Adolf Bernhard Meyer [1840-1911] kunye neNgqokelela yeMyuziyam yeXesha lamaKoloniyali eDresden – EJamani | Indonesia | IiPhilippines | Swizalend
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UAdolf Bernhard Meyer (b. Hamburg 1840, d. Berlin 1911) wayengusosayensi waseJamani owayesebenza njengomlawuli weRoyal Zoological and Anthropological-Ethnographic Museum Dresden (das Königlich Zoologisches und Anthropologisch-Ethnographisches Museum Dresden) iminyaka engama-30. Okubalulekileyo kukuba, waseka iKhabhinethi ye-Ethnographic kwiMyuziyam yaseRoyal phakathi kwe-1875 kunye ne-1878 kwaye wayalela ukuqokelelwa kwezixhobo ze-ethnographic ezivela kuMzantsi-mpuma we-Asia kunye ne-Pacific ngaphezu kweminyaka engama-30.
Phambi kokuqeshwa kwakhe ngo-1874, waqokelela ingqokelela yezilwanyana, i-anthropological, kunye ne-ethnological kuhambo lophando lwabucala (1870-73) ukuya kwi-Indonesia yanamhlanje kunye neePhilippines. Ngexesha lolawulo lwakhe ingqokelela yakhe yathengwa yiRoyal Museum, phakathi kwamanye amaziko kulo lonke elaseYurophu, kwaye ihleli kwindawo yokulandela iimyuziyam namhlanje. Ngelixa uMeyer wayenomdla kakhulu kuphando lwezilwanyana, wathatha inxaxheba kumsebenzi we-anthropological kunye ne-ethnographic. Ngenkulungwane yeshumi elinesithoba eJamani, i-anthropology yayibhekiselele kwi-anthropology yomzimba, injongo yayo yobuhlanga yayikukufunda ukwahluka kweempawu zomzimba womntu, ngakumbi ukhakhayi, kunye nokubonelela ngobungqina obunobungqina bokungafani kobuhlanga. I-Ethnology ibhekiselele kwi-anthropology yenkcubeko egxile endaweni yokufunda inkcubeko yezinto zamaqela ahlukeneyo. Ukufunda omabini amacandelo kwakuqhelekile kwizazinzulu ezifana noMeyer kunye nabantu ababephila ngexesha lakhe.
Nangona uhambo lukaMeyer lwenzeka ngaphambi kwexesha lobukoloniyali elisemthethweni laseJamani (1884-1918), ukuhamba kwakhe kunye nokupapasha kwakhe kunokusinceda siqonde ukuba i-colonialism kunye ne-anthropology yaseJamani kunye ne-ethnology zadibana njani. Babonisa indlela iimbono zesayensi ezazihamba ngayo kulo lonke elaseYurophu nakwilizwe lobukoloniyali, kunye nohlobo lwezifundo kunye neentetho zikawonke-wonke ezaziza kwazisa iimbono zaseJamani zabantu bomthonyama kuMzantsi-mpuma weAsia nakwiPasifiki, abanye babo ababeza kuthi kungekudala babe phantsi kweJamani. ulawulo lobukoloniyali.
References:
GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde zu Leipzig: “Decolonisation, restitution, and repatriation.” Webpage.
Howes, Hilary: Anglo-German Anthropology in the Malay Archipelago, 1869-1910: Adolf Bernhard Meyer, Alfred Russel Wallace and A.C. Haddon, in: Anglo-German Scholarly Networks in the Long Nineteenth Century, 2014, pp. 126-146.
Howes, Hilary: ‘Shrieking Savages’ and ‘Men of Milder Customs’: Dr Adolf Bernhard Meyer in New Guinea, 1873, in: The Journal of Pacific History, 2012, pp. 21-44.
Martin, Petra: The Dresden Philippine Collection as Reflected in the History of Research, in: Delfin Tolentino, jr. (Ed.): Traveller and Collector. 19th Century Germans in the Cordillera. Forthcoming.
Museum für Völkerkunde Dresden: “About Us.” Webpage.
Petrou, Marissa Helene: Disciplines of Collection: Founding the Dresden Museum for Zoology, Anthropology and Ethnology in Imperial Germany. Doctoral Dissertation, 2016.
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