TY  - GEN
A1  - Eckstein, Lars
T1  - Recollecting bones
BT  - the remains of German-Australian colonial entanglements
T2  - 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.
T3  - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 147 
KW  - memory
KW  - ancestral remains
KW  - museums and anthropological collections
KW  - restorative justice
KW  - indigenous knowledge
KW  - Ludwig Leichhardt
Y1  - 2018
U6  - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413654
ER  -