Overview: Explores in detail the Vatican’s Pontifical Missionary Exhibition (PME) of 1925.Demonstrates how national ethnographic museums in Europe constitute elitist dynasties.Highlights the historic entangleme.This book reveals the history of the Vatican’s ethnographic collections by exploring the imperial, scientific, technological, and religious agendas behind its collecting and curating practices in the early twentieth century. It focuses on two principal contributors: the academic, priest, and ‘Pope’s Curator’, Father Wilhelm Schmidt, SVD, and the missionary and linguist, Father Franz Kir
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