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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 it...
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oapen-20.500.12657-542512022-05-03T03:06:44Z Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond Snickare, Mårten Colonial object, materiality, colonialism, Kunstkammer, museum, decolonisation bic Book Industry Communication::A The arts::AC History of art / art & design styles bic Book Industry Communication::H Humanities::HB History::HBG General & world history 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. 2022-05-02T09:35:46Z 2022-05-02T09:35:46Z 2022 book ONIX_20220502_9789048554942_17 9789048554942 https://library.oapen.org/handle/20.500.12657/54251 eng Visual and Material Culture, 1300-1700 application/pdf Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0 International 9789048554942.pdf Amsterdam University Press Amsterdam University Press dd3d1a33-0ac2-4cfe-a101-355ae1bd857a 9789048554942 Amsterdam University Press 34 218 open access |
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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? 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. |
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