The Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum : a colonial history / Susan Legêne, Janneke van Dijk (eds).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Legêne, Susan.

Dijk, Janneke van

Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands).

Ethnological museums and collections.

Museums.

Ethnology.

History.

Indonesia--History--1798-1942--Exhibitions.

Indonesia.

Indonesia--Biography--Exhibitions.

Ethnology--Indonesia--Exhibitions.

Museums--Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Tropenmuseum (Amsterdam, Netherlands)--Ethnological collections.

Netherlands--Amsterdam.

Genre:

Biographies.

Exhibition catalogs.

Physical Description:

200 pages : illustrations (many color) ; 27 cm

Place of Publication:

Amsterdam : KIT Publishers, 2011.

Summary:

In this volume the exhibition "Eastward Bound! Art, Culture and Colonialism" forms the background against which a variety of experts discuss the issue of the museums collection which, along with the history of the formation of the collection, forms a unique source of knowledge about the way in which the Dutch have handled issues surrounding colonialism and decolonization in the past centuries. A variety of objects, representative for the four phases in the colonial relations, from 1600, through the period of colonial expansion with Dutch administration, ethical politics and finally decolonization, are depicted.

Contents:

The Netherlands East Indies, a colonial history / Susan Legêne and Janneke van Dijk

The Netherlands eastward bound. The resonance of violence in collections / Harm Stevens ; Equal and free : Indonesian demands in education and politics / Elsbeth Locher-Scholten ; Enterprises / J. Thomas Lindblad ; Domestic servants in colonial times / Ratna Saptari ; The Javanese and Balinese dance theatre as commnity art / Margareta Dorila ; Expeditions, collections, science : the Dutch fascination for the Papuans of New Guinea / David van Duuren

Colonial collections at the Tropenmuseum. Ten collectors, ten collections / Susan Legêne and Janneke van Dijk ; Ten collectors. The colonial civil servant : Johan Ernst Jasper ; The entrepreneur : Théodore F. A.Delprat ; The missionary : Petrus Vertenten ; The artist : Hendrik Paulides ; The artists couple : Mr. and Mrs. Quirien A. A. Krijnen and Petronella Maria Helena (Nellie) Krijnen-Surie ; The photographer : Margaretha Mathilde ('Thilly') Weissenborn ; The scientist/museum director : Johan Christiaan van Eerde ; The soldier and his wife : Henri N. A. Swart and Victorina M. G. Stadlmair ; The music collector : Jaap Kunst

Ten collections. Wood ; Maps ; Family photographs ; Films ; Clothes ; Paintings ; The library collection ; Weapons ; Yogya silver ; Models and miniatures

Colonial imagination and reflection. Collective memory : the interaction between literature, museums, cinema and photography / Pamela Pattynama ; The arrows aim : coloured comments on Dutch colonial drama / Edy Seriese.

Notes:

First volume of a ten-volume series of the Royal Tropical Institute.

Includes bibliographical references (pages 188-191) and index.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

ISBN:

9789068327519

9068327518

OCLC:

724135761