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Provenance Research in the Mode of Digital Benin
The self-conception of provenance research as practised by Digital Benin is shaped by a deliberately circumscribed institutional framework. The project focuses almost exclusively on objects held in public museum collections, while private...
Provenance Research in the Mode of Digital Benin
The self-conception of provenance research as practised by Digital Benin is shaped by a deliberately circumscribed institutional framework. The project focuses almost exclusively on objects held in public museum collections, while private...
The “frozen Museum" & its "Postcolonial myths"
Before my mother first took me - at the age of ten - to the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology, I had already encountered another museum whose significance has largely faded...
The “frozen Museum" & its "Postcolonial myths"
Before my mother first took me - at the age of ten - to the Hamburg Museum of Ethnology, I had already encountered another museum whose significance has largely faded...
History, Restitution, and the Politics of Moral...
Egon Friedell once formulated a striking thought concerning the inherent incompleteness of historical scholarship. When asked why historical research can never yield stable or definitive results, he did not point...
History, Restitution, and the Politics of Moral...
Egon Friedell once formulated a striking thought concerning the inherent incompleteness of historical scholarship. When asked why historical research can never yield stable or definitive results, he did not point...
Didier Ahadsi Interview
Didier Amevi Ahadsi is a self-taught artist from Togo, whose inspiration ranges from voodoo religious practices to a series of personal narratives."Didier Ahadsi comes from the Ewe people, an ethnic...
Didier Ahadsi Interview
Didier Amevi Ahadsi is a self-taught artist from Togo, whose inspiration ranges from voodoo religious practices to a series of personal narratives."Didier Ahadsi comes from the Ewe people, an ethnic...
Wolfgang Jaenicke and Bernhard Lassahn Interview
Wolfgang Jaenicke has been dealing in art objects from Africa for over 25 years. He tells how, as a boy, he rummaged in Harry's Harbour Bazaar and was fascinated by...
Wolfgang Jaenicke and Bernhard Lassahn Interview
Wolfgang Jaenicke has been dealing in art objects from Africa for over 25 years. He tells how, as a boy, he rummaged in Harry's Harbour Bazaar and was fascinated by...
In the footsteps of Gustav Nachtigal in the Pan...
Pana is a small town not far from the provincial city of Dapaong in northern Togo, to the border of Burkina Faso and Ghana. On May 6th we visited their small, barely...
In the footsteps of Gustav Nachtigal in the Pan...
Pana is a small town not far from the provincial city of Dapaong in northern Togo, to the border of Burkina Faso and Ghana. On May 6th we visited their small, barely...