Material Culture in Transit

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

Cecile Bruendlmayer

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