@article{Eckstein2015,
  author    = {Eckstein, Lars},
  title     = {Maps drawn on the sand: of mimicry and depropriation on Ludwig Leichhardt's second Australian expedition},
  series = {Journal of Australian studies},
  volume    = {39},
  journal   = {Journal of Australian studies},
  number    = {4},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {1444-3058},
  doi       = {10.1080/14443058.2015.1076024},
  pages     = {512 -- 528},
  year      = {2015},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}
@misc{Eckstein2018,
  author    = {Eckstein, Lars},
  title     = {Recollecting bones},
  series = {Postcolonial Studies},
  journal   = {Postcolonial Studies},
  url       = {http://nbn-resolving.de/urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-413654},
  pages     = {15},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}
@article{Eckstein2018,
  author    = {Eckstein, Lars},
  title     = {Recollecting bones},
  series = {Postcolonial Studies},
  volume    = {21},
  journal   = {Postcolonial Studies},
  number    = {1},
  publisher = {Routledge, Taylor \& Francis Group},
  address   = {Abingdon},
  issn      = {1368-8790},
  doi       = {10.1080/13688790.2018.1435146},
  pages     = {6 -- 19},
  year      = {2018},
  abstract  = {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.},
  language  = {en}
}