Abstract
Midwestern Arcadia In the seventeenth century, the Banda Islands in Maluku, then known as the Spice Islands, were the only known source for true nutmeg. The Dutch East India Company (Vereenigde Oostindische Compagnie, or VOC) sought control of this lucrative trade with brutal military force. This paper explores the role of visual culture in the collective memory of the Dutch presence, from VOC coins still turning up in the fields to the fort that still towers over Neira Town. Even when recent Muslim-Christian violence left the Dutch Reformed Church a burned-out ruin, the seventeenth-century gravestones paving the floor survived to remind the inhabitants of the bones in Banda. DOI: 10.18277/makf.2015.14 THE BONES IN BANDA: VISION, ART AND MEMORY IN MALUKU
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