The Magnificent Boat : : The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure / / Götz Aly.
From an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific.Countless museums in the West have been criticized for their looted treasures, but few as trenchantly as the Humboldt Forum, which displays predominantly non-Western art and artifacts in...
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Aly, Götz, author. aut http://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/aut The Magnificent Boat : The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure / Götz Aly. Cambridge, MA : Harvard University Press, [2023] ©2023 1 online resource (176 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier text file PDF rda Frontmatter -- Contents -- 1 The Scene of the Crime: German New Guinea -- 2 With Pastor Aly’s Blessings -- 3 The Luf Boat as Museum Attraction -- 4 The 1882 Luf Massacre -- 5 “Bastian’s Network” of Thieves -- 6 Deceit, Larceny, and Looting -- 7 Curators, Crusaders, and Cannons -- 8 Ethnology, Child of Colonialism -- 9 The Luf Boat Comes to Berlin -- 10 An Artifact of an Ancient Culture -- 11 Islands Stripped Bare -- 12 Where Does the Luf Boat Belong? -- Brief Biographies -- Abbreviations -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Sources and Acknowledgments -- Illustration Credits -- Index restricted access http://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_16ec online access with authorization star From an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific.Countless museums in the West have been criticized for their looted treasures, but few as trenchantly as the Humboldt Forum, which displays predominantly non-Western art and artifacts in a modern reconstruction of the former Royal Palace in Berlin. The Forum’s premier attraction, an ornately decorated fifteen-meter boat from the island of Luf in modern-day Papua New Guinea, was acquired under the most dubious circumstances by Max Thiel, a German trader, in 1902 after two decades of bloody German colonial expeditions in Oceania.Götz Aly tells the story of the German pillaging of Luf and surrounding islands, a campaign of violence in which Berlin ethnologists were brazenly complicit. In the aftermath, the majestic vessel was sold to the Ethnological Museum in the imperial capital, where it has remained ever since. In Aly’s vivid telling, the looted boat is a portal to a forgotten chapter in the history of empire—the conquest of the Bismarck Archipelago. One of these islands was even called Aly, in honor of the author’s great-granduncle, Gottlob Johannes Aly, a naval chaplain who served aboard ships that helped subjugate the South Sea islands Germany colonized.While acknowledging the complexity of cultural ownership debates, Götz Aly boldly questions the legitimacy of allowing so many treasures from faraway, conquered places to remain located in the West. Through the story of one emblematic object, The Magnificent Boat artfully illuminates a sphere of colonial brutality of which too few are aware today. Mode of access: Internet via World Wide Web. In English. Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (publisher's Web site, viewed 29. Mai 2023) HISTORY / Europe / General. bisacsh augustin kramer. canoes. curator. eduard hernsheim. ethnography. felix von luschan. hermit. human remains. otto dempwolff. outrigger. plunder. property. provenance. prussian cultural heritage foundation. repatriation. restitution. robbed. stolen. Chase, Jefferson, contributor. ctb https://id.loc.gov/vocabulary/relators/ctb Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 English 9783111319292 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE COMPLETE 2023 9783111318912 ZDB-23-DGG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 English 9783111319131 Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter EBOOK PACKAGE History 2023 9783111318189 ZDB-23-DEG Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Harvard University Press Complete eBook-Package 2023 9783110749700 print 9780674276574 https://doi.org/10.4159/9780674293199?locatt=mode:legacy https://www.degruyter.com/isbn/9780674293199 Cover https://www.degruyter.com/document/cover/isbn/9780674293199/original |
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