Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond : : From the Kunstkammer to the Current Museum Crisis / / Mårten Snickare.
An elaborately crafted and decorated tomahawk from somewhere along the north American east coast: how did it end up in the royal collections in Stockholm in the late seventeenth century? What does it say about the Swedish kingdom’s colonial ambitions and desires? What questions does it raise from it...
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| Place / Publishing House: | Amsterdam : : Amsterdam University Press,, [2022] ©2022 |
| Year of Publication: | 2022 |
| Edition: | 1st ed. |
| Language: | English |
| Series: | Visual and material culture, 1300-1700
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 p.) |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Table of Contents
- List of Illustrations
- Acknowledgements
- Introduction: The King's Tomahawk?
- Part I Colonial Objects in Space: Baroque Practices of Collecting and Display
- 1. The Spaces of Colonial Objects : The Colonial World and the Kunstkammer
- 2. Global Interests: Colonial Policy and Collecting in the Reign of Queen Christina
- 3. Performing Difference: Court Culture and Collecting in the Time of Hedwig Eleonora
- 4. Object Lessons: Materiality and Knowledge in the Kunstkammer of Johannes Schefferus
- Part II Colonial Objects in Time: Object Itineraries
- 5. Objects and their Agency and Itineraries
- 6. From North America to Nordamerika: A Tomahawk
- 7. From Northern Sápmi to Nordiska Museet: A Goavddis
- Part III The Fate of Colonial Objects: Pasts, Presents, and Futures
- 8. Learning from the Kunstkammer? Colonial Objects and Decolonial Options
- Bibliography
- About the Author
- Index