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,…



Gender stereotypes in archaeology

A short reflection in image and text

Edited by Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Bisserka Gaydarska & Uroš Matić | 2021

Were men the only hunters and producers of tools, art and innovation in prehistory? Were women the only gatherers, home-bound breeders and caregivers? Are all prehistoric female depictions mother goddesses? And do women and men…



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…



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,…



Gender stereotypes in archaeology

A short reflection in image and text

Edited by Laura Coltofean-Arizancu, Bisserka Gaydarska & Uroš Matić | 2021

Were men the only hunters and producers of tools, art and innovation in prehistory? Were women the only gatherers, home-bound breeders and caregivers? Are all prehistoric female depictions mother goddesses? And do women and men…



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…






© 2024 Sidestone Press      KvK nr. 28114891           Privacy policy     Sidestone Newsletter     Terms and Conditions (Dutch)