The Contested Crown:Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico

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dc.contributor.authorZinnenburg Carroll, Khadija
dc.contributor.institutionDepartment of Historical Studies
dc.date.accessioned2025-04-23T12:05:02Z
dc.date.available2025-04-23T12:05:02Z
dc.date.issued2022
dc.description.abstractFollowing conflicting desires for an Aztec crown, this book explores the possibilities of repatriation. In The Contested Crown, Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll meditates on the case of a spectacular feather headdress believed to have belonged to Montezuma, emperor of the Aztecs. This crown has long been the center of political and cultural power struggles, and it is one of the most contested museum claims between Europe and the Americas. Taken to Europe during the conquest of Mexico, it was placed at Ambras Castle, the Habsburg residence of the author’s ancestors, and is now in Vienna’s Welt Museum. Mexico has long requested to have it back, but the Welt Museum uses science to insist it is too fragile to travel. Both the biography of a cultural object and a history of collecting and colonizing, this book offers an artist’s perspective on the creative potentials of repatriation. Carroll compares Holocaust and colonial ethical claims, and she considers relationships between indigenous people, international law and the museums that amass global treasures, the significance of copies, and how conservation science shapes collections. Illustrated with diagrams and rare archival material, this book brings together global history, European history, and material culture around this fascinating object and the debates about repatriation.eng
dc.identifier.citationZinnenburg Carroll, K 2022, The Contested Crown : Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexico. The University of Chicago Press. < https://bibliopen.org/p/bopen/9780226802237 >
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-226-80206-0
dc.identifier.isbn978-0-226-80223-7
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/20.500.14018/27646
dc.identifier.urlhttps://bibliopen.org/p/bopen/9780226802237
dc.language.isoeng
dc.publisherThe University of Chicago Press
dc.rightscc-by-nc-nd
dc.rights.urihttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/
dc.subjectCultural property
dc.subjectAztecs
dc.subjectVienna
dc.subjectRepatriation
dc.subjectAnthropological museums and collections
dc.subjectFeatherwork
dc.subjectMoral and ethical aspects
dc.subjectIndigenous
dc.subjectAntiquities
dc.subjectMexico
dc.subjectLatin America
dc.subjectArt
dc.subjectSocial Science
dc.subjectHistory
dc.titleThe Contested Crown:Repatriation Politics between Europe and Mexicoeng
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