The contested crown : repatriation politics between Europe and Mexico / / Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

• Autore: Carroll Khadija von Zinnenburg <1980->
• Pubblicazione: Chicago ; ; London : , : The University of Chicago Press, , [2022]; ©2022
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (248 pages)
• Disciplina: 972.018
• Soggetto topico: Moctezuma's headdress; Anthropological museums and collections; Crowns; Cultural property - Repatriation; Cultural property; Featherwork - Mexico
• Soggetto non controllato: repatriation, feather headdress, mexico, europe, colonialism, history, aztec, montezuma, emperor, exhibition, ownership, possession, ambras castle, welt museum, conquest, seizure, dispossession, holocaust, looting, ethics, reparation, nonfiction, indigenous, international law, collection, material culture, crown, anthropology, el penacho, replica
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Writing as listening -- El Penacho -- The view from the vitrine -- The real and the replica -- Collecting and Catastrophe -- Monuments and exile -- Relational ethics and the future of museums.
• Sommario/riassunto: Following conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation. In The Contested Crown, Khadija von Zinnennburg Carroll meditates on the case of a spectacular feather headdress believed to have belonged to Montezuma, the last emperor of the Aztecs. This crown has long been the center of political and cultural power struggles, and it is one of the most contested museum claims between Europe and the Americas. Taken to Europe during the conquest of Mexico, it was placed at Ambras Castle, the Habsburg residence of the author’s ancestors, and is now in Vienna’s Welt Museum. Mexico has long requested to have it back, but the Welt Museum uses science to insist it is too fragile to travel. Both the biography of a cultural object and a history of collecting and colonizing, this book offers an artist’s perspective on the creative potentials of repatriation. Carroll compares Holocaust and colonial ethical claims, and she considers relationships between indigenous people, international law and the museums that amass global treasures, the significance of copies, and how conservation science shapes collections. Illustrated with diagrams and rare archival material, this book brings together global history, European history, and material culture around this fascinating object and the debates about repatriation.
• Titolo autorizzato: The contested crown
• ISBN: 0-226-80223-X
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910727268503321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II