Fashioning Cultural Representations: Pioneer Colonial Explorers and Dutch Borneo’s Gentle Headhunters
Photographic images of interior Dutch Borneo’s nature and, more particularly, her peoples and cultures are examined as they were produced and used around the turn of the twentieth century, from their creation in the context of pioneer exploration across the island to their presentation and display, in various forms, for consumption by the general public back in Europe. A young Dutch army medical officer, later university professor, Anton Nieuwenhuis, a talented Indo military topographer and photographer, Jean Demmeni, and an elderly Norwegian professional explorer, Carl Lumholtz: These three m... Mehr ...
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Dokumenttyp: | Artikel |
Erscheinungsdatum: | 2024 |
Reihe/Periodikum: | URI:https://journals.openedition.org/moussons |
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Moussons
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Schlagwörter: | Bornéo / exploration / photographie / chasseurs de têtes / textes et images / représentation culturelle / Borneo / photography / headhunters / text and images / cultural representations |
Sprache: | Englisch |
Permalink: | https://search.fid-benelux.de/Record/base-29416019 |
Datenquelle: | BASE; Originalkatalog |
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Link(s) : | https://doi.org/10.4000/120zq |
Photographic images of interior Dutch Borneo’s nature and, more particularly, her peoples and cultures are examined as they were produced and used around the turn of the twentieth century, from their creation in the context of pioneer exploration across the island to their presentation and display, in various forms, for consumption by the general public back in Europe. A young Dutch army medical officer, later university professor, Anton Nieuwenhuis, a talented Indo military topographer and photographer, Jean Demmeni, and an elderly Norwegian professional explorer, Carl Lumholtz: These three major, yet quite different, players of the “there and then” scene strongly contributed, each in his own way, through the combined power of their visual and textual testimonies, to the shaping of affirmative representations, ideas, and imageries among their home public about Borneo and the peoples of her hinterland, these independent Dayak tribes, which had long been suffering from prejudiced reports, disrepute, and outright ignominy. ; Une documentation photographique des régions intérieures de Bornéo, de leurs peuples et de leurs cultures, produite au tournant du xxe siècle par les premières explorations au centre de l’île, fut utilisée sous diverses formes pour être présentée au public européen. Derrière cette documentation, trois acteurs importants, quoique très différents – Anton Nieuwenhuis, jeune médecin de l’armée coloniale hollandaise et futur professeur d’université, Jean Demmeni, topographe et photographe militaire métis de talent, et Carl Lumholtz, un vieil explorateur professionnel norvégien –, contribuèrent vigoureusement, chacun de sa façon, par l’effet conjoint de leur témoignage visuel et textuel, à la création parmi le public de représentations, d’idées et d’images avantageuses de Bornéo et des tribus de son intérieur, ces tribus dayak libres qui avaient si longtemps souffert de descriptions malveillantes et d’une épouvantable réputation.