- Research Article
- 10.4000/1451e
Appropriation, Provenance, and Restitution: The Case of Verbal Arts
- Jan 01, 2024
- Gradhiva
- Irene Albers + 1 more +1
Stuttgart, 2021: The publishing house Reclam brings out a gift book titled The Most Beautiful Tales from Africa. It is clear from a glance at the list of sources, which refers, among other things, to the anthologies of Carl Meinhof (1917), Leo Frobenius (1923), and Carl Einstein (1925), that the book is a compilation of texts from older collections (Fig. 1), which were themselves put together from the collected texts of ethnologists, administrators, and missionaries. No mention is made of wh...
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