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Curators, Collections and Contexts: Anthropology at The Field Museum
Stephen Nash
«The Field Museum’s mission is to the earth and it’s people. Since 1890, when Frederick Ward Putnam began directing anthropological collecting expeditions for the 1893 World’s Columbian Exposition, the story of anthropology at the Field Museum has been deeply intertwined with the history of Chicago. In addition to this deep local association, the lattice of Field Museum research, collections, and anthropological scholarship extends across space and through time to the far comers of the planet.»
The Objects of Anthropology: All the World’s a Fair: Visions of Empire at American International Expositions, 1876-1916 . Robert W. Rydell. ; Objects and Others: Essays on Museums and Material Culture . George W. Stocking, Jr
Susan S Bean
«Collecting and exhibiting were prominent anthropological pursuits in the 19th century. Museums and world’s fairs were anthropology’s primary institutional homes. By the 1930s ideology and behavior had superseded artifacts as the subjects for ethnological investigation, while universities had eclipsed museums as institutional settings. Museum anthropology and material culture studies have remained peripheral during the past half century despite periodic declarations of support (for example, Collier and Tschopik 1954; Sturtevant 1969; Lurie 1981). Nevertheless, the role of objects in ethnology has been undergoing a quiet evolution that appears to be gaining momentum and coherence. Of special importance are the volumes reviewed here and in Volume 13 of American Ethnologist (Price 1986; Dominguez 1986), which examine the significance of artifacts for anthropology.»
Vermittlung an einem ethnologischen Museum
Stefanie Ponndorf
«Der Grund für diese Masterarbeit ist, dass mir auffiel, wie unsicher ich im Sprechen über Objekte oder Kunst aus nicht-europäischen Kulturen bin. Diese Unsicherheit kommt daher, dass ich mir all der Kontexte, die bei der Vermittlung von ethnologischen Objekten eine Rolle spielen, nicht bewusst bin. Da diese Lücke weder durch die schulische noch die universitäre Bildung geschlossen wurde, versuche ich nun, sie mithilfe dieser Masterarbeit zu verkleinern. In der folgenden Untersuchung wird eine Diskrepanz zwischen der (mir vertrauten) Vermittlung von (Kunst-)Objekten und den Konzepten der Vermittlung am ethnologischen Museum, welche primär darauf abzielt, Kulturen und Kontexte zu vermitteln, deutlich. Dieses Diskrepanz zwischen Objekt- /Kunstvermittlung und ethnologischer Vermittlung wird innerhalb dieser Arbeit ausgelotet und an verschiedenen Punkten untersucht.»
Revisiting the Relationship between Indigenous Agency and Museum Inventories: An Object-Centered Study of the Formation of Lübeck’s Jacobsen Collection (1884/1885) from the Northwest Coast of America
Angela Hess
«In 2017, the Chugach Alaska Corporation, an organization representing the political interests of the Alaska Indigenous Peoples within the Chugach region, requested the return of a group of nine objects from a funerary context, comprising wooden masks and a baby basket, that had been in the possession of The Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation (Stiftung Preußischer Kulturbesitz, SPK), to its creator communities. As part of the SPK, the Berlin Ethnological Museum had been curating the objects since the late 1880s and upon receiving the request, engaged in provenance research that soon revealed that the objects in question had been looted by Norwegian captain, explorer and amateur ethnologist Johan Adrian Jacobsen (1852 – 1947) between 1882 and 1884.»
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Things that time forgot – Native American objects in Danish Museums Problems and possibilities
Laura Ahlqvist, Mathias Bjørnevad, Felix Riede & Magdalena Naum
«We present a hitherto unresearched part of a shared Danish and American cultural heritage: Native American objects in Danish regional museum collections. Thus far, we have identified more than 200 Native American artefacts in 27 local museums, largely a result of Danes abroad privately collecting in the late 1800s and 1950s–70s. The majority of these artefacts, many of which are prehistoric in age, have never been displayed and have lingered in storage since they were accessioned, understudied and often unrecognised for what they are.»
The Entangled Gaze: Indigenous and European Views of Each Other
Gerald McMaster, Julia Lum and Kaitlin McCormick
«The meeting, or rather fictional wedding, between Kent Monkman (a Canadian artist of Cree and Irish descent) and French fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier had all the trappings of a great story. The setting for this 2017 performance was the Montreal Museum of Fine Arts (MMFA), where Gaultier’s Love Is Love exhibition (May 22–October 22, 2017) was on display.»
From North America
Christian F. Feest
«The history of the collecting and appreciation of objects of North American Indian origin spans the entire period of Indian-White relations from first contact to the present day It is inextricably connected with other aspects of interethnic relations, with incredulous speechlessness about a new world, and with old prejudices about faraway and foreign folks. »
Franz Boas and Exhibits – On the Limitations of the Museum Method of Anthropology
Ira Jacknis
«Franz Boas is remembered as the founder of professional anthropology in this country, and for more than sixty years, the professional anthropology he did so much to shape has found its primary institutional locus in a particular setting: the university department. But Boas himself entered anthropology in the midst of what is often called its «museum age»-1880-1920″.»
Ethnographic Film Practices in Silent German Cinema
Wolfgang Fuhrmann
«At the conference of the German Anthropological Society in Hamburg in August 1928, the director of the Leipzig Museum for Ethnology, Fritz Krause, called for the establishment of an ethnological and anthropological film archive.»
