Leonor Faber-Jonker
Leonor Faber-Jonker (1987) is an author and artist. In 2015, she graduated with honors from the research master Modern History at the University of Utrecht, with a thesis about the material practices surrounding skulls of victims of the genocide in German South-West Africa (1904-1908).
Leonor was the scientific curator of an exhibition on the Namibian genocide at the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris (25 November 2016 - 12 March 2017). Her book 'More Than Just an Object: A Material Analysis of the Return and Retention of Namibian Skulls from Germany' is based on her RMA thesis, runner-up of the Africa Thesis Award 2016. It has been published as volume 70 of the African Studies Collection of the ASC, Leiden (March 2018).
This book can be read online or ordered from the ASC webshop:
http://www.ascleiden.nl/news/more-just-object-material-analysis-return-and-retention-namibian-skulls-germany
www.leonorfaberjonker.nl
Supervisors: Jan-Bart Gewald and Alicia Schrikker
Leonor was the scientific curator of an exhibition on the Namibian genocide at the Mémorial de la Shoah, Paris (25 November 2016 - 12 March 2017). Her book 'More Than Just an Object: A Material Analysis of the Return and Retention of Namibian Skulls from Germany' is based on her RMA thesis, runner-up of the Africa Thesis Award 2016. It has been published as volume 70 of the African Studies Collection of the ASC, Leiden (March 2018).
This book can be read online or ordered from the ASC webshop:
http://www.ascleiden.nl/news/more-just-object-material-analysis-return-and-retention-namibian-skulls-germany
www.leonorfaberjonker.nl
Supervisors: Jan-Bart Gewald and Alicia Schrikker
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Despite the triumphant return of the skulls, not everything went smoothly. The Charité was criticized for failing to answer questions about the identity of the remains, and the Namibian government and Nama and Herero representatives failed to agree on their final resting place. This had everything to do with the complicated nature of the skulls involved. Faber-Jonker analyses how these human remains – remains of individuals – became war trophies, anthropological specimens, and, finally, evidence, symbols, and relics, by examining how, by whom, why, and in what context the skulls were physically handled in the practices of collecting (1904-1910), studying (1910-1924), and repatriating (2011).
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https://blog.uni-koeln.de/gssc-humboldt/en/touching-history/.
Despite the triumphant return of the skulls, not everything went smoothly. The Charité was criticized for failing to answer questions about the identity of the remains, and the Namibian government and Nama and Herero representatives failed to agree on their final resting place. This had everything to do with the complicated nature of the skulls involved. Faber-Jonker analyses how these human remains – remains of individuals – became war trophies, anthropological specimens, and, finally, evidence, symbols, and relics, by examining how, by whom, why, and in what context the skulls were physically handled in the practices of collecting (1904-1910), studying (1910-1924), and repatriating (2011).