Suchergebnisse

Introduction : Rethinking German anthropology, colonialism, and race / Matti Bunzl and H. Glenn Penny -- Coming of age in the Pacific : German ethnography from Chamisso to Krämer / Harry Liebersohn -- Völderpsychologie and German-Jewish emancipation / Matti Bunzl -- Bastian's museum : on the limits of empiricism and the transformation of German ethnology / H. Glenn Penny -- Spectacles of (human) nature : commercial ethnography between leisure, learning, and Schaulust / Sierra A. Bruckner -- Adventures in the skin trade : German anthropology and colonial corporeality / Andrew Zimmerman -- Turning native? Anthropology, German colonialism, and the paradoxes of the "acclimatization question," 1885-1914 / Pascal Grosse -- Anthropology at war : racial studies of POWs during World War I / Andrew D. Evans -- Colonizing anthropology : Albert Hahl and the ethnographic frontier in German New Guinea / Rainer Buschmann -- Gathering the hunters : bushmen in German (colonial) anthropology / Robert J. Gordon -- Priests among the pygmies : Wilhelm Schmidt and the counter-reformation in Austrian ethnology / Suzanne Marchand

"This engaging collection of essays discusses the complexities of "being" indigenous in public spaces. Laura R. Graham and H. Glenn Penny bring together a set of highly recognized junior and senior scholars, including indigenous scholars, from a variety of fields to provoke critical thinking about the many ways in which individuals and social groups construct and display unique identities around the world. The case studies in Performing Indigeneity underscore the social, historical, and immediate contextual factors at play when indigenous people make decisions about when, how, why, and who can "be" indigenous in public spaces. Performing Indigeneity invites readers to consider how groups and individuals think about performance and display and focuses attention on the ways that public spheres, both indigenous and nonindigenous ones, have received these performances. The essays demonstrate that performance and display are essential to the creation and persistence of indigeneity, while also presenting the conundrum that in many cases "indigeneity" excludes some of the voices or identities that the category purports to represent. "--

Von den hohen Idealen Alexander von Humboldts bis zum erbitterten Streit um das Humboldt Forum führt ein langer und verschlungener Pfad durch die deutsche Geschichte. Kaum etwas illustriert ihn besser als die ethnologische Sammlung des Berliner Museums - mit 500.000 Objekten eine der größten der Welt. H. Glenn Penny schildert in seinem erhellenden Buch, wie diese gigantische Sammlung entstanden ist, was für Motive dahinter standen und warum ihre ursprüngliche Idee bis heute kaum beachtet wird. Sein Buch ist ein unverzichtbarer Beitrag zur Versachlichung der Debatte um das koloniale Erbe der deutschen Museen.

Looted art, art theft, colonial collections of cultural objects – not only since the controversy over the Nigerian Benin bronzes at the Humboldt Forum in the German capital Berlin and other European museums a dispute over how to deal with exhibits from colonial contexts erupted. The debate, which has been ongoing among experts for some time, gained new political momentum in 2018 when France's President Macron announced that objects of colonial provenance in French museums would be returned to their societies of origin, and initiated concrete steps. The demand for restitution of art treasures of colonial provenance raises fundamental and extremely complex questions about the presence of the past in ethical, scientific, political, legal and aesthetic dimensions. They concern art historians and museum professionals, cultural historians, historians of science, lawyers and history teachers as well as visitors to museums with colonial collections, who are made aware of the provenance of objects there. This volume, published in Germany in 2021, was a first attempt at illuminating the historio-cultural dimensions of the debate and bringing them to the attention of a broader public. German and international authors contributed essays making clear, how important it is to take a differentiated look at a central part of the current social debate on the legacy of colonialism. This volume was well received. As colonialism is by definition an international phenomenon, the current debate in Germany is presented here in an English language version now.

Globalisierung ist kein Gegenwartsphänomen. Die "ganze Welt" hatte bereits um 1900 Konjunktur, als Weltreisen und Weltverkehr den Globus zugänglich und erfahrbar werden ließen. Vor diesem Hintergrund lässt sich die Geschichte des 20. Jahrhunderts als eine Geschichte räumlicher Wahrnehmung und geographischen Wissens schreiben. Die Herausgeberinnen bieten zunächst einen umfassenden Überblick über unterschiedliche Ansätze einer Geschichte des Raums und der "Globalität ". Die Autorinnen und Autoren zeigen dann an Beispielen, wie die Erde vermessen, erfasst und organisiert wurde; sie tragen damit zu einem historisch fundierten Verständnis gegenwärtiger Weltordnungen bei.