Prólogo PUBLICAR Año XXII N° XXXV// Diciembre 2023
Prólogo PUBLICAR Año XXII N° XXXV// Diciembre 2023
‘Collaborative Projects as Means to Transcend Western Epistemologies’
In the last three decades, museums and museological practices that are fundamentally based on Western knowledge systems have been strongly questioned by a collective that includes Indigenous Peoples, political activists, representatives of civil societ…
Elke Mader Obituary (1954–2021)
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Delgado Rosa, Frederico and Han F. Vermeulen (eds.): Ethnographers Before Mali- nowski. Pioneers of Anthropological Fieldwork, 1870–1922. EASA Book Series, 44
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Back to the Future of Humboldtian Museums
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
‘Indigenous Encyclopedias’: Displacements and the Repositioning of Logics, Voices and Narratives in the Relationship between Museums and Indigenous Groups (Brazil)
This article seeks to bring value to the claims of Indigenous Peoples in Brazil through ‘encyclopedias’, libraries or dictionaries, forms of expression that indicate respect for elders and ancestors. It is developed within the political context of a st…
A Donkey for the White Visitor: Practices of Collecting (with) Forced Migrants
At a time when public and political opinion towards forced migration is negatively inclined, many museums in Europe are applying a collaborative approach to address the stories of forced migrants (Boersma 2023; Sergi 2021). Through participatory projec…
‘We Don’t Want Another White Guy to Tell our Story!’
Collaboration with creator communities has become a new paradigm for ethnological museums. In this article, we discuss the possibilities and limits of cooperation with stakeholders from creator communities based on our experience of the last five years…
Strategic Narcissism: A Lived Experience of ‘Decolonising’, Inclusion of and ‘Collaborations’ with Indigenous Researchers
Based on my lived experience, the current decolonizing turn towards increasing the inclusion of and collaborations with indigenous researchers is characterized by strategic narcissism. Collaborations are shaped by wishful thinking, ignoring our lived e…
A Room for Reaching in at the Heart of the Museum: Rethinking Dialogical Curating
Museums often prioritize connecting with their audiences, but they may neglect the importance of providing internal spaces for staff to communicate openly. This article thinks through the first Prep Room project at the GRASSI Museum für Völkerkunde in …
Rewarding Citizen Participation in Exhibitions: A Questionnaire Surveying Museum Practices
The paper presents the results of a quantitative and qualitative study undertaken by a team of museum professionals and researchers based at the Museum of Civilizations of Europe and the Mediterranean (Mucem) in Marseilles, France, in 2020. The survey …
‚Um Grande Instrumento de Partilha‘
This article is a multi-voiced report on an innovative method of teaching an introductory course on Amazonian ethnology at the Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology of the Ludwig-Maximilians-Universität in Munich. This course foregrounds the vo…
Beek, Jan, Thomas Bierschenk, Annalena Kolloch, and Bernd Meyer (eds.): Policing Race, Ethnicity and Culture. Ethnographic Perspectives Across Europe
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Eckert, Julia M. (ed.): The Bureaucratic Production of Difference: Ethos and Ethics in Migration Administration
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Werthmann, Katja: City Life in Africa. Anthropological Insights
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Dippel, Anne und Martin Warnke: Tiefen der Täuschung: Computersimulation und Wirklichkeitserzeugung
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
Strange, Stuart Earle: Suspect Others: Spirit Mediums, Self-Knowledge, and Race in Multiethnic Suriname. Series: Anthropological Horizons
Zeitschrift für Ethnologie/Journal of Social and Cultural Anthropology
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Citizens with a Migration Background Involved in a Radical-Right Wing Party Restricting Immigration
The populist radical right-wing Swiss People’s Party (SVP / UDC) has been largely known for its xenophobic discourses and its political agenda restricting immigration through popular initiatives such as the vote against minarets (2009), the deportation…
The Law of the Outlaw
This article introduces the special issue through a review of Francophone and Anglo-Saxon legal anthropology traditions, before situating the law of the outlaw within these and outlining its potential contribution towards the development of a pragmatic…
The Law of the Outlaw
This article introduces the special issue through a review of Francophone and Anglo-Saxon legal anthropology traditions, before situating the law of the outlaw within these and outlining its potential contribution towards the development of a pragmatic…
Women’s Views on the Legal Order of “Thieves-in-law” in Postsoviet Georgia
As the power and influence of the “thieves-in-law” in Georgia weakened in an offensive against them that began in 2006, their parallel legal system lost some of its legitimacy in the face of the state legal system. This article, based on an ethnographi…
Not Bowing Down
In the United States, some prison gangs control not only inmates, but also what happens on the street. Since most gang members eventually get detained and incarcerated, prison gangs will victimize or kill any resistors in jail and prison. In this paper…
In the Shadow of the State
The National Union of Road Transport workers (NURTW) is the main transport organization in Nigeria and has replaced local governments in most garages of the country. The NURTW exercises its authority in Lagos garages through its own set of rules, quali…
Los Ñetos in Search of Transformation
Belonging to the gang Los Ñetas, it is in part observing a certain number of rules which are transcribed in the Liderato, the book of the Ñetas. These rules are accompanied of trials procedure, the mesas disciplinarias, and of sanctions for those trans…