TY  - JOUR
A1  - Eckstein, Lars
T1  - Recollecting bones
BT  - the remains of German-Australian colonial entanglements
JF  - Postcolonial Studies
N2  - This article critically engages with the different politics of memory involved in debates over the restitution of Indigenous Australian ancestral remains stolen by colonial actors in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries and brought to Berlin in the name of science. The debates crystallise how deeply divided German scientific discourses still are over the question of whether the historical and moral obligations of colonial injustice should be accepted or whether researchers should continue to profess scientific ‘disinterest’. The debates also reveal an almost unanimous disavowal of Indigenous Australian knowledges and mnemonic conceptions across all camps. The bitter ironies of this disavowal become evident when Indigenous Australian quests for the remains of their ancestral dead lost in the limbo of German scientific collections are juxtaposed with white Australian (fictional) quests for the remains of Ludwig Leichhardt, lost in the Australian interior.
KW  - Memory
KW  - ancestral remains
KW  - museums and anthropological collections
KW  - restorative justice
KW  - indigenous knowledge
KW  - Ludwig Leichhardt
Y1  - 2018
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2018.1435146
SN  - 1368-8790
SN  - 1466-1888
VL  - 21
IS  - 1
SP  - 6
EP  - 19
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  - 
TY  - JOUR
A1  - Eckstein, Lars
T1  - Maps drawn on the sand: of mimicry and depropriation on Ludwig Leichhardt's second Australian expedition
JF  - Journal of Australian studies
N2  - In this essay, I explore various politics of mimicry on Ludwig Leichhardt's second Australian expedition. Following Michael Taussig, I read mimicry as embedded in a complex economy of gift exchange which disrupts the binary categories of self and other, subject and object, man and nature. Mimetic exchanges, in other words, bear the potential for a non-dualistic dynamics of depropriation, a dynamics which may be avowed or disavowed by various actors in the colonial encounter. Focussing on three actors in particularLudwig Leichhardt himself, his British botanist Daniel Bunce, and the intriguing figure of Mr Turner, an Indigenous AustralianI trace the ways in which mimicry-as-depropriation is dealt with across the colonial archive.
KW  - Ludwig Leichhardt
KW  - mimicry
KW  - depropriation
Y1  - 2015
U6  - https://doi.org/10.1080/14443058.2015.1076024
SN  - 1444-3058
SN  - 1835-6419
VL  - 39
IS  - 4
SP  - 512
EP  - 528
PB  - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
CY  - Abingdon
ER  -