Berlin's Australian Archive
Addressing the Colonial Legacies of Natural History
Following in the footsteps of Alexander von Humboldt, nineteenth-century German naturalists sought to explore and categorize the world. To them, the Australian continent offered a welcome opportunity to test Humboldt’s methods on a terrain hitherto largely unknown to European voyagers and scholars. As a result, this generation of scholars has played a decisive role in colonial knowledge production regarding the fifth continent in both Germany and in Australia. This blog documents the efforts of a new research project that engages with this history. It focuses on the objects (from rock samples to preserved plants and animals) as well as the written material (e.g. journals and letters) sent by German-speaking explorers to the Friedrich-Wilhelms-Universität Berlin, whose anatomical, mineralogical, and zoological collections merged into the Museum für Naturkunde in 1889.
Responsable(s)
Anja Schwarz
Disciplines
Arts et humanités, Humanités pluridisciplinaires, Philosophie
Thèmes
Étude des genres, Sociologie de la culture, Études visuelles, XXIe siècle
URL du carnet
https://collectingoz.hypotheses.org
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Informations bibliographiques
Rédacteur(s) en chef
Anja Schwarz
Année de création
2022
Date de mise en ligne
15 septembre 2020
Langue de la publication
English
Coordonnées
Courriel
Adresse postale
Berlin's Australian Archive
University of Potsdam
English Department
Chair of Cultural Studies
Am Neuen Palais 10
14469 Potsdam
Allemagne
Ville de production
Potsdam