TY  - GEN
A1  - Schwarz, Anja
T1  - Schomburgk’s Chook
T2  - Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe
N2  - Focusing on the politics of museums, collections and the untold
stories of the scientific ‘specimens’ that travelled between
Germany and Australia, this article reconstructs the historical,
interpersonal and geopolitical contexts that made it possible for
the stuffed skin of an Australian malleefowl to become part of the
collections of Berlin’s Museum für Naturkunde. The author enquires into the kinds of contexts that are habitually considered
irrelevant when a specimen of natural history is treated as an
object of taxonomic information only. In case of this particular
specimen human and non-human history become entangled in ways that link the fate of this one small Australian bird to the German revolutionary generation of 1848, to Germany’s
nineteenth-century colonial aspirations, to settler–Indigenous
relations, to the cruel realities that underpinned the production of
scientific knowledge in colonial Australia, and to a present-day
interest in reconstructing Indigenous knowledges.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 141 
KW  - German colonialism
KW  - colonial Australia
KW  - natural history collections
KW  - Richard Schomburgk
KW  - malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata)
Y1  - 2018
UR  - https://publishup.uni-potsdam.de/frontdoor/index/index/docId/41295
UR  - https://nbn-resolving.org/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-412959
SN  - 1866-8380
IS  - 141
ER  -