Headhunting and colonialism anthropology and the circulation of human skulls in the Portuguese empire, 1870 - 1930
Machine generated contents note: -- Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Introduction -- PART I: ENCOUNTERS WITH PARASITES -- Parasitism in Colonial Interactions -- The Order of Ceremonial Government -- The Circulatory System of Colonial Headhunting -- PART II:...
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| Sprache: | eng |
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Basingstoke u. a.
Palgrave Macmillan
2010
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| Schriftenreihe: | Cambridge imperial and post-colonial studies series
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| Schlagworte: |
Craniology
> History
> Headhunters
> Rites and ceremonies
> Skull
> Social aspects
> Ethnology
> Museum exhibits
> Human remains (Archaeology)
> Timor-Leste
> Portugal
> history
> Colonialism
> Exhibits as Topic
> History, 19th Century
> History, 20th Century
> Colonization
> Colonies
> Kolonialismus
> Osttimor
> Kopfjäger
> Schädel
> Handel
> Anthropologie
> Kraniologie
> Geschichte 1870-1930
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| Zusammenfassung: | Machine generated contents note: -- Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Introduction -- PART I: ENCOUNTERS WITH PARASITES -- Parasitism in Colonial Interactions -- The Order of Ceremonial Government -- The Circulatory System of Colonial Headhunting -- PART II: SKULLS AND HISTORIES -- Trajectories of Human Skulls in Museum Collections -- Human skulls as anthropological objects -- History and Classification in Timorese Anthropology -- Collecting and the Dramas of Colonial Hostility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index. Machine generated contents note: -- Illustrations and Maps -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Glossary -- Introduction -- PART I: ENCOUNTERS WITH PARASITES -- Parasitism in Colonial Interactions -- The Order of Ceremonial Government -- The Circulatory System of Colonial Headhunting -- PART II: SKULLS AND HISTORIES -- Trajectories of Human Skulls in Museum Collections -- Human skulls as anthropological objects -- History and Classification in Timorese Anthropology -- Collecting and the Dramas of Colonial Hostility -- Conclusion -- Notes -- Bibliography -- Index "Explores headhunting in the colonial wars and the collection of heads for European museums, 1870s-1930s. By looking at Portuguese colonialism in East Timor, it shows how indigenous peoples and colonial powers interacted in a mutually dependent way, and how collected remains became objects of political, symbolic, and scientific significance"--Provided by publisher |
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| Beschreibung: | Includes bibliographical references (S. 297 - 322) and index |
| Beschreibung: | XIV, 342 S. Ill., Kt. |
| ISBN: | 9780230222052 978-0-230-22205-2 |