Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe: A New Field for Museum Studies

Published by transcript Verlag 2018

Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe

A New Field for Museum Studies

Edited by: Thomas Laely , Marc Meyer and Raphael Schwere

Volume 33 in the series Edition Museum

https://doi.org/10.1515/9783839443811

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About this book

At a time of major transformations in the conditions and self-conceptions of cultural history and ethnological museums worldwide, it has become increasingly important for these museums to engage in cooperative projects.
This book brings together insights and analyses of a wide variety of approaches to museum cooperation from different expert perspectives. Featuring a variety of African and European points of view and providing detailed empirical evidence, it establishes a new field of museological study and provides some suggestions for future museum practice.

Author / Editor information

Thomas Laely holds a PhD in Social Anthropology and specialised in African and Museum Studies. He is the Deputy Head of the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Marc Meyer is a social and cultural anthropologist, currently working as project coordinator and assistant curator at the Ethnographic Museum at the University of Zurich, Switzerland.
Raphael Schwere is a social and cultural anthropologist working on human-animal relations, material culture of disability and museums in the Horn of Africa and East Africa. He is a PhD student and lecturer at the University of Zurich, Switzerland, where he works at the Ethnographic Museum.

Reviews

»As such collaborative projects become more common in museum practice, this volume will provide an important resource for global professionals and scholars, as well as provoke discussion on how to address issues of accessibility, resource allocation, heritage politics, knowledge exchange, and the nature of collaboration.«
Kristin Otto, Museum Anthropology Review, 13/1 (2019)
»Eine kompakte und hervorragende Zusammenfassung der historischen sowie aktuellen Kapitalismuskritik von links und rechts.«
Gerhard Neumeier, Zeitschrift für Geschichtswissenschaft, 3 (2019)

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Frontmatter Publicly Available Download PDF	i
Contents Publicly Available Download PDF	v
List of Figures Publicly Available Download PDF	viii
Acknowledgments Thomas Laely, Marc Meyer and Raphael Schwere Publicly Available Download PDF	xi
Preface Mareile Flitsch Publicly Available Download PDF	xiii
Heterodoxy and the Internationalisation and Regionalisation of Museums and Museology Anthony Shelton Publicly Available Download PDF	xv
Building a Critical Museology in Africa Ciraj Rassool Publicly Available Download PDF	xxi
Introduction
Introduction: Rethinking Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe Do we need a new paradigm? Thomas Laely, Marc Meyer and Raphael Schwere Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	3
PART I. Mapping the field – the history and context of Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe
2. Connected by History, Divided by Reality. Eliminating Suspicion and Promoting Cooperation between African and European Museums George Okello Abungu Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	25
3. Cooperation between European and African Museums: A Paradigm for Démuséalisation? Germain Loumpet Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	43
PART II. Local communities and international networks – relations of partnership?
4. Shifting Knowledge Boundaries in Museums. Museum Objects, Local Communities and Curatorial Shifts in African Museums Jesmael Mataga Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	57
5. Who Shapes the Museum? Exploring the Impact of International Networks on Contemporary East African Museums Rosalie Hans Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	69
6. The Road to Reconciliation. Museum Practice, Community Memorials and Collaborations in Uganda Nelson Adebo Abiti Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	83
PART III. Accessibility of collections from Africa
7. The Junod Collection. A new Generation of Cooperation between Europe and Africa Cynthia Kros and Anneliese Mehnert Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	99
8. The Africa Accessioned Network. ‘Museum Collections make Connections’ between Europe and Africa: A Case Study of Finland and Namibia Jeremy Silvester Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	111
9. The Hazina Exhibition. Challenges and Lessons for International Museum Collaboration Kiprop Lagat Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	129
10. Artworks Abroad. Ugandan Art in German Collections Katrin Peters-Klaphake Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	143
PART IV. Critique and evaluation of museum cooperation
11. New Considerations in Afro-European Museum Cooperation in Africa. The Examples of PREMA and Other Initiatives in Ghana Kwame Amoah Labi Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	165
12. Investigating Museum Development in Africa: From Museum Cooperation to the Appropriation of Praxis Emery Patrick Effiboley Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	179
13. Conservation and Restoration as a Challenge for Museum Cooperation. The Case of the Palace Museum in Foumban, Cameroon Michaela Oberhofer Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	195
Conclusion
14. What are the Opportunities, Challenges and Modalities for African and European Museum Cooperation? Cynthia Kros Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	215
Index Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	229
List of Contributors Requires Authentication Unlicensed Licensed Download PDF	237

(Deutsch)

Language: English
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Audience: Professional and scholarly;
Pages
- Main content: 272
Keywords: Postcolonial Theory; (New) Museology; Heritage Studies; African Studies; Museum; Cultural Management; Museology; Museum Management

eBook

Published: July 27, 2018
ISBN: 9783839443811