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

Rezensionen

"Material Culture in Transit offers a provocative reflection on the relationship between mobility and materiality, things and their social and historical trajectories. Starting with recent controversial public debates on museum inventories-salient questions on provenance and restitution-the book challenges the relative insularity of some of these debates. A key contribution of this essay collection, as I see it, is that it situates the circulation of museum objects-now at the center of so-called "provenance research"-within broader forms of material culture circulation. It explores what emerges along the paths of circulating things." - George Paul Meiu, University of Basel

"Material Culture in Transit offers a provocative reflection on the relationship between mobility and materiality, things and their social and historical trajectories. Starting with recent controversial public debates on museum inventories-salient questions on provenance and restitution-the book challenges the relative insularity of some of these debates. A key contribution of this essay collection, as I see it, is that it situates the circulation of museum objects-now at the center of so-called "provenance research"-within broader forms of material culture circulation. It explores what emerges along the paths of circulating things." - George Paul Meiu, University of Basel