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How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthro- a margareta von oswald pologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, c r and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case o studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and s s through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary jonas tinius (eds) a exhibition-making. This collection considers where and how anthropology is troubled, n mobilised, and rendered meaningful. t h r Across Anthropology charts new ground by analysing the convergences of museums, o curatorial practice, and Europe’s reckoning with its colonial legacies. Situated amid p o resurgent debates on nationalism and identity politics, this book addresses scholars and l practitioners in fields spanning the arts, social sciences, humanities, and curatorial studies. o g across y Preface by Arjun Appadurai. Afterword by Roger Sansi. anthropology JONAS TINIUS is a research fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research v on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt- o Universität zu Berlin. n o MARGARETA VON OSWALD is a research fellow at the Centre for Anthropological s w Research on Museums and Heritage (CARMAH), Institute of European Ethnology, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. a l d troubling colonial legacies, a n “An extraordinarily rich and provocative collection of essays on the transformation of d museums and exhibitions devoted to non-Western arts and cultures. Punctuated by t museums, and the curatorial interviews with path-breaking curators, the volume keeps us focused on contemporary i n practice—its real possibilities and constraints. The editors’ guiding concept of ‘trans- i u anthroplogy’ avoids both defensive celebration and rigid critique. It opens our eyes and s ears to the relational transactions, alliances, and difficult dialogues that are animating ( e former anthropology museums today.” d s James Clifford, Author of Returns: Becoming Indigenous in the 21st Century ) AAccrroossss AAnntthhrrooppoollooggyy aarrttwwoorrkk..iinndddd AAllll PPaaggeess 1199//0055//22002200 1133::2288 Across Anthropology Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial Across Anthropology Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial Edited by Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius leuven university Press The publication of this work was supported by the Centre for Anthropological Research and the Alexander von Humboldt Foundation, the Open Access Publication Fund of Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, and the KU Leuven Fund for Fair Open Access. Published in 2020 by Leuven University Press / Presses Universitaires de Louvain / Universitaire Pers Leuven. Minderbroedersstraat 4, B-3000 Leuven (Belgium). Selection and editorial matter © Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, 2020 Individual chapters © The respective authors, 2020 This book is published under a Creative Commons CC BY 4.0 Licence. Further details about Creative Commons licences are available at http://creativecommons.org/licenses/ Attribution should include the following information: Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius, eds, Across Anthropology: Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial. Leuven, Leuven University Press. (CC BY 4.0) ISBN 978 94 6270 218 9 (Paperback) ISBN 978 94 6166 317 7 (ePDF) ISBN 978 94 6166 318 4 (ePUB) https://doi.org/10.11116/9789461663177 D/2020/1869/19 NUR: 761 Lay-out: Crius Group Cover design: Daniel Benneworth-Gray Table of contents List of images 9 Acknowledgements 15 Introduction: Across Anthropology 17 Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius Museums and the Savage Sublime 45 Arjun Appadurai Transforming the Ethnographic : Anthropological Articulations in Museum and Heritage Research 49 Sharon Macdonald “Museums are Investments in Critical Discomfort” 65 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 76 Emmanuel Grimaud “On Decolonising Anthropological Museums : Curators Need to Take ‘Indigenous’ Forms of Knowledge More Seriously” 97 A conversation with Anne-Christine Taylor Troubling Colonial Epistemologies in Berlin’s Ethnologisches Museum : Provenance Research and the Humboldt Forum 106 Margareta von Oswald “Against the Mono-Disciplinarity of Ethnographic Museums” 130 A conversation with Clémentine Deliss 5 6 ACROSS ANTHROPOLOGY Resisting Extraction Politics : Afro-Belgian Claims, Women’s Activism, and the Royal Museum for Central Africa 142 Sarah Demart “Finding Means to Cannibalise the Anthropological Museum” 174 A conversation with Toma Muteba Luntumbue Animating Collapse: Reframing Colonial Film Archives 186 Alexander Schellow and Anna Seiderer “Translating the Silence” 210 A conversation with le peuple qui manque Art-Anthropology Interventions in the Italian Post-Colony : The Scattered Colonial Body Project 222 Arnd Schneider “Dissonant Agents and Productive Refusals” 242 A conversation with Natasha Ginwala Porous Membranes : Hospitality, Alterity, and Anthropology in a Berlin District Gallery 254 Jonas Tinius “What happens in that space in-between and beyond this relation” 278 A conversation with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung Material Kin : “Communities of Implication” in Post-Colonial, Post-Holocaust Polish Ethnographic Collections 288 Erica Lehrer “Suggestions for a Post-Museum” 324 A conversation with Nanette Snoep Representation of Culture(s) : Articulations of the De/Post- Colonial at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in Berlin 336 Annette Bhagwati “How Do We Come Together in a World that Isolates Us?” 362 A conversation with Nora Sternfeld TAbLE Of COnTEnTs 7 The Trans-Anthropological, Anachronism, and the Contemporary 375 Roger Sansi List of contributors 383 Visual constellations across the fields 393 Some lists to inspire the reader 421 List of images Fig. 1.1 Ganesh Yourself Robot. Film by Emmanuel Grimaud, © Emmanuel Grimaud 76 Fig. 1.2 Uncanny Valley Graph. Cited in: Mori (2012 [1970]: 99) 79 Fig. 2.1 Boris Gliesmann working in the archive. Photograph by Marion Benoit, © Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz 106 Fig. 2.2 Buli chair, collected by Werner von Grawert, III C 14966, © Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz 108 Fig. 2.3 A scan of the inventory book on the page including III C 14966, © Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz 110 Fig. 2.4 Screenshot of the database entry for III C 14966, © Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz 110 Fig. 2.5 The entrance door to the archive. Photograph by Marion Benoit, © Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz 117 Fig. 2.6 The museum library. Photograph by Marion Benoit, © Ethnologisches Museum der Staatlichen Museen zu Berlin – Preußischer Kulturbesitz 117 Fig. 3.1 View into the Weltkulturen Labor, Frankfurt, with furni- ture designed by Mathis Esterhazy and various fish traps from the Weltkulturen Museum’s collection. Photograph by Wolfgang Günzel, 2011 130 Fig. 3.2 Weltkulturen Museum Storage Building, Frankfurt am Main. Photograph by Armin Linke, 2013 135 9
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