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1 online resource |
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Visual and Material Culture, 1300 -1700 ; [34] |
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Visual and material culture, 1300-1700 ; 34.
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| 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 |
| Summary |
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 its present place in a display cabinet in the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm? This book is about the tomahawk and other objects like it, acquired in colonial contact zones and displayed by Swedish elites in the seventeenth century. Its first part situates the objects in two distinct but related spaces: the expanding space of the colonial world, and the exclusive space of the Kunstkammer. The second part traces the objects' physical and epistemological transfer from the Kunstkammer to the modern museum system. In the final part, colonial objects are considered at the centre of a heated debate over the present state of museums, and their possible futures |
| Analysis |
Colonial object, materiality, colonialism, Kunstkammer, museum, decolonisation |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
In English |
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Description based on online resource; title from digital title page (viewed on June 28, 2022) |
| Subject |
Archaeological museums and collections -- Sweden
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Antiquities.
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Imperialism.
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History of art and design styles: c 1600 to c 1800.
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Colonialism and imperialism.
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ART / European.
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Antiquities
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Archaeological museums and collections
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Imperialism
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History of art.
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Museology and heritage studies.
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Material culture.
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Sweden
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9048554942 |
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9789048554942 |
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