In Humboldt's Shadow : A Tragic History of German Ethnology /

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"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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Détails bibliographiques
Auteur principal: Penny, H. Glenn (Auteur)
Format: Électronique eBook
Langue:Inglés
Alemán
Publié: Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, 2021.
Collection:Book collections on Project MUSE.
Sujets:
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859.
Humboldt, Alexander von, > 1769-1859 > Influence.
Influence (Literary, artistic, etc.)
Ethnology.
Ethnologists.
Ethnological museums and collections.
Ethnological museums and collections > Germany > History.
Ethnologists > Germany > History.
Ethnology > Germany > History.
Germany.
History.
Electronic books.
Accès en ligne:Texto completo
Table des matières:
  • 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.

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