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Author Penny, H. Glenn, author.
Uniform Title Im Schatten Humboldts. English
Title In Humboldt's shadow : a tragic history of German ethnology / H. Glenn Penny.
Publisher Princeton, New Jersey : Princeton University Press, [2021]



Descript 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : illustrations, maps
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Contents Introduction kihawahine : the future in the past -- Hawaiian feathered cloaks and Mayan sculptures : collecting origins -- The Haida crest pole and the Nootka eagle mask : hypercollecting -- Benin bronzes : colonial questions -- Guatemalan textiles : persisting global networks -- The Yup'ik flying-swan mask : the past in the future -- Epilogue : harnessing Humboldt.
ISBN 9780691216454 (electronic book)
0691216452 (electronic book)
9780691211145 (hardcover)
0691211140 (hardcover)
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Author Penny, H. Glenn, author.
Subject Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Influence.
Ethnology -- Germany -- History.
Ethnologists -- Germany -- History.
Ethnological museums and collections -- Germany -- History.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : illustrations, maps
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Note Translated from the original German into English.
Contents Introduction kihawahine : the future in the past -- Hawaiian feathered cloaks and Mayan sculptures : collecting origins -- The Haida crest pole and the Nootka eagle mask : hypercollecting -- Benin bronzes : colonial questions -- Guatemalan textiles : persisting global networks -- The Yup'ik flying-swan mask : the past in the future -- Epilogue : harnessing Humboldt.
ISBN 9780691216454 (electronic book)
0691216452 (electronic book)
9780691211145 (hardcover)
0691211140 (hardcover)
Author Penny, H. Glenn, author.
Subject Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Influence.
Ethnology -- Germany -- History.
Ethnologists -- Germany -- History.
Ethnological museums and collections -- Germany -- History.

Subject Humboldt, Alexander von, 1769-1859 -- Influence.
Ethnology -- Germany -- History.
Ethnologists -- Germany -- History.
Ethnological museums and collections -- Germany -- History.
Descript 1 online resource (x, 220 pages) : illustrations, maps
Content text txt
Media computer c
Carrier online resource cr
Descript data file rda
Note Translated from the original German into English.
Contents Introduction kihawahine : the future in the past -- Hawaiian feathered cloaks and Mayan sculptures : collecting origins -- The Haida crest pole and the Nootka eagle mask : hypercollecting -- Benin bronzes : colonial questions -- Guatemalan textiles : persisting global networks -- The Yup'ik flying-swan mask : the past in the future -- Epilogue : harnessing Humboldt.
ISBN 9780691216454 (electronic book)
0691216452 (electronic book)
9780691211145 (hardcover)
0691211140 (hardcover)

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