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  • Provenance research and the Continent behind the wall

    Provenance research and the Continent behind th...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    When I enter an ethnological museum, I expect something simple: stories about objects. Masks, figures, vessels—items that have traveled far before ending up in climate-controlled cases. I want to know...

    Provenance research and the Continent behind th...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    When I enter an ethnological museum, I expect something simple: stories about objects. Masks, figures, vessels—items that have traveled far before ending up in climate-controlled cases. I want to know...

  • What I saw - what I partially filmed back then while walking through our neighborhood.

    What I saw - what I partially filmed back then ...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    In Lomé, just outside our front door, I witnessed something I will never entirely forget. A Voodoo session. A “cleansing ritual.” A small boy, perhaps five years old. His body...

    What I saw - what I partially filmed back then ...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    In Lomé, just outside our front door, I witnessed something I will never entirely forget. A Voodoo session. A “cleansing ritual.” A small boy, perhaps five years old. His body...

  • Pictures of footballers can save someone in the most desperate of situations.

    Pictures of footballers can save someone in the...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    German version see below We were driving our battered Land Cruiser down a dusty, treacherous country road when rebels appeared. Kalashnikovs in hand, nailed planks blocking our tires. One false...

    Pictures of footballers can save someone in the...

    Wolfgang Jaenicke

    German version see below We were driving our battered Land Cruiser down a dusty, treacherous country road when rebels appeared. Kalashnikovs in hand, nailed planks blocking our tires. One false...

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