Treasures in Trusted Hands Negotiating the Future of Colonial Cultural Objects

• Main Author: van Beurden, Jos (auth)
• Format: Electronic Book Chapter
• Language: English
• Published: Leiden Sidestone Press 2017
• Subjects: Social & cultural anthropology, ethnography; anthropology; ethnology; museology; colonialism; colonial objects; heritage studies
• Online Access: OAPEN Library: download the publication; OAPEN Library: description of the publication

This pioneering study charts the one-way traffic of cultural and historical objects during five centuries of European colonialism. It presents abundant examples of disappeared colonial objects and systematises these into war booty, confiscations by missionaries and contestable acquisitions by privat...