Imperial museum dynasties in Europe : Papal ethnographic collections and material culture / Alison L. Kahn.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kahn, Alison L.

Contributor:

ProQuest ebook central

Series:

People, cultures and societies

People, Cultures and Societies

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Catholic Church--Museums.

Catholic Church.

Catholic Church--History.

Museum techniques--History.

Museum techniques.

Museum techniques--Moral and ethical aspects.

Archaeology and religion.

Ethnology--History.

Ethnology.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (173 p.).

Place of Publication:

Singapore : Springer, 2023.

Contents:

Intro

Preface

Introduction

Classical Roots of Ethnographic Museums

The National and University Ethnographic Museum as a Reflection of European Dynasties

Inherited Dynasties of Princely and Scholastic Museum Enterprise Bridging Empires and Nations

Introducing the Pontifical Missionary and Ethnological Museum to the History of Ethnographic Museums

References

Contents

About the Author

1 The Ethnographic Exhibit as a Showcase of Liberal Humanism in Nineteenth-Century Europe

1.1 Liberal Humanism

1.2 International Exhibitions and World Fairs

1.3 The Great Exhibition of 1851

1.4 Musée Du Palais Trocadéro in Paris

1.5 Kunsthistorisches and Welt Museum in Vienna

1.6 Berlin's Industrial Exhibition of 1896

1.7 The Unification of Italy and the Captivus Vaticani

2 The Making of the Vatican's 'Modern' Museum Dynasty: The Ethnology of Fr. Wilhelm Schmidt SVD

2.1 Primeval Monotheism

2.2 Schmidt and Kulturkreise

2.3 Schmidt's Initiatives

3 Old and New Dynastic Orders: German Anthropology in the Era of Bismarck

3.1 The Structure and Culture of German Anthropology

3.2 German Physical Anthropology 1860-1910

3.3 The Failure of Virchow's Craniology and Rise of Neo-Darwinism

3.4 Comparisons of the GAS and Schmidt's Vatican Ethnology

4 Dynastic Networks: The Collision of Christianity and Colonialism in New Guinea

4.1 The SVD and Its Founder, St. Arnold Janssen

4.2 The SVD in New Guinea

4.3 Colonial and Missionary Interests

4.4 Plantations

4.5 Schools

4.6 Railways, Ships and Agriculture

4.7 World War I and the Inter-War Years

5 Fr. Franz Kirschbaum's Contribution to Collecting in New Guinea

5.1 Kirschbaum, the Collector

5.2 Kirschbaum in New Guinea: Missionary and Explorer

5.3 Kirschbaum and the US Agricultural Exhibition to New Guinea

5.4 A Retrospective Account of the SVD in New Guinea

5.5 Kirschbaum's Final Journey

6 Material Culture Crossing Empires: Notes, Queries and Letters

6.1 Instructions and Ethological Observations

6.2 Guidelines for Collecting Material Culture for the PME

6.3 Kirschbaum's Response

6.4 Preparations for the MEML

6.5 Letters Concerning the Kirschbaum Collection

7 The Pontifical Missionary Exhibition (1925): The Last Great Nineteenth-Century Exhibition

7.1 Official Accounts of the PME

7.2 Centralisation of the Missions

7.3 The Scientific Agenda

7.4 Structure of the PME

7.5 The Collections

7.6 The Ideology of the Displays

7.7 Beyond the PME

8 Empires End and Ominous Beginnings: The Missionary and Ethnological Museum (1927) and the Lateran Treaty (1929)

Notes:

8.1 The 'Self' of the Vatican: An Ideological 'Self' Versus a Cultural 'Self' and the Distinction Between Western Ethnographic Museums and Missionary and Ethnographic Museums

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Other Format:

Print version: Kahn, Alison L. Imperial Museum Dynasties in Europe

Print version: KAHN, ALISON L. IMPERIAL MUSEUM DYNASTIES IN EUROPE.

ISBN:

9789819931897

9819931894

Publisher Number:

99994805971

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