Material Culture in Transit (eBook, ePUB)

Theory and Practice
Redaktion: Jallo, Zainabu

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice constellates curators and scholars actively working with material culture within academic and museal institutions through theory and practice.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 218
• Erscheinungstermin: 31. März 2023
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781000847994
• Artikelnr.: 67503331

Autorenporträt

Zainabu Jallo is a Post-Doctoral Researcher and lecturer in Anthropology at the Universities of Basel and Bern, Switzerland. Her PhD in Anthropology is from the Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern. she is also a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Anthropology at USP - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Jallo is one of the Principal Investigators of the" Sacral Architecture Africa" Project. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts England and a member of the UNESCO Coalition of Artists for the General History of Africa. Her scholarly interests include museum anthropology, diaspora studies, iconic criticism, and material culture.

Inhaltsangabe

List of figures
Contributors
Preface
Acknowledgements
Moving Matter: Worlds f Material Culture
Zainabu Jallo
Part I Museology Representation and Colonial Liabilities
1. After Interpretive Dominance
Anna Schmid
2. "Wo Ist Afrika?": Of Reflexive Museography, and Other (Productive?)
Disappointments
Sandra Ferracuti
3. "Out of Context"- Translocation of West African Artefacts to European
Museums: The Case of the Leo Frobenius Collection From Mali
Cécile Bründlmayer
4. The Museum as a Colonial Archive. The Collection of Victor and Marie
Solioz and Its Role in Forgetting the Colonial Past
Samuel B. Bachmann
5. Museum Collections in Transit: Towards A History of The Artefacts Of The
Endeavour Voyage
Nicholas Thomas
Part II Heuristic Materiality Meanings and Transformations
6. "To Give Away My Collection For Free Would Be Nonsense": Decorations And
The Emergence Of Ethnology In Imperial Germany
Carl Deussen
7. Discourse On Objectification And Personification: Modern Forms Of
Material Cultural Identity In The Touareg Society
Djouroukoro Diallo
8. The Material Culture Of Vodun: Case Studies From Ghana, Togo, Germany
And In-Between
Niklas Wolf
9. Ndambirkus and Ndaokus; Asmat Skulls In Transit
Jan Joris Visser
10. On The Art Of Forging Gods: Techniques, Forces And Materials In An
Afro-Brazilian Religion.
Lucas Marques