Markéta Křížová
Biographic Data
| ID | 171439 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Markéta Křížová |
| GIVEN NAMES | Markéta |
| FAMILY NAME | Křížová |
| SIGNATURE | KŘÍŽOVÁ M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Charles University |
| ORCID | 0000-0003-1914-3477 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 19 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 4 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 18 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 1 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2015 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2026 |
| H-INDEX | 1 |
The Southwestern Collections of E. St. Vráz (1900) in the Náprstek Museum
This text is dedicated to a rare collection of artefacts and photographs deposited in the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures (henceforth the Náprstek Museum). The collection was acquired in 1900 by the Czech traveller E. St. Vráz in Arizona. The purpose of the article is, first, to summarise the known facts regarding Vráz’s journey, provenance of the objects, and the circumstances under which the photographs were taken, to ta…
Eduard Jedlička
American institutions hold collections of early phonograph cylinders, including a remarkable set of Czech recordings titled “Jedličkovy české rekordy” (Jedlička’s Czech records) named after Eduard Jedlička, a Czech immigrant to the United States. Jedlička’s records and songs were popular among the Czech minority in the early twentieth century, significantly contributing to their sound cultural heritage. Jedlička’s story has only recently begun to…
“A Czech, Not Austrian Traveler”
This article is based on a case study of E. St. Vráz (ca. 1860–1932), a popular traveler and intellectual of (allegedly) Czech origin who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, worked toward strengthening the national identity of Czech migrant communities in the United States. The text examines how Vráz was perceived by these communities and which of his activities and opinions appealed specifically to them. Vráz’s self-identificati…
European University Legacies
African Studies in the Czech Republic
The first part of the text summarizes the early phase of Czech African studies that took placewithin the context of “colonial fantasies”, and aspirations to belong among the “civilized”, domi-nating European nations. Subsequent developments in the second half of the twentieth cen-tury evolved within the framework of the Cold War. The core of the article focuses on Czech Afri-can studies after 1989. The end of the communist regime in Czechoslovaki…
Hidden histories of scientific voyeurism
The article explores how the ‘African woman’ was constructed in Central Europe (namely, the Czech lands) of the late nineteenth century within the context of the colonialist fantasies that arose around the modernisation processes and nationalist competitions of this period. Case studies of three African women who at some point became entangled with and known within the Czech lands (a young African maidservant, an ethnographic show performer and a…
The varieties of European colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe
This essay examines the Polish and the Czech engagements with colonization. Whilst the present-day Poland and the Czech Republic are often perceived as nations “without colonies”, the Central European region throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries developed colonial imaginations as part of the “varieties of European colonialism” channeled towards the local needs. By focusing on individuals as well as collective entities linked to variou…
Dónde estaba su hogar? Un migrante checo en México, en medio de la Revolución y la Guerra Fría
Gracias a la modernización del transporte, tanto marítimo como terrestre, que permitía travesías más cortas, rápidas y seguras, hacia finales del siglo XIX se diversificó considerablemente el mercado de trabajo en el espacio atlántico y empezaron a entrar en este mercado también los habitantes de regiones que históricamente carecían de acceso al mar. Tal fue el caso de los obreros migrantes de los países checos, unidad geográfica ubicada en el ce…
L'explorateur tchèque Alberto Vojtěch Frič et ses efforts pour protéger les indigènes brésiliens au début du XXe siècle
Ce texte porte sur une brève période, au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles, au cours de laquelle les routes des sociétés tchèque et brésilienne se sont croisées. Durant son séjour dans le sud du Brésil en 1907-1908, Vojtěch Frič, un aventurier, explorateur, botaniste et anthropologue tchèque, s'est engagé avec passion dans la protection des habitants indigènes contre l'empiètement des colons allemands sur leurs territoires. La séquence plus partic…
