Silver of the Possessed
Jewellery in the Egyptian zār
Sigrid M. van Roode | 2024
In the 19th century an African possession cult called zār arrived in Egypt and became hugely popular. Jewellery formed an integral part of this cult, and silver pendants with images of spirits started to appear…
Death and Display
Kuba funerary art from the Congo River Basin
Raymond Corbey | 2024
During funerals of nobles in the Kuba kingdom (Democratic Republic of Congo), visitors used to theatrically offer so-called bongotols to the deceased and the mourning family. These highly appreciated valuables were either positioned under the…
Photo-Museology
The presence of absence and the absence of presence
Mark Adams and Nicholas Thomas | 2023
Ethnographic museums, now often rebranded as collections of ‘world cultures’, appear permanently problematic, even as their contexts and the orientation of their activities change. Across Europe and elsewhere, curators and other museum staff are committed…
Ikat from Timor and its outer Islands
Insular and Interwoven
Peter ten Hoopen | 2022
This is the first study to focus on ikat of the Timor region from a technical perspective, including microscopy and design analysis of asymmetry, an understudied subject. Paradoxically this technical perspective highlights the human factor.…
Douze jours à Nuku Hiva
Rencontres et révolte russe dans le Pacifique Sud
Elena Govor (edited by Marie-Noelle Ottino-Garanger) | 2021
La première expédition russe autour du monde, à l’aube du dix-neuvième siècle, fit suite à celles de Bougainville, Cook et La Pérouse. Menée par le commandant balte-allemand Adam von Krusenstern, elle était, à elle seule,…
Pieces of a Nation
South Sudanese Heritage and Museum Collections
Edited by Zoe Cormack & Cherry Leonardi | 2021
South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as…
Museum, Magic, Memory
Curating Paul Denys Montague
Julie Adams | 2021
In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his…
Silver of the Possessed
Jewellery in the Egyptian zār
Sigrid M. van Roode | 2024
In the 19th century an African possession cult called zār arrived in Egypt and became hugely popular. Jewellery formed an integral part of this cult, and silver pendants with images of spirits started to appear…
Death and Display
Kuba funerary art from the Congo River Basin
Raymond Corbey | 2024
During funerals of nobles in the Kuba kingdom (Democratic Republic of Congo), visitors used to theatrically offer so-called bongotols to the deceased and the mourning family. These highly appreciated valuables were either positioned under the…
Photo-Museology
The presence of absence and the absence of presence
Mark Adams and Nicholas Thomas | 2023
Ethnographic museums, now often rebranded as collections of ‘world cultures’, appear permanently problematic, even as their contexts and the orientation of their activities change. Across Europe and elsewhere, curators and other museum staff are committed…
Ikat from Timor and its outer Islands
Insular and Interwoven
Peter ten Hoopen | 2022
This is the first study to focus on ikat of the Timor region from a technical perspective, including microscopy and design analysis of asymmetry, an understudied subject. Paradoxically this technical perspective highlights the human factor.…
Douze jours à Nuku Hiva
Rencontres et révolte russe dans le Pacifique Sud
Elena Govor (edited by Marie-Noelle Ottino-Garanger) | 2021
La première expédition russe autour du monde, à l’aube du dix-neuvième siècle, fit suite à celles de Bougainville, Cook et La Pérouse. Menée par le commandant balte-allemand Adam von Krusenstern, elle était, à elle seule,…
Pieces of a Nation
South Sudanese Heritage and Museum Collections
Edited by Zoe Cormack & Cherry Leonardi | 2021
South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as…
Museum, Magic, Memory
Curating Paul Denys Montague
Julie Adams | 2021
In 2012, a chance encounter between a curator and a century-old expedition journal occurred in the archives of a Cambridge museum. The journal was written by a young anthropologist, Paul Denys Montague, and recorded his…
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