways in the work of the project and the creation of the website. They include, amongst others — whom we thank on the website and whom we will thank elsewhere in due course — Mark Bowden, Dan Burt, Katherine Burt, W. R. Chapman, Mark Dickerson, Haas Ezzet, Chris Gosden and Rachel McGoff. We are grateful to everyone who participated in ‘The Many Faces of Pitt-Rivers’ workshop, including the General’s great-grandson Anthony Pitt-Rivers who has been enormously supportive throughout. We are, of course, grateful to our contributors for their contributions and their good-natured responses to our endless queries, and to the editors of Museum History Journal, particularly Peter Davis, for their patience. Finally, I am grateful to Alison Petch for making ‘Rethinking Pitt-Rivers’ and this special issue such enjoyable projects to work on.