The contested crown : repatriation politics between Europe and Mexico

The contested crown repatriation politics between Europe and Mexico

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...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Carroll, Khadija von Zinnenburg, 1980- author (author)
Format: eBook
Language:Inglés
Published: Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press [2022]
Subjects:
Weltmuseum Wien (Austria)
Moctezuma's headdress.
Anthropological museums and collections.
Crowns.
Cultural property > Repatriation.
Cultural property.
Featherwork > Mexico.
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.
See on Biblioteca Universitat Ramon Llull:https://discovery.url.edu/permalink/34CSUC_URL/1im36ta/alma991009770695606719
Table of Contents:
  • 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.

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