Each Case Is Different (eBook)

Anthropological Provenance Research at the Museum der Kulturen Basel

Anna Schmid (Herausgeber)

Isabella Bozsa, Basil Bucher, Tabea Buri, Silvia Greber, Taloi Havini, Zainabu Jallo, Tevodai Mambai, George Paul Meiu, Daniela Müller, Aila Özvegyi, David Rentsch, Anna Schmid, Julia Singh, Beatrice Voirol (Text von)

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2025
364 Seiten
Hatje Cantz Verlag GmbH
978-3-7757-6254-0 (ISBN)

Infos

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 complex and demanding ethnological provenance research is. This volume "raises groundbreaking questions that will shape ethnological provenance research in the decades to come" (George Meiu).
The Museum der Kulturen Basel is one of the five state museums of the Canton of Basel-Stadt and, with a collection of over 340,000 objects from all regions of the world, it is Switzerland's largest ethnological museum. Managing this collection –acquiring, preserving, securing, exhibiting, and mediating the collection – is the core mission around which the museum's activities are centered. In recent years, provenance research and collaboration with so-called "source communities" have played a prominent role.

Inhalt

Cover
Half Title Page
Title Page
Contents
Introduction
Basics and Methodology
Travelling and Collecting
Acquisitions and Appropriation Practices
Trading Practices and Market Logics
Intermediaries and Counterparts
Communities of Implication
Contexts of Violence
Voids and Gaps
Current Relevance
Octopudian
Epilogue
Acknowledgements
Appendices
Copyright Page

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.11.2025
• Mitarbeit: Designer: Beat Keusch
• Verlagsort: Berlin
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Kunst / Musik / Theater ► Kunstgeschichte / Kunststile
• Themenwelt: Sozialwissenschaften ► Politik / Verwaltung
• Schlagworte: Basel • Ethnologie • Ethnologisches Museum • Museum der Kulturen Basel • Provenienz • Provenienzforschung
• ISBN-10: 3-7757-6254-X / 377576254X
• ISBN-13: 978-3-7757-6254-0 / 9783775762540