Material Culture in Transit

Theory and Practice

Buch | Softcover

204 Seiten

2024
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-25257-5 (ISBN)

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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. The rich collection of essays critically addresses the multivalent ways in which mobility reshapes the characteristics of artefacts, specifically under prevailing issues of representation and colonial liabilities. The volume attests to material culture as central to understanding the repercussions of problematic histories and proposes novel ways to address them. It offers valuable reading for scholars of anthropology, museum studies, history and others with an interest in material culture.

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.

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

Erscheinungsdatum	16.03.2023
Reihe/Serie	Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums
Zusatzinfo	2 Line drawings, black and white; 26 Halftones, black and white; 28 Illustrations, black and white
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	403 g
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
Themenwelt	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-25257-X / 103225257X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-25257-5 / 9781032252575
Zustand	Neuware