The Magnificent Boat : The Colonial Theft of a South Seas Cultural Treasure /
From an eminent and provocative historian, a wrenching parable of the ravages of colonialism in the South Pacific.Countless museums in the West have been criticized for their looted treasures, but few as trenchantly as the Humboldt Forum, which displays predominantly non-Western art and artifacts in...
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Cambridge, MA :
Harvard University Press,
[2023]
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- 1 The Scene of the Crime: German New Guinea
- 2 With Pastor Aly's Blessings
- 3 The Luf Boat as Museum Attraction
- 4 The 1882 Luf Massacre
- 5 "Bastian's Network" of Thieves
- 6 Deceit, Larceny, and Looting
- 7 Curators, Crusaders, and Cannons
- 8 Ethnology, Child of Colonialism
- 9 The Luf Boat Comes to Berlin
- 10 An Artifact of an Ancient Culture
- 11 Islands Stripped Bare
- 12 Where Does the Luf Boat Belong?
- Brief Biographies
- Abbreviations
- Notes
- Bibliography
- Sources and Acknowledgments
- Illustration Credits
- Index