Colonialism and Enslavement in a Bottle: Guiding People through an Exhibition in the German Historical Museum

IF 0.5 0 HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY

Narrative Culture Pub Date : 2022-08-30 DOI:10.1353/ncu.2022.0013

P. Helber

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Abstract

Abstract:In the exhibition entitled "Europe and the Sea" at the German Historical Museum in Berlin, visitors were confronted with a modern bottle of Johannsen-brand rum that served to illuminate the transatlantic "slave trade" and the enslavement of Africans. The bottle, with an old map of the Caribbean on its label, was presented as a hands-on object. My contribution focuses on discussions between visitors and tour guides on the past and present effects of colonialism. All these conversations were triggered by the bottle, which created a post-colonial narrative between the other historical objects in that part of the exhibition and the everyday life of the visitors themselves.

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殖民主义与瓶中奴役：在德国历史博物馆的展览中引导人们

摘要：在柏林德国历史博物馆举办的题为“欧洲与海洋”的展览中，游客们看到了一瓶现代的约翰森牌朗姆酒，这瓶朗姆酒旨在阐明跨大西洋的“奴隶贸易”和对非洲人的奴役。这个瓶子的标签上有一张旧的加勒比海地图，是作为一个实物赠送的。我的贡献集中在游客和导游之间关于殖民主义过去和现在影响的讨论上。所有这些对话都是由瓶子引发的，瓶子在展览的其他历史物品和游客自己的日常生活之间创造了一种后殖民叙事。

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Narrative Culture HUMANITIES, MULTIDISCIPLINARY-

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期刊介绍： Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.