Re-telling the story of Selk'nam ancestors
From Karokynká/Tierra del Fuego to Austria
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 4531354 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Fernanda Olivares (0009-0005-7883-590X, Natural History Museum Vienna), Constanze Schattke (0000-0003-4658-8893, Natural History Museum Vienna), Hema’ny Molina (Natural History Museum Vienna), Margit Berner (0000-0001-8922-7268, Natural History Museum Vienna), Sabine Egger (0000-0003-4002-0754, Natural History Museum Vienna) |
| Year | 2023 |
| Volume | 9 |
| Issue | 1 |
| Pages | 49-69 |
| Publication date | 2023-04-28 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Human Remains and Violence An Interdisciplinary Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 2054-2240 • E-ISSN: 2054-2240 |
| Publisher | Manchester University Press (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.7227/hrv.9.1.4 |
| OpenAlex | W4367309560 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 1 |
| References cited | 15 |
Museums are places characterised by collecting objects, displaying them for public education and also subjecting their collections to research. Yet knowledge can not only be created by using the collection for research. The history of a collection can also be reconstructed, albeit mostly in a fragmentary way. This is important when there is evidence that the collection was acquired in a colonial context, when the collection contains human remains and more so if these were taken from Indigenous peoples. Reconstructing the history of a collection can assist source communities in strengthening their identities and help to regain lost knowledge about their ancestors. This study analyses the provenance of fourteen crania and calvaria of the Selk'nam people from Tierra del Fuego, stored at the Department of Anthropology, Natural History Museum Vienna. Additionally, the significance of these results and their meaning for today's Selk'nam community Covadonga Ona will be contextualised within the framework of colonial history and museum systems
Archaeology · Biology · Colonialism · Crania · Ethnology · Genealogy · Geography · Indigenous · Natural history · Sociology · Traditional knowledge · Anthropology · Geographies of human-animal interactions · History · Museums and Cultural Heritage · Pleistocene-Era Hominins and Archaeology · Ecology
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Identification of the geographic origins of people buried in the cemetery of the Salesian Mission of Tierra del Fuego through the analyses of mtDNA and stable isotopes
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Habsburg Colonial
Fueguian crania and the circum‐Pacific rim variation
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The social and political origins of German diffusionist ethnology
Los 'fueguinos', Robert Lehmann-Nitsche y el estudio de los onas en la Exposición Nacional de Buenos Aires (1898)
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| Unique citing works | 1 |
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| Citations per year | 1 |
| Citation span | 2026 - 2026 (1) |
| Citation velocity | current |
| Highly cited | No |