Imperial Museum Dynasties in Europe - Papal Ethnographic Collections and Material Culture (1st ed. 2023)

This book reveals the history of the Vatican’s ethnographic collections by exploring the imperial, scientific, technological, and religious agendas behind its collecting and curating practices in the early twentieth century. It focuses on two principal contributors: the academic, priest, and ‘Pope’s Curator’, Father Wilhelm Schmidt, SVD, and the missionary and linguist, Father Franz Kirschbaum, SVD. Their narratives are embedded in a unique set of comparisons between the ‘liberal humanist ideals’ that underpinned the 1851 Great Exhibition, mid-nineteenth-century German museology, and the 1925 Pontifical Missionary Exhibition. It relates to the period of high colonialism and rampant missionary activity worldwide. It unravels the complicated political and ideological stance taken by the Catholic Church and its place within the science/religion debates of its time. Establishing an essential link between the secular and catholic practices of collecting and curating ethnographic objects from non-Western traditions, the author proposes a broader framework for post-colonial approaches to scholarly studies of ethnographic collections, including those of the Catholic Church. This book appeals to students and scholars of anthropology, museum studies, history, art history, religion, politics, and cultural studies.

General

Imprint:	Springer Verlag, Singapore
Country of origin:	Singapore
Series:	People, Cultures and Societies: Exploring and Documenting Diversities
Release date:	September 2023
First published:	2023
Authors:	Alison L. Kahn
Dimensions:	235 x 155mm (L x W)
Pages:	112
Edition:	1st ed. 2023
ISBN-13:	978-981-9931-88-0
Categories:	Books Promotions
LSN:	981-9931-88-6
Barcode:	9789819931880

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