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The contested crown : repatriation politics between Europe and Mexico / Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll.
LIBRA CR4485.C7 C37 2022
Available from offsite location
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Carroll, Khadija von Zinnenburg, 1980- author.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Moctezuma's headdress.
- Crowns--Mexico.
- Crowns.
- Headdresses--Mexico.
- Headdresses.
- Featherwork--Mexico.
- Featherwork.
- Anthropological museums and collections.
- Cultural property.
- Aztecs.
- Antiquities.
- Mexico.
- Aztecs--Austria--Vienna--Antiquities.
- Cultural property--Mexico.
- Cultural property--Repatriation.
- Anthropological museums and collections--Moral and ethical aspects.
- Aztecs--Antiquities.
- Weltmuseum Wien (Austria).
- Austria--Vienna.
- Physical Description:
- 239 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Place of Publication:
- Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2022.
- Summary:
- "This book explores the travels and travails of a fabulous headdress reputed to have belonged to Montezuma, the last emperor of the Aztecs. This feather crown was brought to Europe by Hernando Cortez following the conquest of Mexico. Not long after it arrived in Europe, it was placed in the "cabinet of curiosities" at Ambras Castle, the Austrian residence of the author's ancestors. From there the headdress was removed to Vienna's Weltmuseum in the early nineteenth century, where it has been on view ever since. "El Penacho," as the headdress is called, is considered a national treasure by both Austria and Mexico. The crown has long been the center of political and cultural power struggles. The Mexican government wants it back. The Weltmuseum insists El Penacho is too fragile to travel. Austria has tried to placate Mexico by giving it a replica, which is displayed in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. But Mexico wants the real thing. This is at once the biography of a rare cultural object and a history of political collecting and colonizing. The book analyses claims for postcolonial justice through the repatriation case of the headdress, today among the most contested museum claims between Europe and the Americas"-- Provided by publisher.
- Contents:
- Machine generated contents note: ch. 1 Writing As Listening
- ch. 2 El Penacho
- ch. 3 The View From The Vitrine
- ch. 4 The Real And The Replica
- ch. 5 Collecting And Catastrophe
- ch. 6 Monuments And Exile
- ch. 7 Relational Ethics And The Future Of Museums.
- Notes:
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- ISBN:
- 9780226802060
- 022680206X
- OCLC:
- 1241244868
- Publisher Number:
- 99989658274
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