Curators, objects and the indigenous agency
The article deals with specific field within the history of science: the institutional as well as biographical history of anthropological and archaeological museums. Through several case studies, more general questions are explored, those that inquire into the role of museums in delineating the agenda of anthropology and archaeology; the role of leading personalities of this discipline in envisioning and operating the museum institutions; the rel…
Skulls from Tiwanaku
Julius Nestler, high school teacher and amateur archaeologist from Prague, brought home more than 3,500 archaeological and anthropological artifacts from his expedition to Bolivia (1909–1912). At present they are in the possession of the Náprstek Museum in Prague. a smaller corpus of human bones, especially skulls, some deformed (elongated) and/or trepanned, were deposited at the Hrdlička Museum of Man (Charles University in Prague). Nestler’s se…
Alone in the Country of the Catholics
The ethnographic shows of the end of the 19 th century responded to an increased hunger for the exotic, especially among the bourgeois classes in Europe and North America, and to the establishment of both physical and cultural anthropology as scientific disciplines with a need for study material. At the same time they served as a manifestation of European superiority in the time of the last phase of colonialist thrust to other continents. “Scient…
Maroon Cosmopolitics
Strava svinská, pokrm a dar boží
Studie se soustředí na problém nepřímých kulturních transferů v atlantickém prostoru v raně novověkém období, zejména na transfery ve sféře materiální kultury (kulinární praktiky) a jejich širší důsledky. Jako případovou studii představuje autorka zavádění brambor v zemích České Koruny v osmnáctém století. Dalším cílem studie je prověřit využitelnost konceptů původně navržených pro popis kulturních transferů v mimoevropských regionech (transkultu…
"Retorno de la civilización" a Quiriguá
Estudiar la historia de las exploraciones arqueológicas de la localidad de Quiriguá, Guatemala, sirve como un punto de partida hacia reflexiones más generales sobre la naturaleza de la disciplina arqueológica, ayudando a situarla en un contexto sociopolítico mucho más amplio. Desde sus inicios en el siglo XIX, la arqueología se ha encontrado bajo la influencia de las ideologías hegemónicas de la época, el nacionalismo y el imperialismo. Estas inf…
The History of Human Stupidity”
The present article represents a partial outcome of a larger project that focuses on the history of the beginnings of anthropology as an organized science at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, in the broader socio-political context of Central Europe. Attention is focused especially on the nationalist and social competitions that had an important impact upon intellectual developments, but in turn were influence…
To the Origins of American Archaeology in the Czech Lands
The basis for the present article is the case study of Julius Nestler, amateur archaeologist from Prague, who at the beginning of the twentieth century pursued excavations in the ruins of Tiahuanaco and brought to Prague a unique collection of about 3,600 pieces, deposited now in the Náprstek Museum in Prague. His activities are put into the broader context of the origins of Americanist archaeology and anthropology in Central Europe, against a ba…
Julius Nestler and the “Nestler Collection” in the Náprstek Museum
The text aims to present the broader context and biography of Julius Nestler, an amateur archaeologist from Prague, who at the beginning of the twentieth century pursued excavations in the ruins of Tiahuanaco/Tiwanaku and brought to Prague a unique collection of about 3,600 pieces, now deposited in the Náprstek Museum in Prague. A biographical study of Nestler has revealed his wide interests. During the period of Czech-German competition in Bohem…
Kulturní transfery (nejen) na koloniální hranici nového světa
Pohraniční oblasti koloniálních říší se nabízí jako takřka ideální prostor pro studium obousměrných kulturních transferů. Předkládaný článek zkoumá možnosti a také meze studia kulturních transferů a tzv. provázaných dějin entangled history/histoire croisée na příkladu jezuitských misií na hranici španělských kolonií v Americe, zvláště na severním pomezí místokrálovství Nové Španělsko (dnešní Mexiko a Střední Amerika). V historiografii byly jezuit…
The varieties of European colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe
