tailieunhanh - IELTS Academic Reading 26

Luyện tập với IELTS Academic Reading 26 giúp các bạn hệ thống kiến thức đã học, làm quen với cấu trúc đề thi, đồng thời rèn luyện kỹ năng giải đề giúp bạn tự tin đạt kết quả cao trong kì thi sắp tới. Mời các bạn cùng tham khảo. | IELTS Academic Reading 26 You should spend about 20 minutes on Questions 1 12 which are based on Reading Passage 26 below. THE DEPARTMENT OF ETHNOGRAPHY The Department of Ethnography was created as a separate department within the British Museum in 1946 after 140 years of gradual development from the original Department of Antiquities. If is concerned with the people of Africa the Americas Asia the Pacific and parts of Europe. While this includes complex kingdoms as in Africa and ancient empires such as those of the Americas the primary focus of attention in the twentieth century has been on small-scale societies. Through its collections the Department s specific interest is to document how objects are created and used and to understand their importance and significance to those who produce them. Such objects can include both the extraordinary and the mundane the beautiful and the banal. The collections of the Department of Ethnography include approximately 300 000 artifacts of which about half are the product of the present century. The Department has a vital role to play in providing information on non-Western cultures to visitors and scholars. To this end the collecting emphasis has often been less on individual objects than on groups of material which allow the display of a broad range of a society s cultural expressions. Much of the more recent collecting was carried out in the field sometimes by Museum staff working on general anthropological projects in collaboration with a wide variety of national governments and other institutions. The material collected includes great technical series - for instance of textiles from Bolivia Guatemala Indonesia and areas of West Africa - or of artifact types such as boats. The latter include working examples of coracles from India reed boars from Lake Titicaca in the Andes kayaks from the Arctic and dug-out canoes from several countries. The field assemblages such as those from the Sudan Madagascar and Yemen include a .