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Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond - From the Kunstkammer to the Current Museum Crisis (Hardcover)
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Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond - From the Kunstkammer to the Current Museum Crisis (Hardcover)
Series: Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700
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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? Colonial Objects
in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond 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.
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