Stories of reconciliation enacted in the everyday lives of Sámi tourism entrepreneurs
Britt Kramvig & Anniken Førde
«Reconciliation has gained political interest in Norway, where a commission was established in 2018 to investigate the injustices committed in the past towards the Sámi and Kven. In this article, we argue that reconciliation can also be found in the small stories and events enacted in everyday life. Our analyses are based on a collaboration with a Sámi reindeer herding family who, through objects, food and tales, invite visitors to get “A taste of Sápmi”. Through storytelling events, they bring the colonial past into the present.»
Johan Adrian Jacobsen – Impresario und sammler
Eva König
«Jacobsen, am 9. Oktober 1853 auf der kleinen Insel Risö in Norwegen geboren, wollte die Welt sehen und war Zeit seines Lebens Abenteurer und Unternehmer. Sein Nachlass,den er 1933 der Deutsch-Nordischen-Gesellschaft Hamburg überließ und der sich heute im Museum für Völkerkunde befindet, enthält ein umfangreiches fotografisches Konvolut. »
Indigenous North Americans and Archaeology
George Nicholas, Dorothy Lippert and Stephen Loring
«Native Americans’ relationship with the discipline of archaeology has been shaped by centuries of historical circumstances, political engagement, and changing research agendas, in connection with Indigenous efforts to maintain or regain control over their affairs. At different times, archaeologists were seen (and often acted) as agents of colonialism or grave robbers, but also as allies or even employees of tribes. With the increasing number of Native American archaeologists, the terms “archaeologist” and “Indigenous” are no longer mutually exclusive.»
Frans Boas’ Bold Vision for New York City
Alan McGowan, The New School
«Franz Boas, the German émigré who became known as the “Father of American Anthropology” for his invention of the four-field approach to anthropology, was also heavily involved in other causes. He is perhaps best known for his data-driven attack on the notion of racial superiority, in which he was involved from the beginning of his career.»
Das Humboldt-Forum
Friedrich von Bose
«In ihrer 2011 vorgelegten Chronologie der Konzeptentwicklung zur Neupräsentati- on des Ethnologischen Museums im Humboldt-Forum 1999−2012 beschreibt die Direktorin des Berliner Ethnologischen Museums, Viola König, das Vorhaben des Humboldt-Forums als ein sich über mehrere Generationen hinziehendes Projekt, das sich von »einer kleinen Konzeptgruppe (…) in eine große Maschine gewandelt [hat], in der viele große und kleine Räder ineinander greifen und miteinander rollen hin auf das große Ziel der Eröffnung in einem nur geschätzten, heute unbekannten Jahr«.»
Concept for the Presentation of the Non-European Collections in the Humboldt – Forum
«The Humboldt-Forum, one of the most ambitious cultural building projects in Germany, will contri- bute to the redesign of urban development in the heart of the Spree island, and foster the “dialo- gue between art and scholarship” by means of its cultural program, which is also oriented towards the future.»
A Troubled Legacy. Making and Unmaking Race in the Museum
Tracy L. Teslow, University of Cincinnati
«This essay explores how exhibitions in museums of natural history, American history, art and science have constructed and critiqued racial ideol- ogy and its legacies since the nineteenth century. Focused primarily on muse- ums in the United States, the essay analyzes changing conceptions of race and identity, trends in museum practice, and how museums large and small have succeeded and failed in grappling with race, ethnicity, and their own histories as cultural institutions. Selective rather than comprehensive, the article explores these themes by examining notable exhibitions in each type of museum.»
Colonialism, coloniality and opportunities for necessary engagement, critique and reflection A comment on the current debate around the Humboldt Forum in Berlin
Martin Porr, The University of Western Australia
«After a long period of relative obliviousness, an extensive public debate has recently erupted in Germany about the significance and role of ethnographic museums and, more broadly, the colonial dimensions of Germany’s past and present.»
„Koloniale Objekte“ im Humboldt-Forum und im Musée du Quai Branly – eine interdisziplinäre Debatte
Sophia Nätscher, Johann Wolfgang Goethe-Universität
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TRANSFORMATIONS OF A MASK: CONFIDENTIAL INTELLIGENCE FROM THE LIFEWAY OF THINGS
Christian F. Feest, Frankfurt am Main
«The story of a Nootka mask, traced from its first documented appearance in 1881 through an undistinguished museum career to stardom on the Native American art market in 1997, reveals some of the characteristics of the social environments, which have contributed to the mask’s transformation: the worlds of museums, dealers, collectors, and auction houses.»
Decolonizing Research, Cosmo-optimistic Collaboration?
Margareta von Oswald and Verena Rodatus
«In Germany, the new cultural center Humboldt Forum (to open in 2019) has become a major site of debate. It will include the contested collections of both the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art, which contributed to the negotiation of the role of colonial legacies and their reverberances on contemporary Germany.»
DAS UNBEHAGEN IM MUSEUM
«Diese Publikation ist die dritte der von schnittpunkt herausgegebe- nen Schriftenreihe »ausstellungstheorie & praxis«. Ausgehend von theoretisch fundierten Ausstellungs- und Museumsanalysen, geht es in dieser Serie von Sammelbänden darum, aktuelle Praktiken des Ausstellens zu reflektieren und experimentelle Ausstellungsfor- men zu analysieren.»