Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond From the Kunstkammer to the Current Museum Crisis
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 fr...
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| Format: | eBook |
| Language: | English |
| Language Notes: | English. |
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Amsterdam
Amsterdam University Press
2022
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| Series: | Visual and material culture, 1300-1700.
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| 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? <cite>Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond</cite> 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 <cite>Kunstkammer</cite>. The second part traces the objects' physical and epistemological transfer from the <cite>Kunstkammer</cite> 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. |
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| Item Description: | "Amsterdam University Press" 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 <cite>Kunstkammer</cite> 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 <cite>Kunstkammer</cite> of Johannes Schefferus Part II Colonial Objects in Time: Object Itineraries 5. Objects and their Agency and Itineraries 6. From North America to <cite>Nordamerika</cite>: A Tomahawk 7. From Northern Sapmi to Nordiska Museet: A <cite>Goavddis </cite> Part III The Fate of Colonial Objects: Pasts, Presents, and Futures 8. Learning from the <cite>Kunstkammer</cite>? Colonial Objects and Decolonial Options Bibliography About the Author Index |
| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (216 pages) illustrations |
| ISBN: | 9789048554942 9048554942 |