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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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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autor principal: Penny, H. Glenn (Autor)
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Alemán
Publicado: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2021.
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.