Book reviews

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Lotte Arndt
05/07/22
The Invention of Pest Control in Museums
Book Review of Schädlingsbekämpfung in Museen. Wirkstoffe und Methoden am Beispiel des Ethnologischen Museums Berlin. 1887–1936 by Helene Tello.
  Helene Tello: Schädlingsbekämpfung in Museen. Wirkstoffe und Methoden am Beispiel des Ethnologischen Museums Berlin. 1887–1936, Köln Wien, Böhlau Verlag, 2022. ISBN Print: 9783412524609— ISBN E-Book: 9783412524616 Coming from cultural studies, I started to approach the chemical history of conservation in museum collections by looking at it as a cultural technique. I was intrigued by […]
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Carl Deußen
02/12/20
The Dangers of a Comfortable Debate
A Review of Across Anthropology. Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial by Margareta von Oswald and Jonas Tinius
I was excited when I first read the announcement for the publication of Margareta von Oswald’s and Jonas Tinius’ edited volume Across Anthropology. Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial. The long list of contributors, ranging from influential voices in the debate on ethnographic museums to positions from art and activism, promised a thorough discussion […]
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Elara Bertho
03/06/20
To restore = to connect, to live
Felwine Sarr's cosmopolitan thinking
« Habiter ce monde, c’est partir d’un lieu certes, un lieu-matrice, mais dont on apprend à se déprendre pour l’articuler à d’autres lieux. » (Felwine Sarr, Habiter le monde, p. 42) “To live in this world is to start from a place, a place-matrix, but one that you learn to unlearn to articulate it to other places. […]
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Gesa Grimme
27/01/20
Museumsethnologie. Eine Einführung. Theorien. Debatten. Praktiken.
Eine Rezension von Gesa Grimme
This review is currently only available in German.
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Samuel Bachmann
22/10/19
Review: Curatopia. Museums and the Future of Curatorship
A Review by Samuel Bachmann
Schorch, Philipp; McCarthy, Conal (eds.): Curatopia. Museums and the Future of Curatorship. University Press, Manchester (2019). ISBN: 978-1-5261-1819-6.[1] Me, the curator Next to my daily affairs as a curator, there is hardly any time for reflexivity given the versatility of duties I am potentially responsible for. Did I take stock of the recently accepted donations? […]
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