This essay examines the Polish and the Czech engagements with colonization. Whilst the present-day Poland and the Czech Republic are often perceived as nations “without colonies”, the Central European region throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries developed colonial imaginations as part of the “varieties of European colonialism” channeled towards the local needs. By focusing on individuals as well as collective entities linked to variou…
"Retorno de la civilización" a Quiriguá
Estudiar la historia de las exploraciones arqueológicas de la localidad de Quiriguá, Guatemala, sirve como un punto de partida hacia reflexiones más generales sobre la naturaleza de la disciplina arqueológica, ayudando a situarla en un contexto sociopolítico mucho más amplio. Desde sus inicios en el siglo XIX, la arqueología se ha encontrado bajo la influencia de las ideologías hegemónicas de la época, el nacionalismo y el imperialismo. Estas inf…
Kulturní transfery (nejen) na koloniální hranici nového světa
Pohraniční oblasti koloniálních říší se nabízí jako takřka ideální prostor pro studium obousměrných kulturních transferů. Předkládaný článek zkoumá možnosti a také meze studia kulturních transferů a tzv. provázaných dějin entangled history/histoire croisée na příkladu jezuitských misií na hranici španělských kolonií v Americe, zvláště na severním pomezí místokrálovství Nové Španělsko (dnešní Mexiko a Střední Amerika). V historiografii byly jezuit…
To the Origins of American Archaeology in the Czech Lands
The basis for the present article is the case study of Julius Nestler, amateur archaeologist from Prague, who at the beginning of the twentieth century pursued excavations in the ruins of Tiahuanaco and brought to Prague a unique collection of about 3,600 pieces, deposited now in the Náprstek Museum in Prague. His activities are put into the broader context of the origins of Americanist archaeology and anthropology in Central Europe, against a ba…
Julius Nestler and the “Nestler Collection” in the Náprstek Museum
The text aims to present the broader context and biography of Julius Nestler, an amateur archaeologist from Prague, who at the beginning of the twentieth century pursued excavations in the ruins of Tiahuanaco/Tiwanaku and brought to Prague a unique collection of about 3,600 pieces, now deposited in the Náprstek Museum in Prague. A biographical study of Nestler has revealed his wide interests. During the period of Czech-German competition in Bohem…
The History of Human Stupidity”
The present article represents a partial outcome of a larger project that focuses on the history of the beginnings of anthropology as an organized science at the end of the nineteenth and the beginning of the twentieth centuries, in the broader socio-political context of Central Europe. Attention is focused especially on the nationalist and social competitions that had an important impact upon intellectual developments, but in turn were influence…
Strava svinská, pokrm a dar boží
Studie se soustředí na problém nepřímých kulturních transferů v atlantickém prostoru v raně novověkém období, zejména na transfery ve sféře materiální kultury (kulinární praktiky) a jejich širší důsledky. Jako případovou studii představuje autorka zavádění brambor v zemích České Koruny v osmnáctém století. Dalším cílem studie je prověřit využitelnost konceptů původně navržených pro popis kulturních transferů v mimoevropských regionech (transkultu…
"Retorno de la civilización" a Quiriguá
Estudiar la historia de las exploraciones arqueológicas de la localidad de Quiriguá, Guatemala, sirve como un punto de partida hacia reflexiones más generales sobre la naturaleza de la disciplina arqueológica, ayudando a situarla en un contexto sociopolítico mucho más amplio. Desde sus inicios en el siglo XIX, la arqueología se ha encontrado bajo la influencia de las ideologías hegemónicas de la época, el nacionalismo y el imperialismo. Estas inf…
Alone in the Country of the Catholics
The ethnographic shows of the end of the 19 th century responded to an increased hunger for the exotic, especially among the bourgeois classes in Europe and North America, and to the establishment of both physical and cultural anthropology as scientific disciplines with a need for study material. At the same time they served as a manifestation of European superiority in the time of the last phase of colonialist thrust to other continents. “Scient…
Maroon Cosmopolitics
Curators, objects and the indigenous agency
The article deals with specific field within the history of science: the institutional as well as biographical history of anthropological and archaeological museums. Through several case studies, more general questions are explored, those that inquire into the role of museums in delineating the agenda of anthropology and archaeology; the role of leading personalities of this discipline in envisioning and operating the museum institutions; the rel…
