Editorial: Springer
Colección: People, Cultures and Societies: Exploring and Documenting Diversities
Número de páginas: 182 págs.
Fecha de edición: 13-09-2023
EAN: 9789819931880
ISBN: 978-981-99-3188-0
Precio (sin IVA): 124,01 €
Precio (IVA incluído): 128,97 €
This book reveals the history of the Vatican’s ethnographic collections by exploring the imperial, scientific, technological, and religious agendas behind its collecting and curating practices in the early twentieth century. It focuses on two principal contributors: the academic, priest, and ‘Pope’s Curator’, Father Wilhelm Schmidt, SVD, and the missionary and linguist, Father Franz Kirschbaum, SVD. Their narratives are embedded in a unique set of comparisons between the ‘liberal humanist ideals’ that underpinned the 1851 Great Exhibition, mid-nineteenth-century German museology, and the 1925 Pontifical Missionary Exhibition.