Habsburg encounters with Native America familiar strangers edited by Jonathan Singerton, Markéta Křížová, and Michael Burri

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Singerton, Jonathan, 1991- editor.

Křížová, Markéta, editor.

Burri, Michael, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Indians of North America--Foreign public opinion.

Indians of North America.

Indians of North America--First contact with other peoples.

Habsburg, House of.

Physical Description:

1 online resource

Place of Publication:

Budapest Vienna New York Central European University Press [2025]

System Details:

digital

Summary:

"The central European lands of the Habsburg monarchy have long shared an intertwined past with the Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. This volume focuses on the process of encountering these peoples as a continual action across several centuries that has produced numerous and varied instances of cultural dialogues, perspectives, and understandings. Moreover, this central European element is something that has not been considered in its own right before now and has been overshadowed by the focus on a wider Germanic fascination for Indigenous cultures. Breaking away from this wider narrative allows us not only to recover a more distinct historical connection but also uncovers the particular dynamics of direct and indirect contact between Indigenous worlds and that of the Habsburg monarchy"-- Provided by publisher

Contents:

Introduction : reencountering Native America from the Habsburg lands / Jonathan Singerton, Markéta Křížová, and Michael Burri

The royal fifth and the rights of Indians : Charles V and his display of Mexican material culture / James Ring Adams

Plumes of power : depictions of the Native American in Viennese festival culture before 1700 / Alexander McCargar

Jesuit missionaries from Central European territories in northwestern New Spain, 1680–1767 / Bernd Hausberger

“People of the devil”—“People of Achilles” : the representation of Native America in religious practice, translations, and collections in Hungary, 1670–1840 / Ildikó Sz. Kristóf

Neither red enough nor fierce enough : the construction of Native Americans in nineteenth-century Czech culture / Markéta Křížová

“Poor Indians! Strangers in your own land!” : the attitude of a Hungarian traveler towards the Native Americans in Jacksonian America / Csaba Lévai

Myriad missions : Native Americans and the Leopoldine Society / Jonathan Singerton

Reencountering trade legacies, Indigenous histories, and the early Leopoldine Society circle in the Vienna Weltmuseum / Michael Burri

The Seljan brothers, Native Americans, and the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb / Marija Živković

Staged representation : the perception of Native Americans, “ethnological expositions,” and Wild West shows in the German-speaking Austro-Hungarian press (1870–1918) / Florian Ambach and Maximilian Gröber

“Rothäute von heute” : Deskaheh’s petition for recognized Indigenous sovereignty at the end of the Austro-Hungarian Empire / Michael P. Taylor

Who are the Indians? Hans Larwin and the visualization of the Roma and Native Americans in interwar Austrian popular art and visual culture / Julia Secklehner

Richard Erdoes, Red Power’s ally / György Tóth

Afterword : the Kunstkammer as contact zone—understanding Indigenous objects and histories in Habsburg collections / Robbie Richardson

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index

Online resource; title from PDF title page (De Gruyter Brill, viewed August 18, 2025)

Other Format:

Print version Habsburg encounters with Native America

ISBN:

9048571820

9789048571826

9048571812

9789048571819

OCLC:

1520175414

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