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<p>This book reveals the history of the Vatican’s ethnographic collections by exploring the imperial, scientific, technological, and religious agendas behind its collecting and curating practices in the early twentieth century. It focuses on two principal contributors: the academic, priest, and ‘Pope’s Curator’, Father Wilhelm Schmidt, SVD, and the missionary and linguist, Father Franz Kirschbaum, SVD. Their narratives are embedded in a unique set of comparisons between the ‘liberal humanist ide
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- Author
- Alison L. Kahn
- Publisher
- Springer Nature Singapore Pte Ltd Fka Springer Science + Business Media Singapore Pte Ltd
- Published
- 2023
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9789819931897
- Category
- art
- Subjects
- Technology, Philosophy, History
- Updated
- 2026-03-25
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