Moving Matter: Worlds of 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
Cécile Bründlmayer
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 0f Ethnology in Imperial Germany
Carl Deussen
7 Discourse on Objectification and Personification: Modern Forms of Material Cultural Identity in the Tuareg 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
Biography
Zainabu Jallo is a Post-Doctoral Researcher and lecturer in Anthropology at the Universities of Basel and Bern, Switzerland. Her PhD in Anthropology is from the Institute for Social Anthropology, University of Bern. she is also a Visiting Researcher at the Department of Anthropology at USP - Universidade de São Paulo, Brazil. Jallo is one of the Principal Investigators of the" Sacral Architecture Africa" Project. She is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts England and a member of the UNESCO Coalition of Artists for the General History of Africa. Her scholarly interests include museum anthropology, diaspora studies, iconic criticism, and material culture.
"Material Culture in Transit offers a provocative reflection on the relationship between mobility and materiality, things and their social and historical trajectories. Starting with recent controversial public debates on museum inventories—salient questions on provenance and restitution—the book challenges the relative insularity of some of these debates. A key contribution of this essay collection, as I see it, is that it situates the circulation of museum objects—now at the center of so-called “provenance research”—within broader forms of material culture circulation. It explores what emerges along the paths of circulating things." - George Paul Meiu, University of Basel
