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Andratschke, Claudia, Hoes, Charlotte Marlene and Krieger, Annekathrin (Eds.): Colonial Dimensions of the Global Wildlife Trade, Heidelberg: arthistoricum.net-ART-Books, 2024 (Veröffentlichungen des Netzwerks Provenienzforschung in Niedersachsen, Volume 6). https://doi.org/10.11588/arthistoricum.1415

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07/03/2024

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Claudia Andratschke (Ed.), Charlotte Marlene Hoes (Ed.), Annekathrin Krieger (Ed.)

Colonial Dimensions of the Global Wildlife Trade

Veröffentlichungen des Netzwerks Provenienzforschung in Niedersachsen

This volume resulted from an international conference that took place in November 2022 at the Georg-August-Universität Göttingen. The aim was to examine the colonial dimensions of the global wildlife trade in the first half of the 20th century, and its connections to other forms of trade, e.g., with human remains, animal material or ethnographic objects. In particular, the papers scrutinise the legacy of this trade - in the regions of origin, but also in European and North American institutions.
The conference and the volume are linked to the project "The global networks of the animal trading companies Reiche and Ruhe - provenance research on the circulation of animals, humans and objects in the 19th and 20th centuries”, which is based at the Chair of Modern History at the University of Göttingen and is funded by the German Lost Art Foundation. It is conducted in cooperation with the Municipal Museum of Alfeld and the Network for Provenance Research in Lower Saxony. 

Claudia Andratschke studied Art History, Medieval and Modern History and Jurisprudence and completed her doctorate in Tübingen. She has been working as a provenance researcher at the Lower Saxony State Museum Hanover since 2008, responsible for all departments since 2013. She is head of the Collections + Research department since 2018 and has been responsible for the overall coordination of the Lower Saxony-wide PAESE project in 2018-22. Since 2015, she has also coordinated and led the Network for Provenance Research in Lower Saxony. The focus of her work, research and networking is on Provenance Research on Cultural Assets seized by the Nazis and on Collections from Colonial Contexts, as well as on questions of Standardisation and Digitisation.

Charlotte M. Hoes has been working as a research fellow at the History Department of the University of Göttingen since 2021 as part of a project investigating the global networks of two German wild animal traders. Having completed her studies in History, Philosophy, Cultural Studies and Political Science at University of Zurich and the ETH Zurich, she is also active in public education programmes. Her research interests include global history, the history of knowledge, gender and body history and historical human-animal studies.

Annekathrin Krieger studied history and religious studies in Göttingen. Since 2016, she has been working on her doctorate in the project "Global Knowledge in the Empire: How Göttingen came to Apes", which is funded by the Lower Saxony Ministry of Science and Culture. She has been working as a research assistant for the Network for Provenance Research in Lower Saxony since 2023.

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Front Matter
Contents
9-12
Welcome
Jan Hüsgen
Welcome
14-15
Claudia Andratschke
Welcome
16-19
Introduction
Charlotte Marlene Hoes
Traces of the Global Wildlife Trade in Today’s Natural History Collections and Beyond
22-42
Sophia Annweiler
“Wild animals completely up close”: On the Genesis and Implicit Messages of the Natural History Dioramas in the Museum of Alfeld
44-66
Contributions
Jonathan Saha
Global Capital, Local Animal: Some Notes on the Elephant Trade in Colonial Southeast Asia
70-91
Prima Nurahmi Mulyasari
Global Animal Dealers in Colonial Indonesia
94-118
Barrie Ryne Blatchford
“A Monkey in Every Home”: Henry Trefflich, Colonial Networks, and the American Commercial Animal Trade
120-145
Marianna Szczygielska
Lion Capital: Zoo Acquisition Strategies in Interwar Poland
148-164
Mieke Roscher
Cheetah (and Dog!) Politics: Interspecies Relations and the Colonial Legacy of Cheetah Conservation Programs in South(ern) African
166-183
Callum Fisher
Godeffroy, Beetles and Birds: Museum Collections in the Plantationocene
186-211
Te Herekiekie Herewini
Trade of Māori and Moriori Ancestral Remains Alongside Wildlife Specimens from Aotearoa New Zealand and Rēkohu Chatham Islands
214-236
Holger Stoecker, Katharina Stötzel
Ancestors and Descendants: On Provenance and Repatriation of Ancestral Remains of Hawai’I in Collections of the Georg August University of Göttingen
238-260
Appendix
Biographies of the Authors
262-265

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