In Humboldt's Shadow : A Tragic History of German Ethnology /
"The Berlin Ethnological Museum is one of the largest and most important anthropological museums in the world. Housing over 500,000 objects from non-western cultures assembled since the mid-nineteenth century, the museum's collection was assembled by men who were galvanized by the ambitiou...
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Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
Idioma: | Inglés Alemán |
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Princeton, New Jersey :
Princeton University Press,
2021.
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Colección: | Book collections on Project MUSE.
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Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
Tabla de Contenidos:
- Introduction kihawahine : the future in the past
- Hawaiian feathered cloaks and Mayan sculptures : collecting origins
- The Haida crest pole and the Nootka eagle mask : hypercollecting
- Benin bronzes : colonial questions
- Guatemalan textiles : persisting global networks
- The Yup'ik flying-swan mask : the past in the future
- Epilogue : harnessing Humboldt.