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Deconstructing dinosaurs : the history of the German Tendaguru Expedition and its finds, 1906-2023 / edited by Ina Heumann, Mareike Vennen and Holger Stoecker ; translated by Patricia Newman.
- Format:
- Book
- Language:
- English
- German
- Swahili
- Subjects (All):
- Tendaguru-Expedition (1909-1912).
- Tendaguru-Expedition.
- Scientific expeditions--Tanzania--History--20th century.
- Scientific expeditions.
- Brachiosaurus--Tanzania.
- Brachiosaurus.
- Dinosaurs--Catalogs and collections--Germany--Berlin.
- Dinosaurs.
- Animals, Fossil--Tanzania.
- Animals, Fossil.
- Paleontology--Mesozoic.
- Paleontology.
- Paleontology--Tanzania.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (xvii, 286 pages) : illustrations (some color)
- Place of Publication:
- Leiden ; Boston : Brill, [2024]
- Summary:
- Revisits the history of the early 20th-century German expedition to Tendaguru, in modern-day Tanzania, to explore the colonial legacy of natural history collections and the social and political responsibilities of the museums that hold them.
- Contents:
- Deconstructing dinosaurs: The history of the German Tendaguru Expedition and its finds, 1906-2023 / Ina Heumann, Holger Stoecker, Mareike Vennen
- Minerals and the Maji Maji War: On events preceding the dinosaur fossil excavations at Tendaguru in German East Africa / Holger Stoecker
- Colonial crown land and the export ban: How the Tendaguru fossils were appropriated in the name of German science / Holger Stoecker
- The politics and economics of dinosaurs in southern Tanzania: Oral history research in the Tendaguru area / Musa Sadock, Halfan H. Magani
- Images of work
- Work on images: Photographs of the Tendaguru Expedition / Mareike Vennen
- On donors and sponsors: The financing of the German Tendaguru Expedition / Holger Stoecker
- Big in Japan: Brachiosaurus brancai in Tokyo / Ina Heumann
- Marketing deep time: Paleontology in a time of transition / Marco Tamborini
- Whose is bigger? Exhibiting the first finds from Tendaguru / Mareike Vennen
- Dinosaurs in Berlin: Transformations in the Museum für Naturkunde Berlin, 1909-1937 / Mareike Vennen
- Bone collages: Media of deep time / Marco Tamborini
- Hunting for dinosaurs: Science, museums and the entertainment industry / Mareike Vennen
- Looking back, looking forward: A conversation with Daniela Schwarz, curator of the Tendaguru Dinosaur Collection / Daniela Schwarz
- Taxonomies at Tendaguru: How the Berlin dinosaurs got their names / Holger Stoecker, Michael Ohl
- Dinosaurs and provenance: The colonial legacy of the Tendaguru fossils, 1909-2022 / Ina Heumann, Holger Stoecker, Mareike Vennen
- Voices on decontextualized heritage: The case of Tanzania / Bertram B. B. Mapunda.
- Notes:
- This publication is the revised and expanded edition of two previous works: the original German-language Dinosaurierfragmente: Zur Geschichte einer Expedition und ihrer Objekte, 1906-2018, by Ina Heumann, Holger Stoecker, Marco Tamborini and Mareike Vennen (Göttingen: Wallstein Verlag, 2018) and a subsequent Kiswahili edition, Vipande vya Dinosaria. Historia ya Msafara wa Kipalentolojia kwenda Tendaguru Tanzania, 1906-2018 (Dar es Salaam: Mkuki na Nyota, 2021).
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- Print version record.
- Other Format:
- Print version: Deconstructing Dinosaurs
- ISBN:
- 9789004691063
- 9004691065
- OCLC:
- 1477223752
- Access Restriction:
- Restricted for use by site license
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