In this article I will contend that decolonisation of colonial collections is not only about repatriation of cultural objects or researching object’s provenance. A few years ago, historian Claire Wintle argued how material culture both reflected and exercised agency on processes of decolonization. Here will be shown how decolonisation, the attempts of undoing colonialism, the repositioning of political relations and reformulation of identities and attitudes, was already stimulated, in both Indonesia and the Netherlands, by Indonesia’s nationalistic claims on Netherlands owned objects. These claims and resulting discussion on object’s possible restitution were more than anything else about political and cultural ownership, representation, le...
Challenging the colonial perspective: researching the war in Indonesia 1945-1949 with Indonesian sou...
Natural history museums have long escaped postcolonial or decolonial scrutiny; their specimens were ...
Dieser Aufsatz behandelt das Phänomen des ‚kolonialen Archäologen als Helden‘ aus historischer und ...
In this article I will contend that decolonisation of colonial collections is not only about repatri...
The Aceh Museum, one of the oldest museums in Indonesia, was established during Dutch colonial rule....
If decolonisation merely meant independence for a colony, it would lie in the distant past. Nowadays...
As colonial Indonesia never was intended to be a “settler colony”, many Dutch citizens spent only a ...
Thirty-three years after Indonesia's declaration of independence from Dutch colonial rule in 1945, a...
In this article, I use the trajectories and meanings of objects in the collectionsof two Eurasian me...
By examining one ‘ethnographic’ object kept at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, this article dis...
The article addresses cultural memory in the Netherlands and Indonesia about mass violence committed...
With regard to decolonization, ethnographic museums are special targets for criticism. For a long ti...
This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It o...
The discussion about objects, human remains and archives from former colonial territories is becomin...
Natural history museums have long escaped postcolonial or decolonial scrutiny; their specimens were ...
Challenging the colonial perspective: researching the war in Indonesia 1945-1949 with Indonesian sou...
Natural history museums have long escaped postcolonial or decolonial scrutiny; their specimens were ...
Dieser Aufsatz behandelt das Phänomen des ‚kolonialen Archäologen als Helden‘ aus historischer und ...
In this article I will contend that decolonisation of colonial collections is not only about repatri...
The Aceh Museum, one of the oldest museums in Indonesia, was established during Dutch colonial rule....
If decolonisation merely meant independence for a colony, it would lie in the distant past. Nowadays...
As colonial Indonesia never was intended to be a “settler colony”, many Dutch citizens spent only a ...
Thirty-three years after Indonesia's declaration of independence from Dutch colonial rule in 1945, a...
In this article, I use the trajectories and meanings of objects in the collectionsof two Eurasian me...
By examining one ‘ethnographic’ object kept at the Royal Museum for Central Africa, this article dis...
The article addresses cultural memory in the Netherlands and Indonesia about mass violence committed...
With regard to decolonization, ethnographic museums are special targets for criticism. For a long ti...
This book examines the afterlife of decolonization in the collective memory of the Netherlands. It o...
The discussion about objects, human remains and archives from former colonial territories is becomin...
Natural history museums have long escaped postcolonial or decolonial scrutiny; their specimens were ...
Challenging the colonial perspective: researching the war in Indonesia 1945-1949 with Indonesian sou...
Natural history museums have long escaped postcolonial or decolonial scrutiny; their specimens were ...
Dieser Aufsatz behandelt das Phänomen des ‚kolonialen Archäologen als Helden‘ aus historischer und ...