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Author:   Margareta von Oswald ,  Jonas Tinius
Publisher:   Leuven University Press
Imprint:   Leuven University Press
Dimensions:   Width: 15.60cm , Height: 2.80cm , Length: 23.40cm
Weight:   0.740kg
ISBN:  

9789462702189

ISBN 10:   9462702187
Pages:   432
Publication Date:   18 June 2020
Audience:   College/higher education ,  Postgraduate, Research & Scholarly
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
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Table of Contents

List of images Acknowledgements Introduction: Across Anthropology Margareta von Oswald and 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 Berlin’s 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, Women’s 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 and 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

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"An assemblage of research articles, reflections, and conversations, Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial provides a unique and necessary contribution to recent conversations questioning the meaning, relevance, and legitimacy of anthropology as a discipline [...] Offering ongoing projects of ontological shifts and epistemic critiques, this book demonstrates the potential for decolonizing practices in the museum, while also acknowledging that representational work is not enough. [...] I would recommend this work to scholars, students, and practitioners, especially those dubious of the efficacy of anthropology and museums. In interrogating the validity of anthropology and museums, these contributors have deftly demonstrated the radical potentialities offered by these institutions through epistemological technologies and ethical apparatus, even as their epistemic existence is reconsidered. Sowparnika Balaswaminathan, Museum Anthropology, November 2021, https: //doi.org/10.1111/muan.12239 An extraordinarily rich and provocative collection of essays on the transformation of museums and exhibitions devoted to non-Western arts and cultures. Punctuated by interviews with path-breaking curators, the volume keeps us focused on contemporary practice-its real possibilities and constraints. The editors' guiding concept of ""trans-anthroplogy"" avoids both defensive celebration and rigid critique. It opens our eyes and ears to the relational transactions, alliances, and difficult dialogues that are animating former anthropology museums today. James Clifford, Author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the 21st Century By opening the debate up to a European perspective, with contributions related to the French, Belgium, Dutch and Italian contexts, this anthology offers a well-balanced set of statements, interviews and experiences that allow for different practices to resonate and establish common terrains of concern and enquiry. The editors have proposed a rich selection of points of view that neatly embody one of the key requests for a revision of the colonial past that its narrative be formulated through new forms of pluri-vocality, that ""trouble"", and thus avoid the smoothing effect of the singular institutional voice. En ouvrant ce débat a une perspective européenne, à travers des contributions liées aux contextes français, belge, néerlandais et italien, cette anthologie offre un ensemble équilibre de déclarations, d'entretiens et d'expériences, permettant a différentes pratiques d'entrer en résonnance et d'établir des terrains communs d'intérêt et d'enquete. Les directeurs de l' ouvrage ont proposé une riche sélection de points de vue qui incarnent bien l'une des demandes clés dans la révision du passé colonial: que le récit du colonialisme soit exprimé à travers de nouvelles formes chorales qui soient troublantes, évitant ainsi l'effet de lissage des voix institutionnelles singulières.Felicity Bodenstein, Critique d'art 55, https: //doi.org/10.4000/critiquedart.68093 I seldom came across a similarly well-reflected and convincing volume! It asks future-oriented questions across a coherent range of contributions and conversations. This original collection covers relevant exhibition and debates. It is suitable for MA programmes and PhD programmes in curatorial studies, anthropology, postcolonial studies, visual culture, material culture studies, and art. Thomas Fillitz, University of Vienna"

"An extraordinarily rich and provocative collection of essays on the transformation of museums and exhibitions devoted to non-Western arts and cultures. Punctuated by interviews with path-breaking curators, the volume keeps us focused on contemporary practice--its real possibilities and constraints. The editors' guiding concept of ""trans-anthroplogy"" avoids both defensive celebration and rigid critique. It opens our eyes and ears to the relational transactions, alliances, and difficult dialogues that are animating former anthropology museums today. James Clifford, Author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the 21st Century By opening the debate up to a European perspective, with contributions related to the French, Belgium, Dutch and Italian contexts, this anthology offers a well-balanced set of statements, interviews and experiences that allow for different practices to resonate and establish common terrains of concern and enquiry. The editors have proposed a rich selection of points of view that neatly embody one of the key requests for a revision of the colonial past that its narrative be formulated through new forms of pluri-vocality, that ""trouble"", and thus avoid the smoothing effect of the singular institutional voice. En ouvrant ce débat a une perspective européenne, à travers des contributions liées aux contextes français, belge, néerlandais et italien, cette anthologie offre un ensemble équilibre de déclarations, d'entretiens et d'expériences, permettant a différentes pratiques d'entrer en résonnance et d'établir des terrains communs d'intérêt et d'enquete. Les directeurs de l' ouvrage ont proposé une riche sélection de points de vue qui incarnent bien l'une des demandes clés dans la révision du passé colonial: que le récit du colonialisme soit exprimé à travers de nouvelles formes chorales qui soient « troublantes », évitant ainsi l'effet de lissage des voix institutionnelles singulières.Felicity Bodenstein, Critique d'art 55, https: //doi.org/10.4000/critiquedart.68093 I seldom came across a similarly well-reflected and convincing volume! It asks future-oriented questions across a coherent range of contributions and conversations. This original collection covers relevant exhibition and debates. It is suitable for MA programmes and PhD programmes in curatorial studies, anthropology, postcolonial studies, visual culture, material culture studies, and art. Thomas Fillitz, University of Vienna"

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Margareta von Oswald is an anthropologist and curator. She is a research fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She co-edited 'Across Anthropology. Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial' (2020, Leuven University Press). Jonas Tinius is a research fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin.

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