Skulls from Tiwanaku
Julius Nestler, high school teacher and amateur archaeologist from Prague, brought home more than 3,500 archaeological and anthropological artifacts from his expedition to Bolivia (1909–1912). At present they are in the possession of the Náprstek Museum in Prague. a smaller corpus of human bones, especially skulls, some deformed (elongated) and/or trepanned, were deposited at the Hrdlička Museum of Man (Charles University in Prague). Nestler’s se…
L'explorateur tchèque Alberto Vojtěch Frič et ses efforts pour protéger les indigènes brésiliens au début du XXe siècle
Ce texte porte sur une brève période, au tournant des XIXe et XXe siècles, au cours de laquelle les routes des sociétés tchèque et brésilienne se sont croisées. Durant son séjour dans le sud du Brésil en 1907-1908, Vojtěch Frič, un aventurier, explorateur, botaniste et anthropologue tchèque, s'est engagé avec passion dans la protection des habitants indigènes contre l'empiètement des colons allemands sur leurs territoires. La séquence plus partic…
Dónde estaba su hogar? Un migrante checo en México, en medio de la Revolución y la Guerra Fría
Gracias a la modernización del transporte, tanto marítimo como terrestre, que permitía travesías más cortas, rápidas y seguras, hacia finales del siglo XIX se diversificó considerablemente el mercado de trabajo en el espacio atlántico y empezaron a entrar en este mercado también los habitantes de regiones que históricamente carecían de acceso al mar. Tal fue el caso de los obreros migrantes de los países checos, unidad geográfica ubicada en el ce…
European University Legacies
African Studies in the Czech Republic
The first part of the text summarizes the early phase of Czech African studies that took placewithin the context of “colonial fantasies”, and aspirations to belong among the “civilized”, domi-nating European nations. Subsequent developments in the second half of the twentieth cen-tury evolved within the framework of the Cold War. The core of the article focuses on Czech Afri-can studies after 1989. The end of the communist regime in Czechoslovaki…
Hidden histories of scientific voyeurism
The article explores how the ‘African woman’ was constructed in Central Europe (namely, the Czech lands) of the late nineteenth century within the context of the colonialist fantasies that arose around the modernisation processes and nationalist competitions of this period. Case studies of three African women who at some point became entangled with and known within the Czech lands (a young African maidservant, an ethnographic show performer and a…
The varieties of European colonialism in Central and Eastern Europe
This essay examines the Polish and the Czech engagements with colonization. Whilst the present-day Poland and the Czech Republic are often perceived as nations “without colonies”, the Central European region throughout the nineteenth and twentieth centuries developed colonial imaginations as part of the “varieties of European colonialism” channeled towards the local needs. By focusing on individuals as well as collective entities linked to variou…
The Southwestern Collections of E. St. Vráz (1900) in the Náprstek Museum
This text is dedicated to a rare collection of artefacts and photographs deposited in the Náprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures (henceforth the Náprstek Museum). The collection was acquired in 1900 by the Czech traveller E. St. Vráz in Arizona. The purpose of the article is, first, to summarise the known facts regarding Vráz’s journey, provenance of the objects, and the circumstances under which the photographs were taken, to ta…
Eduard Jedlička
American institutions hold collections of early phonograph cylinders, including a remarkable set of Czech recordings titled “Jedličkovy české rekordy” (Jedlička’s Czech records) named after Eduard Jedlička, a Czech immigrant to the United States. Jedlička’s records and songs were popular among the Czech minority in the early twentieth century, significantly contributing to their sound cultural heritage. Jedlička’s story has only recently begun to…
“A Czech, Not Austrian Traveler”
This article is based on a case study of E. St. Vráz (ca. 1860–1932), a popular traveler and intellectual of (allegedly) Czech origin who, in the late nineteenth and early twentieth century, worked toward strengthening the national identity of Czech migrant communities in the United States. The text examines how Vráz was perceived by these communities and which of his activities and opinions appealed specifically to them. Vráz’s self-identificati…
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