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  • Each Case Is Different

    Anthropological Provenance Research at the Museum der Kulturen Basel

    by Anna Schmid, Isabella Bozsa, Basil Bucher, Tabea Buri, Silvia Greber, Taloi Havini, Zainabu Jallo, Tevodai Mambai, George Paul Meiu0, Daniela Müller1, Aila Özvegyi2, David Rentsch3, Julia Singh4, Beatrice Voirol5, Beat Keusch6 ...
    Provenance research is so much more than a search for origin: It offers new perspectives on objects, collections, their histories, and the multifaceted relationships embedded within them. The Museum der Kulturen Basel is systematically examining its collection for coloniality and highlighting the central importance of collaborating with communities in the Global South. This work also reveals how ... Read more

    $34.99 USD

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    History of a Postcolonial Defeat

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    A major new history of how African nations, starting in the 1960s, sought to reclaim the art looted by Western colonial powersFor decades, African nations have fought for the return of countless works of art stolen during the colonial era and placed in Western museums. In Africa’s Struggle for Its Art, Bénédicte Savoy brings to light this largely unknown but deeply important history. One of the ... Read more

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  • Art, History, and Anachronic Interventions Since 1990

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  • Architecture, Power and National Identity

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    The first edition of Architecture, Power, and National Identity, published in 1992, has become a classic, winning the prestigious Spiro Kostof award for the best book in architecture and urbanism. Lawrence Vale fully has fully updated the book, which focuses on the relationship between the design of national capitals across the world and the formation of national identity in modernity. Tied to ... Read more

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  • Lifelines of Our Society

    A Global History of Infrastructure

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  • Culture and Value

    Tourism, Heritage, and Property

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    An "eminently readable" collection of essays exploring what happens when cultural heritage meets commerce ( Asian Ethnology).When heritage becomes a commodity, when culture is instrumental in driving tourism, and when individuals assert ownership over either, social, ideological, political, and economic motivations intertwine. Bestowing value on "culture" is itself a culturally rooted act, and the ... Read more

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  • The Long Shadow of German Colonialism

    Amnesia, Denialism and Revisionism

    by Henning Melber ...
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  • The Best We Share

    Nation, Culture and World-Making in the UNESCO World Heritage Arena

    by Christoph Brumann ...
    The UNESCO World Heritage Convention is one of the most widely ratified international treaties, and a place on the World Heritage List is a widely coveted mark of distinction. Building on ethnographic fieldwork at Committee sessions, interviews and documentary study, the book links the change in operations of the World Heritage Committee with structural nation-centeredness, vulnerable procedures ... Read more

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  • Knowing by Ear

    Listening to Voice Recordings with African Prisoners of War in German Camps (1915–1918)

    by Anette Hoffmann ...
    Series series Sign, Storage, Transmission
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    The Art of Assembly surveys theatre today to demonstrate its political potential in both form and content. Drawing on numerous examples from around the world in performance, visual art, and activist art, curator and author Florian Malzacher examines works that draw on the particular possibilities of theatre to navigate the space between representation and participation, at once playfully and with ... Read more

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