Creating Authenticity
Authentication Processes in Ethnographic Museums
Edited by Alexander Geurds & Laura Van Broekhoven | 2013
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‘Authenticity’ and authentication is at the heart of museums’ concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum…
Engendering objects
Dynamics of Barkcloth and Gender among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea
Anna-Karina Hermkens | 2013
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Engendering objects explores social and cultural dynamics among Maisin people in Collingwood Bay (Papua New Guinea) through the lens of material culture. Focusing upon the visually stimulating decorated barkcloths that are used as male and…
From primitives to primates
A history of ethnographic and primatological analogies in the study of prehistory
David Van Reybrouck | 2012
Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography and primatology has deeply influenced our visions about the past from the 19th…
Amotopoan Trails
A recent archaeology of Trio movements
Jimmy Mans | 2012
In this book the concept of mobility is explored for the archaeology of the Amazonian and Caribbean region. As a result of technological and methodological progress in archaeology, mobility has become increasingly visible on the…
Collecting Kamoro
Objects, encounters and representation on the southwest coast of Papua
Karen Jacobs | 2012
The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between…
Analysing allerzielen alom
Material culture in an emerging rite
William R. Arfman | 2011
Since 2005 Dutch artists Ida van der Lee’s Allerzielen Alom (or All Souls’ All around) project, as well as its various offshoots, have flowered throughout the Netherlands. In doing so they have brought a diverse…
Animism of the Nilotics and Discourses of Islamic Fundamentalism in Sudan
Kuel Maluil Jok | 2011
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Animism as a religion and a culture of the Nilotic peoples of the Upper River Nile in modern ‘Southern Sudan’. It gives an account of how the Animistic…
Creating Authenticity
Authentication Processes in Ethnographic Museums
Edited by Alexander Geurds & Laura Van Broekhoven | 2013
Now 50% off!
‘Authenticity’ and authentication is at the heart of museums’ concerns in displays, objects, and interaction with visitors. These notions have formed a central element in early thought on culture and collecting. Nineteenth century-explorers, commissioned museum…
Engendering objects
Dynamics of Barkcloth and Gender among the Maisin of Papua New Guinea
Anna-Karina Hermkens | 2013
Now 50% off!
Engendering objects explores social and cultural dynamics among Maisin people in Collingwood Bay (Papua New Guinea) through the lens of material culture. Focusing upon the visually stimulating decorated barkcloths that are used as male and…
From primitives to primates
A history of ethnographic and primatological analogies in the study of prehistory
David Van Reybrouck | 2012
Where do our images about early hominids come from? In this fascinating in-depth study, David Van Reybrouck demonstrates how input from ethnography and primatology has deeply influenced our visions about the past from the 19th…
Amotopoan Trails
A recent archaeology of Trio movements
Jimmy Mans | 2012
In this book the concept of mobility is explored for the archaeology of the Amazonian and Caribbean region. As a result of technological and methodological progress in archaeology, mobility has become increasingly visible on the…
Collecting Kamoro
Objects, encounters and representation on the southwest coast of Papua
Karen Jacobs | 2012
The story of ethnographic collecting is one of cross-cultural encounters. This book focuses on collecting encounters in the Kamoro region of Papua from the earliest collections made in 1828 until 2011. Exploring the links between…
Analysing allerzielen alom
Material culture in an emerging rite
William R. Arfman | 2011
Since 2005 Dutch artists Ida van der Lee’s Allerzielen Alom (or All Souls’ All around) project, as well as its various offshoots, have flowered throughout the Netherlands. In doing so they have brought a diverse…
Animism of the Nilotics and Discourses of Islamic Fundamentalism in Sudan
Kuel Maluil Jok | 2011
This book provides a comprehensive analysis of Animism as a religion and a culture of the Nilotic peoples of the Upper River Nile in modern ‘Southern Sudan’. It gives an account of how the Animistic…
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