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Accepted Paper:
Precarious provenance - human remains from Africa's colonial past before 1919 in scientific collections of Baden-Württemberg
Annika Vosseler
(University of Tübingen, Museum of the University of Tübingen, Provenance Research)
Fabienne Huguenin
(Museum der Universität Tübingen MUT)
Paper short abstract:
The project's intended outcome is to reconstruct the historical networks of actors and institutions in Southwest Germany and to make the collected data accessible for the wider public and thus living up to legitimate claims of the "communities of implication".
Paper long abstract:
The recently initiated project "Precarious Provenance" at the Museum of the University Tübingen MUT aims at reconstructing the historical networks of actors and institutions in Baden-Württemberg that were involved in acquiring, collecting and transmitting human remains during the colonial period. Along with our partners from the Linden-Museum Stuttgart, the Natural History Museums Stuttgart and Karlsruhe and the Osteological Collection of the University Tübingen, we aspire to determine the provenance of the human remains and establish contacts with "communities of implication". The intended outcome is to present and visualise the collected data and thus making it accessible for the wider public and thus living up to legitimate claims of the "communities of implication".