Full Description
The central European lands of the Habsburg monarchy have long shared an intertwined past with the Indigenous inhabitants of the Americas. This volume focuses on the process of encountering these peoples as a continual action across several centuries that has produced numerous and varied instances of cultural dialogues, perspectives, and understandings. Moreover, this central European element is something that has not been considered in its own right before now and has been overshadowed by the focus on a wider Germanic fascination for Indigenous cultures. Breaking away from this wider narrative allows us not only to recover a more distinct historical connection but also uncovers the particular dynamics of direct and indirect contact between Indigenous worlds and that of the Habsburg monarchy.
Contents
List of Figures, Foreword, Introduction: Reencountering Native America from the Habsburg Lands, 1. The Royal Fifth and the Rights of Indians : Charles V and His Display of Mexican Material Culture, 2. Plumes of Power : Depictions of the Native American in Viennese Festival Culture before 1700, 3. Jesuit Missionaries from Central European Territories in Northwestern New Spain, 1680-1767, 4. "People of the Devil"—"People of Achilles" : The Representation of Native America in Religious Practice, Translations, and Collections in Hungary, 1670-1840, 5. Neither Red Enough nor Fierce Enough : The Construction of Native Americans in Nineteenth-Century Czech Culture, 6. "Poor Indians! Strangers in Your Own Land!" : The Attitude of a Hungarian Traveler Towards the Native Americans in Jacksonian America, 7. Myriad Missions: Native Americans and the Leopoldine Society, 8. Reencountering Trade Legacies , Indigenous Histories, and the Early Leopoldine Society Circle in the Vienna Weltmuseum, 9. The Seljan Brothers, Native Americans, and the Ethnographic Museum in Zagreb, 10. Staged Representation : The Perception of Native Americans, "Ethnological Expositions," and Wild West Shows in the German-Speaking Austro-Hungarian Press (1870-1918), 11. "Rothäute von Heute" : Deskaheh's Petition for Recognized Indigenous Sovereignty at the End of the Austro-Hungarian Empire, 12. Who Are the Indians? Hans Larwin and the Visualization of the Roma and Native Americans in Interwar Austrian Popular Art and Visual Culture, 13. Richard Erdoes, Red Power's Ally, Afterword, Index
