The Contested Crown Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico

The Contested Crown Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico

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Following conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation. In The Contested Crown, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll meditates on the case of a spectacular feather headdress believed to have belonged to Montezuma, the last emperor of the Aztecs. This crown h...

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Main Author: Carroll, Khadija von Zinnenburg (auth)
Format: Electronic Book Chapter
Language:English
Published: Chicago University of Chicago Press 2022
Subjects:
Humanities
History of the Americas
History of art / art & design styles
Museology & heritage studies
Indigenous peoples
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
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Summary:Following conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation. In The Contested Crown, Khadija von Zinnenburg 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.
Physical Description:1 electronic resource (240 p.)
ISBN:chicago/9780226802237.001.0001
9780226802237
9780226802060
Access:Open Access

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