Alfred Schachtzabels Reise nach Angola 1913–1914 und seine Sammlungen für das Museum für Völkerkunde in Berlin

Rekonstruktion einer ethnographischen Quelle

Author: Beatrix Heintze. Series edited by: Beatrix Heintze.

Series: Afrika-Archiv Volume 1

1995
378 pp.
14 maps (two of them folding maps), 174 b/w photos, numerous drawings
Text language(s): German
Format: 160 x 240 mm
820 g
Paperback
€ 69.80

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Alfred Schachtzabel’s expedition to Central Angola during the years 1913–1914 was aimed above all at collecting ethnographic books and studies for the Berliner Völkerkundemuseum (Berlin’s Museum of Ethnology, Germany). Unfortunately, more than three fourth of his material objects and records got lost during World Wars I and II. Until now, the results of his research have been published in popularized form only.

This book’s “integrated source edition” takes up the ethnographical and geographical parts of the expedition report published by Schachtzabel and adds a scientific treatment of all original sources available which have not been published hitherto and seem relevant in this context. These include additional anthropological and linguistic information and above all a catalogue of Schachtzabel’s collection in Berlin, containing photographs of the objects if they were available.

Schachtzabel’s objects being documented in their scholarly context are thus also accessible to Angolans (even though only in German for the time being), these collections, photographs and records of the expedition being part of their cultural heritage.

Under these links you will publications by the author and further ethnographical reconstructions:

Accompanying material:

• Afrikaner schreiben zurück (ISBN 978-3-89645-053-1)
• Die ethnographische Sammlung aus Südwest-Angola im Museum von Dundo, Angola (1954). Katalog (ISBN 978-3-89645-161-3)
• Max Buchners Reise nach Zentralafrika 1878–1882 (ISBN 978-3-89645-160-6)
• Studien zur Geschichte Angolas im 16. und 17. Jahrhundert (ISBN 978-3-927620-96-4)

Cross-reference:

• “Grandmother’s Footsteps” (ISBN 978-3-89645-056-2)
• “Healing the Land” – Kaulinge’s History of Kwanyama (ISBN 978-3-89645-051-7)
• “When War came the Cattle slept” (ISBN 978-3-89645-049-4)
• Cultural Change in the Prehistory of Arid Africa (ISBN 978-3-89645-092-0)
• Great Zimbabwe (ISBN 978-3-89645-210-8)
• Heinrich Barth et l’Afrique (ISBN 978-3-89645-220-7)
• Naaho Nubo – The Ways of Our Ancestors (ISBN 978-3-89645-420-1)
• The Kavango Peoples in the Past (ISBN 978-3-89645-353-2)
• The People of the Rwenzoris (ISBN 978-3-89645-421-8)
• Trade, Merchants and the State in Borno, c. 1893-1939 (ISBN 978-3-89645-212-2)
• Vorkoloniale Geschichte und Expansion der Avungara-Azande (ISBN 978-3-89645-209-2)

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