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‘Shiva Linga kosh: Visual Research on the Provenance and Meaning of a Sacred Artefact from Nepal’ explores the origin, provenance and cultural significance of a copper-gilt, four-faced chaturmukha Shiva Linga kosh (cover) housed at the Museum für Asiat…

This article aims to formulate and frame the digital strategy of the Collaborative Museum conceptually and to outline the main lines of its immediate implementation plan from a reflexive perspective. The digital strategy is presented as a practice, ‘a …

A community museum is currently being established at the Niwan Nha Cultural Centre in the Guatemalan village of Yalambojoch. Through a collaboration with the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, copies of stone sculptures collected for the museum by Eduard Se…

Based on the Uyghur collection from the late 19th century that is housed within the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin, the project asks what objects, both those held at the museum and contemporary objects, mean for Uyghurs living in the diaspora today. The …

Ethnographic and non-European art collections currently form a field that is particularly prominent in the public eye, since the methods of curating, exhibiting and working with cultural belongings have undergone significant changes over the past twent…

What traces of colonial and Nazi violence can be found in the Humboldt Forum exhibitions? How relevant is this heritage for democracy today? In the collaborative project ‘Intertwined Memories,’ people from Berlin’s diverse urban society, international …

This article describes a collaborative educational and artistic project developed by the Instituto Colombiano de Anthropología e Historia (ICANH) and the Ethnologisches Museum Berlin. Protective stone figures from the Parque Arqueológico de San Agustín…

A collection of late 19th-century mats originating from the Lamu Archipelago in northern Kenya – globally unique, as they bear interwoven poems – is today kept in the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin. The project ‘Talking Mats: Interwoven Histories – Co…

This article examines a four-year collaboration between Peruvian music archaeologist Gonzalo Rodríguez and German ethnomusicologist Maurice Mengel at the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin, exploring how European museums can foster collaborative research …

This reflective report provides insights into a long-term collaborative research project in the field of visual anthropology. It deals with questions of collaboration in visual anthropological research, ethnographic film-making, and the archiving and u…

Africa Spectrum, Ahead of Print. In British academia, Africa occupies a paradoxical position, highly visible as a site of humanitarian concern and policy experimentation, yet structurally marginalised in shaping research agendas and defining scholarly …

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