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Chapter 10 [in:] Treasure Hunting? The Collectors and the Collecting of Indonesian Artefacts. (Reimar Schefold and Han Vermeulen, eds.) Leiden: Research School of Asian, African, and Amerindian Studies (CNWS), University of Leiden.... more
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      Anthropology, Southeast Asian Studies, Indonesian History, History of Natural History
http://journals.openedition.org/nuevomundo/71471 El libro de Nancy Appelbaum, historiadora norteamericana especialista de cuestiones raciales, analiza los trabajos de la Comisión Corografica que recurriò el país colombiano a mediados del... more
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      Cultural History, Geography, Siglo XIX, Scientific Expeditions
Este artículo discute el papel de Alexander von Humboldt entre el declinante Imperio Español y la naciente nación americana durante su visita a los Estados Unidos en la primavera de 1804. Analiza el delicado balance que el Prusiano... more
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      Thomas Jefferson, Monarquía Hispánica, Estados Unidos, Scientific Expeditions
Denmark, being the coloniser of Greenland has had many an expedition there, primarily on the East Coast. The most famous of these was the Danmark expedition of 1906-08. Two bodies that were never found and some famous last words fuel the... more
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      Colonization, Denmark, Arctic, Greenland
For all Indonesian rock art lovers, I offer the Indonesian version of the book "Borneo, Memory of the Caves". The book is still available in print, but it is expensive to send to the archipelago. Enjoy ... Please share, enjoy but not... more
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      Prehistoric Archaeology, Rock Art (Archaeology), Scientific Expeditions, history of Borneo
In the nineteenth century, diverse geological, biological and anthropological features of the Island of Timor were explored and interpreted. Those explorations were often the by-product of travels with quite different goals, such as... more
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      Anthropology, Ethnography, Nineteenth Century, Scientific Expeditions
During his expedition to the rivers Rio Negro and Japurá between 1903 and 1905, the German ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grünberg amassed an ethnographic collection. Part of it he sold to the Royal Museum of Ethnology in Berlin and a smaller... more
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      Museum Studies, Ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History of Museums
The German ethnologist Theodor Koch-Grünberg (1872-1924) became one of the world’s leading Americanists of his era after having successfully concluded two expeditions to Amazonia. Between 1903 and 1905 he studied indigenous peoples... more
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      Ethnography, Social and Cultural Anthropology, History of Science, History of Anthropology
An interpretive bibliography involving works on the activities of the Russian empire and of Russian colonization in North America and the Pacific (1741-1867) -- but for the specific genre of Atlantic history, which privileges the early... more
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      Pacific Island Studies, Russian Foreign Policy, Siberia, Alaska Native Studies
Association for the Study of Modern Italy (ASMI),  28-29 Giugno 2019, Università degli Studi di Milano.
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      Ethnography, Colonialism, Natural History, Libya
This paper studies the role Alexander von Hum-boldt played as forerunner of an iconographic representation of the New World. Humboldt's aim was to provide a new image of America, based on actual facts, found in situ, and not coming out of... more
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      Artes, Pintura, Fotografia, Scientific Expeditions
Anlässlich des 250. Geburtstags des Forschungsreisenden Alexander von Humboldt findet 2019 eine vom Auswärtigen Amt initiierte Humboldtsaison in Lateinamerika statt. Ziel der Studie ist es, die Chancen und Herausforderungen dieses... more
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      Scientific Expeditions, alexander von Humboldt, Deutsche Außenpolitik, Wahrnehmung
Con motivo del 250 aniversario del nacimiento del explorador Alexander von Humboldt, en 2019 tiene lugar en Iberoamérica una temporada temática sobre Humboldt promovida por el Ministerio de Asuntos Exteriores de la República Federal... more
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      Cultura política, Scientific Expeditions, Iberoamérica, Percepciones
I am contributing this preliminary assessment of an under-utilized research resource in the study of Indonesian material culture in order to encourage readers, who may be familiar with particular areas where Abbott worked, to consider... more
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      Material Culture Studies, Indonesian Studies, Museum Anthropology, History of Museums
The abstract is not part of the thesis, but rather work in progress. In this paper, I compare two theories regarding natural language. One theory has been proposed by David Lewis, the other by Noam Chomsky. Lewis's theory consists of... more
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      Philosophy of Mind, Philosophy Of Language, Philosophy of Science, Semantics
Finnish-Mongolian Archaeological and Anthropological Expedition to Mongolia in 2019! Our expedition will be re-tracing in the summer 2019 the trail of the 1909 Finnish Mongolia expedition, 110 years after the original expedition by... more
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      Archaeology, Prehistoric Archaeology, Anthropology, Cultural Heritage
In 2016, a research team comprised of scientists from the University of Szczecin, the University of Adam Mickiewicz in Poznań and the Institute of Archaeology and Ethnology of the Polish Academy of Sciences made a reconnaissance... more
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      African Studies, Archaeology, North Africa Studies, Moroccan Studies
In the second half of the 19th century, the world is explored and mapped by European colonial powers bent on expanding their political and economic influence overseas. At the heart of such "geographical" activities there are geographical... more
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      Geography, Africa, Colonialism, Swiss History
Anales. Museo de América, vol. 4 (1996): 79-105.
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      American History, History of Science, Scientific Expeditions, Americanism
Bulletin Institut français des études andines, 32. 3 (2003): 441- 458.
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      History of Science, Scientific Expeditions, alexander von Humboldt