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Record Nr.

UNINA9910797486103321

Titolo

Foreign exchange : (or the stories you wouldn't tell a stranger) / / edited by Clémentine Deliss & Yvette Mutumba

Pubbl/distr/stampa

Zürich : , : Diaphanes, , [2014]

©2014

ISBN

3-03734-594-2

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (321 p.)

Disciplina

759.994

Soggetti

Ethnology - Germany

Anthropology - Germany - History

International trade - Germany

Germany Commerce History Exhibitions

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references.

Nota di contenuto

5.1 Rituals of Value / Minerva Cuevas5.2 Museum in Reverse / Luke Willis Thompson; 5.3 Immersion / David Weber-Krebs; 5.4 'All of Us': Trauma, Repression, and Ghosts in the Museum / Peggy Buth; 6. Exhibition Views; 7. Appendix; 7.1 Biographies; 7.2 Imprint

Sommario/riassunto

Founded in 1904, Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum houses a remarkable collection of ethnographic artifacts from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas, with the aims of advancing public education and fostering innovative anthropological research across a wide variety of contemporary artistic practices.Developed through artistic research in the Weltkulturen Museum's Weltkulturen Labor research lab, Foreign Exchange raises questions about the relationship between the museum's educational and scientific aims and global trade. Together, essays by anthropologists, art historians, artists, and curat