The contested crown : repatriation politics between Europe and Mexico /

The contested crown : repatriation politics between Europe and Mexico /

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Author / Creator:	Carroll, Khadija von Zinnenburg, 1980- author.
Imprint:	Chicago ; London : The University of Chicago Press, 2022. ©2022
Description:	1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations
Language:	English
Subject:	Weltmuseum Wien (Austria) Weltmuseum Wien (Austria) Moctezuma's headdress. Crowns -- Mexico. Headdresses -- Mexico. Featherwork -- Mexico. Aztecs -- Austria -- Vienna -- Antiquities. Cultural property -- Mexico. Cultural property -- Repatriation. Anthropological museums and collections -- Moral and ethical aspects. Aztecs -- Antiquities. Crowns. Cultural property. Cultural property -- Repatriation. Featherwork. Headdresses. Moctezuma's headdress. Austria -- Vienna. Mexico.
Format:	E-Resource Book
URL for this record:	http://pi.lib.uchicago.edu/1001/cat/bib/12874833

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ISBN:	022680223X 9780226802237 9780226802060 022680206X
Notes:	Includes bibliographical references and index. Includes bibliographical references and index. Print version record.
Summary:	"This book explores the travels and travails of a fabulous headdress reputed to have belonged to Montezuma, the last emperor of the Aztecs. This feather crown was brought to Europe by Hernando Cortez following the conquest of Mexico. Not long after it arrived in Europe, it was placed in the "cabinet of curiosities" at Ambras Castle, the Austrian residence of the author's ancestors. From there the headdress was removed to Vienna's Weltmuseum in the early nineteenth century, where it has been on view ever since. "El Penacho," as the headdress is called, is considered a national treasure by both Austria and Mexico. The crown has long been the center of political and cultural power struggles. The Mexican government wants it back. The Weltmuseum insists El Penacho is too fragile to travel. Austria has tried to placate Mexico by giving it a replica, which is displayed in the National Museum of Anthropology in Mexico City. But Mexico wants the real thing. This is at once the biography of a rare cultural object and a history of political collecting and colonizing. The book analyses claims for postcolonial justice through the repatriation case of the headdress, today among the most contested museum claims between Europe and the Americas"--
Other form:	Print version: Carroll, Khadija von Zinnenburg, 1980- The contested crown. Chicago : University of Chicago Press,c2022 9780226802060

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Summary:	Following conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation. <br> <br> In The Contested Crown , Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll meditates on the case of a spectacular feather headdress believed to have belonged to Montezuma, emperor of the Aztecs. This crown has long been the center of political and cultural power struggles, and it is one of the most contested museum claims between Europe and the Americas. Taken to Europe during the conquest of Mexico, it was placed at Ambras Castle, the Habsburg residence of the author's ancestors, and is now in Vienna's Welt Museum. Mexico has long requested to have it back, but the Welt Museum uses science to insist it is too fragile to travel.<br> <br> Both the biography of a cultural object and a history of collecting and colonizing, this book offers an artist's perspective on the creative potentials of repatriation. Carroll compares Holocaust and colonial ethical claims, and she considers relationships between indigenous people, international law and the museums that amass global treasures, the significance of copies, and how conservation science shapes collections. Illustrated with diagrams and rare archival material, this book brings together global history, European history, and material culture around this fascinating object and the debates about repatriation.
Item Description:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
Physical Description:	1 online resource (239 pages) : illustrations
Bibliography:	Includes bibliographical references and index.
ISBN:	022680223X 9780226802237 9780226802060 022680206X