Collections as Relations

Introduction: Collections as Relations (Hansjoerg Dilger, Barbara Goebel, Lars-Christian Koch, Stephanie Schuetze and Alexis von Poser)

PART I: Identities and (Re-)Orientations of Belonging

1. Reorientating Provenance: Identifying Te Arawa Maori Works Cross-institutionally as
a Decolonising Approach to Collections Research (Elizabeth Cory-Pearce)

2. Shared Soundscapes: Everyday Archiving and its Potentials for the De-mocratization of Anthropological Collections (Ingrid Kummels and Gisela Canepa Koch)

3. "No One Had Ever Asked me to Tell the History of White People", Translation and Enactment in an Artistic Collection on the Colonial Encounter (Thiago Oliveira da Costa and Andrea Scholz)

4. Materialising Relations? On Objects and Orientations in and out of the Museum (Magdalena Buchczyk)

PART II: Cultural Heritage and Property Disputes

5. Collections between History, Law and Justice: Reflections on the Debate about Restitution, Colonial Provenance, and Ownership (Larissa Foerster)

6. Colonial Cultural Heritage as Disputed Heritage? The Case of Cameroon and Germany (Richard Tsogang Fossi)

7. The Collection of the Ayoreode in the BASA Museum as Glocal Space (Carla Jaimes Betancourt, Karoline Noack and Naomi Rattunde)

8. Towards Democratising the Production of Knowledge: Collaboratively Researching Sensitive Collections from Namibia (Julia Binter)

PART III: Epistemic Cultures and Knowledge Infrastructures

9. The Afterlives of Gold Artefacts from Southeast Asia (Mai Lin Tjoa-Bonatz)

10. Challenging the Jacobsen Collections from the American Northwest Coast and Alaska. A Long
Duree of Multilateral Engagement and Complex Relationships 1881-2021 (Viola Koenig)

11. Vegetal Entanglements across Collections: Flowers and Medicinal Herbs in Chinese Art and Material Culture (Juliane Noth)

12. From Index Cards to Digital Catalogues: Incomplete Object Documentation as Reflection Space (Quoc-Tan Tran)

Afterword (Sharon Macdonald)