From Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia. Ethnographic museums conserve, display and contextualize items relevant to the field of ethnography, the systematic study of people and cultures.

Why is India called an ethnological museum?

The northern part of the country homes the largest mountain range in the world, the Himalayas, which is also the source of plenty of major Indian rivers like Ganga, Indus etc. ... Racial Diversity: India is a place of diverse races, and V. A. Smith rightly called it as “an ethnological museum".

What is museum ethnography?

Museum ethnography, like anthropology itself, is based on the premises. division and difference: the division between consciousness and some sort. of external reality; the division between subject and object; and the whole. series of differences that such divisions engender between the individual.