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Across anthropology : troubling colonial legacies, museums, and the curatorial /

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How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practiced 'elsewhere' and 'otherwise.' They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, Fra...

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Bibliographic Details
Other Authors: Oswald, Margareta von (Editor), Tinius, Jonas (Editor)
Format: Book
Language:English
Published: Leuven : Leuven University Press, 2020.
Subjects:
Museum techniques.
Anthropology.
Anthropological museums and collections.
Postcolonialism.
Anthropological ethics.
Curatorship.
Table of Contents:
  • List of images
  • Acknowledgements
  • Introduction : across anthropology / Margareta von Oswald & Jonas Tinius
  • Museums and the savage sublime / Arjun Appadurai
  • Transforming the ethnographic : anthropological articulations in museum and heritage research / Sharon Macdonald
  • "Museums are investments in critical discomfort" / A conversation with Wayne Modest
  • Frontiers of the (non)humanly (un)imaginable : anthropological estrangement and the making of persona at the Musée du Quai Branly / Emmanuel Grimaud
  • "On decolonising anthropological museums : curators need to take 'indigenous' forms of knowledge more seriously" / A conversation with Anne-Christine Taylor
  • Troubling colonial epistemologies in Berlins Ethnologisches Museum : provenance research and the Humboldt Forum / Margareta von Oswald
  • "Against the mono-disciplinarity of ethnographic museums" / A conversation with Clementine Deliss
  • Resisting extraction politics : Afro-Belgian claims, womens activism, and the Royal Museum for Central Africa / Sarah Demart
  • "Finding means to cannibalise the anthropological museum" / A conversation with Toma Muteba Luntumbue
  • Animating collapse : reframing colonial film archives / Alexander Schellow & Anna Seiderer
  • "Translating the silence" / A conversation with le peuple qui manque
  • Art-anthropology interventions in the Italian post-colony : the scattered colonial body project / Arnd Schneider
  • "Dissonant agents and productive refusals" / A conversation with Natasha Ginwala
  • Porous membranes : hospitality, alterity, and anthropology in a Berlin district gallery / Jonas Tinius
  • "What happens in that space in-between and beyond this relation" / A conversation with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung
  • Material kin : "communities of implication" in post-colonial, post-Holocaust Polish ethnographic collections / Erica Lehrer
  • "Suggestions for a post-museum" / A conversation with Nanette Snoep
  • Representation of culture(s) : articulations of the de/post-colonial at the Haus Der Kulturen Der Welt In Berlin / Annette Bhagwati
  • "How do we come together in a world that isolates us?" / A conversation with Nora Sternfeld
  • The trans-anthropological, anachronism, and the contemporary / Roger Sansi
  • List of contributors
  • Visual constellations across the fields
  • Some lists to inspire the reader