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Schomburgk’s Chook

  • 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.

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Author details:Anja SchwarzORCiDGND
DOI:https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2018.1434749
ISSN:1368-8790
ISSN:1466-1888
Title of parent work (English):Postcolonial Studies
Subtitle (English):the entangled South Australian collections of a German naturalist
Publisher:Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group
Place of publishing:Abingdon
Publication type:Article
Language:English
Date of first publication:2018/02/06
Publication year:2018
Release date:2022/03/31
Tag:German colonialism; Richard Schomburgk; colonial Australia; malleefowl (Leipoa ocellata); natural history collections
Volume:21
Issue:1
Number of pages:15
First page:20
Last Page:34
Organizational units:Philosophische Fakultät / Institut für Anglistik und Amerikanistik
DDC classification:4 Sprache / 42 Englisch, Altenglisch / 420 Englisch, Altenglisch
License (German):License LogoCC-BY-NC-ND - Namensnennung, nicht kommerziell, keine Bearbeitungen 4.0 International
External remark:Zweitveröffentlichung in der Schriftenreihe Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Postprints der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe ; 141
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