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The Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum : a colonial history

Title: The Netherlands East Indies at the Tropenmuseum : a colonial history / Susan Legêne, Janneke van Dijk (eds).
Publication: Amsterdam : KIT Publishers, 2011.

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Description

200 pages : illustrations (some color), map, portraits; 27 cm

Summary

This is the first volume of a series of ten books that discusses the collections of the Tropenmuseum and the histories and stories that accompany them. The books elucidate the often hidden backgrounds of a museum collection, discussing objects within their original context, social histories and their contemporary meaning. The main emphasis lies on the history of the specific museum collection, with its different collecting and presentation practices placed in a particular time and place. Each volume is richly illustrated with objects and photographs from the Tropenmuseum collection. In the book specific sections of the well-known ethnographic collections from Indonesia are interpreted as colonial collections. As such, these objects and images express a specific culture of colonialism and colonial society in which ethnography, art, applied art and crafts from Europe and from South-East Asia merge. For over a century, these objects and images have played a dynamic role in creating coherence in the ethnographic collections as a whole.Through this new interpretation of such objects as colonial collections, the contours of the many diverging and contradictory social relationships that existed within colonial society become visible. In eight essays, invited authors elaborate on this approach and challenge the Tropenmuseum to extend its policies on the interpretation and presentation of ethnographic collections in a national and international dialogue on art, cultural heritage and the legacies of colonial culture.

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Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.
History.

Note

First volume of a ten-volume series of the Royal Tropical Institute.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references (p. 188-191) and index.

Contents

The Netherlands East Indies, a colonial history / Susan Legêne and Janneke van Dijk -- The Netherlands eastward bound. The resonance of violence in collections / Harm Stevens ; Equal and free : Indonesian demands in education and politics / Elsbeth Locher-Scholten ; Enterprises / J. Thomas Lindblad ; Domestic servants in colonial times / Ratna Saptari ; The Javanese and Balinese dance theatre as commnity art / Margareta Dorila ; Expeditions, collections, science : the Dutch fascination for the Papuans of New Guinea / David van Duuren -- Colonial collections at the Tropenmuseum. Ten collectors, ten collections / Susan Legêne and Janneke van Dijk ; Ten collectors. The colonial civil servant : Johan Ernst Jasper ; The entrepreneur : Théodore F. A.Delprat ; The missionary : Petrus Vertenten ; The artist : Hendrik Paulides ; The artists couple : Mr. and Mrs. Quirien A. A. Krijnen and Petronella Maria Helena (Nellie) Krijnen-Surie ; The photographer : Margaretha Mathilde ('Thilly') Weissenborn ; The scientist/museum director : Johan Christiaan van Eerde ; The soldier and his wife : Henri N. A. Swart and Victorina M. G. Stadlmair ; The music collector : Jaap Kunst -- Ten collections. Wood ; Maps ; Family photographs ; Films ; Clothes ; Paintings ; The library collection ; Weapons ; Yogya silver ; Models and miniatures -- Colonial imagination and reflection. Collective memory : the interaction between literature, museums, cinema and photography / Pamela Pattynama ; The arrows aim : coloured comments on Dutch colonial drama / Edy Seriese.

ISBN

9789068327519
9068327518

LCCN

2011378606

OCLC

ocn724135761
724135761
SCSB-1607045

Owning Institutions

Princeton University Library