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 - TY - GEN A1 - Barrett, Lindsay A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Hurley, Andrew Wright A1 - Schwarz, Anja T1 - Remembering German-Australian colonial entanglement BT - an introduction T2 - Postcolonial studies : culture, politics, economy Y1 - 2018 U6 - https://doi.org/10.1080/13688790.2018.1443671 SN - 1368-8790 SN - 1466-1888 VL - 21 IS - 1 SP - 1 EP - 5 PB - Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group CY - Abingdon ER - 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 - GEN A1 - Eckstein, Lars A1 - Schwarz, Anja T1 - The Making of Tupaia’s Map BT - a Story of the Extent and Mastery of Polynesian Navigation, Competing Systems of Wayfinding on James Cook’s Endeavour, and the Invention of an Ingenious Cartographic System T2 - Postprints der Universität Potsdam Philosophische Reihe N2 - Tupaia’s Map is one of the most famous and enigmatic artefacts to emerge from the early encounters between Europeans and Pacific Islanders. It was drawn by Tupaia, an arioi priest, chiefly advisor and master navigator from Ra‘iātea in the Leeward Society Islands in collaboration with various members of the crew of James Cook’s Endeavour, in two distinct moments of mapmaking and three draft stages between August 1769 and February 1770. To this day, the identity of many islands on the chart, and the logic of their arrangement have posed a riddle to researchers. Drawing in part on archival material hitherto overlooked, in this long essay we propose a new understanding of the chart’s cartographic logic, offer a detailed reconstruction of its genesis, and thus for the first time present a comprehensive reading of Tupaia’s Map. The chart not only underscores the extent and mastery of Polynesian navigation, it is also a remarkable feat of translation between two very different wayfinding systems and their respective representational models. T3 - Zweitveröffentlichungen der Universität Potsdam : Philosophische Reihe - 154 KW - artography KW - first contact KW - wayfinding KW - star navigation KW - sea of islands KW - translation KW - Indigenous knowledges and ontologies KW - Tupaia Y1 - 2019 U6 - http://nbn-resolving.de/urn/resolver.pl?urn:nbn:de:kobv:517-opus4-423091 SN - 1866-8380 IS - 154 ER - TY - JOUR A1 - Eckstein, Lars T1 - Recollecting bones BT - the remains of German-Australian colonial entanglements 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. 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 - Taylor & Francis CY - London ER -