Larissa Förster erforscht die Provenienz ethnologischer Sammlungen aus der Kolonialzeit, insbesondere deren Herkunftsgeschichte, Erwerbungskontexte und die Frage der Restitution. Sie organisiert internationale Fachaustausche zur Provenienzforschung und arbeitet an der Aufarbeitung von Sammlungsbeständen, die in europäischen Museen und Archiven lagern. Ihre Arbeit richtet sich an Museen, Archive, Gedenkstätten und Kulturinstitutionen, die ihre Sammlungen kritisch reflektieren und dokumentieren wollen. Sie verbindet dabei Archivforschung, historische Analyse und internationale Kooperation mit Herkunftsgemeinschaften und Fachkolleg:innen.
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Larissa Förster
HU-FIS-Profil ↗Human Remains and Violence An Interdisciplinary Journal · DOI
In 1885, the Berlin pathologist Rudolf Virchow presented three human skeletons from the colony of German South West Africa to the Berlin Society for Anthropology, Ethnology and Prehistory. The remains had been looted from a grave by a young German scientist, Waldemar Belck, who was a member of the second Lüderitz expedition and took part in the occupation of colonial territory. In an attempt to re-individualise and re-humanise these human remains, which were anonymised in the course of their appropriation by Western science, the authors consult not only the colonial archive, but also contemporary oral history in Namibia. This allows for a detailed reconstruction of the social and political contexts of the deaths of the three men, named Jacobus Hendrick, Jacobus !Garisib and Oantab, and of Belck’s grave robbery, for an analysis of how the remains were turned into scientific objects by German science and institutions, as well as for an establishment of topographical and genealogical links with the Namibian present. Based on these findings, claims for the restitution of African human remains from German institutions cannot any longer be regarded as a contemporary phenomenon only but must be understood as part of an African tradition of resistance against Western colonial and scientific practices.
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