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The Common Thread
From fibers to threads and dyes to fabrics, The Common Thread looks at textile techniques and their contexts of meaning, with the Museum of World Cultures' collections from the Americas, Indonesia, Oceania, and Africa forming the starting point. The book presents connections between textile skills and the manifestation basic cognitive abilities. Narrative motifs from various cultures indicate how deeply terms connected with textiles have become established in our use of language. Interdisciplinary perspectives, for instance, from philosophy or contemporary art and music, deepen these themes and offer new, contemporary interpretations.
Sites, Bodies and Stories
Sites, Bodies and Stories examines the intimate links between history and heritage as they have developed in postcolonial Indonesia. Sites discussed in the book include Borobudur in Central Java, a village in Flores built around megalithic formations, and ancestral houses in Alor. Bodies refers to legacies of physical anthropology, exhibition practices and Hollywood movies. The Stories are accounts of the Mambesak movement in Papua, the inclusion of wayang puppetry in UNESCO s List of the Intangible Cultural Heritage of Humanity, and subaltern history as written by the people of Blambangan in their search for national heroes. Throughout the book, citizenship entitlement figures as a leitmoti...
Arts in the Margins of World Encounters
'Arts in the Margins of World Encounters' presents original contributions that deal with artworks of differently marginalized people—such as ethnic minorities, refugees, immigrants, disabled people, and descendants of slaves—, a wide variety of art forms—like clay figures, textile, paintings, poems, museum exhibits and theatre performances—, and original data based on committed, long-term fieldwork and/or archival research in Brazil, Martinique, Rwanda, India, Indonesia, Japan, Australia, and New Zealand. The volume develops theoretical approaches inspired by innovative theorists and is based on currently debated analytical categories including the ethnographic turn in contemporary art, polycentric aesthetics, and aesthetic cannibalization, among others. This collection also incorporates fascinating and intriguing contemporary cases, but with solid theoretical arguments and grounds. 'Arts in the Margins of World Encounters' will appeal to students at all levels, scholars, and practitioners in arts, aesthetics, anthropology, social inequality, and discrimination, as well as researchers in other fields, including post-colonialism and cultural organizations.
Being Object, Being Art
Cultures contribute to the richness of this world through their uniqueness and variety - as do their material products. This is reflected in the ethnographic collections from Africa, the Americas, South East Asia, Oceania and East Asia at the Museum of World Cultures in Frankfurt. Using exceptional photographs, 130 everyday objects or ritual items are presented from the huge collection.The objects in this volume are described and interpreted simultaneously as works of art. The book questions the environment in which the work was created and which ideas about design, colour, form, symmetry, balance, etc., might have influenced their production. The common goal is to present what it is about these works that are exceptional, elaborate, other, perfect or imperfect in fact, harmonious or disturbing.
Oceania
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"Was ist die Kunst wert?"
Inhaltsangabe:Zusammenfassung: Der Komplex brasilianische Kunst wurde innerhalb ethnologischer Betrachtungen noch wenig behandelt. Er passt nicht in das klassische Konzept der Kunstethnologie, die sich bis vor kurzem noch fast ausschließlich mit Formen nicht-westlicher Kunst auseinander setzte, die so genannten small-scale societies oder face-to-face societies zugeschrieben wurde. Erst seit einigen Jahren eröffnen Fragen aus der sich globalisierenden Kunstwelt auch der Kunstethnologie neue Horizonte, welche die Untersuchung außereuropäischer Künste in einer größeren Bandbreite, aus anderen Blickwinkeln heraus und auf anderen Ebenen fordern. Die Autorin wendet sich der Betrachtung eine...
Learning and Understanding in the Old Norse World
This volume presents twenty essays by leading scholars of Old Norse which bring into focus the nature of learned traditions - both oral and written - in medieval Scandinavia and the interpretation and re-interpretation of them over time. Theoretical frameworks for understanding Old Norse literature is the initial topic of the collection, which then moves on to present recent work on Old Norse myth and society; current perspectives on oral traditions in performance and text; and reflections on medieval ideas about language, both vernacular and Latin. The collection is rounded off by a section on prolonged traditions - the transformation of local and imported traditions into new literary forms...
The Melanesian World
This wide-ranging volume captures the diverse range of societies and experiences that form what has come to be known as Melanesia. It covers prehistoric, historic and contemporary issues, and includes work by art historians, political scientists, geographers and anthropologists. The chapters range from studies of subsistence, ritual and ceremonial exchange to accounts of state violence, new media and climate change. The ‘Melanesian world’ assembled here raises questions that cut to the heart of debates in the human sciences today, with profound implications for the ways in which scholars across disciplines can describe and understand human difference. This impressive collection of essays represents a valuable resource for scholars and students alike.
Anthropos
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Ästhetik des (Nicht)Wissens
Kann zeitgenössischer Kunst im Feld ethnologischer Museen ein epistemisches Potenzial zuerkannt werden, das sich jenseits herkömmlicher Erkenntnisformen zeigt? Beatrice Barrois konzentriert sich auf die Kategorie des (Nicht)Wissens als ästhetische Erfahrung im Ausstellungsraum und entfaltet so neue Sichtweisen auf künstlerische Positionen, die sich kritisch mit ethnografischen Sammlungen auseinandersetzen. Dabei wird schwerpunktmäßig die Ausstellung „Ware&Wissen (or the stories you wouldn´t tell a stranger)“ fokussiert, die 2014/15 im Frankfurter Weltkulturen Museum stattfand. Darüber hinaus werden Bezüge zu anderen ethnologischen Ausstellungen und Künstlern wie etwa Fred Wilson hergestellt. Mit ihrer epistemologischen Exkursion liefert die Autorin eine Perspektive, die Grenzen des Wissens deutlich und das künstlerische Experiment zum Gegenstand neuer Wissens(un)ordnungen macht.
