Imperial skulduggery, science and the issue of provenance and restitution: The fate of Namibian skulls in the Alexander Ecker Collection in Freiburg

This article explores the history of the Alexander Ecker Collection and situates it within the larger trajectory of global collecting of human remains during the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries. This is then linked to the specific context of the genocide in then German South West Africa (19...

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Main Author: Reinhart Kößler
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Manchester University Press 2018-10-01
Series:Human Remains and Violence
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