Near and Desired Things Johanna D. Sagarin and an industrialised culture of

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the bookOs imaginative journey and conflicts remain hidden

socioeconomic conditions

Whistler's legacy has proved as unpredictable and contentious as the man himself

Near and Desired Things Johanna D. Sagarin and an industrialised culture ofNear and Desired Things reveals nineteenth century Siberian museums, built on Indigenous land and increasingly populated by political exiles, as active sites of ethnographic knowledge making and centers of scientific research, regional identity, and colonial authority. Rather than collecting from distant colonies, these institutions concentrated on surrounding communities, their tools, beliefs, and everyday lives, to configure ideas about what counted