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dc.contributor.advisorRaben, R.
dc.contributor.advisorGewald, J. B.
dc.contributor.authorJonker, L.A.
dc.date.accessioned2015-09-22T17:01:16Z
dc.date.available2015-09-22T17:01:16Z
dc.date.issued2015
dc.identifier.urihttps://studenttheses.uu.nl/handle/20.500.12932/25945
dc.description.abstractIn 2011, twenty Namibian skulls were repatriated from the Charité university hospital in Berlin, Germany. The skulls had been collected in German South-West Africa, present-day Namibia, in the early twentieth century for pseudo-scientific research. They belonged to Herero and Nama victims of the German-Herero war, a genocide which took place between 1904-1908. This thesis analyzes the layers of meaning that the twenty skulls acquired in the practices of collecting (1904-1910), studying (1910-1924), and repatriating (2011) by examining why, by whom, in what context and importantly, how the skulls were handled and discussed in each of the practices.
dc.description.sponsorshipUtrecht University
dc.format.extent9840306
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dc.language.isoen
dc.title'More than just an object'. A material analysis of the return and retention of Namibian skulls from Germany
dc.type.contentMaster Thesis
dc.rights.accessrightsOpen Access
dc.subject.courseuuModern History (1500-2000)


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