The article ‘No Museum is an Island: Ethnography beyond Methodological Containerism‘, written by Sharon Macdonald, Christine Gerbich and Margareta von Oswald, was published in Museum & Society. Have a look, it is openly accessible here.
CARMAH Paper #1 - Now available!
CARMAH proudly presents the first collection of essays with an introduction by Sharon Macdonald. Named after the symposium ‘OTHERWISE. Rethinking Museums and Heritage‘ held on 27-28 July 2017, it is an open-access publication and can be downloaded here. Enjoy!
CARMAH at the 15th Biennial Conference of the European Association of Social Anthropologists, Stockholm University, 14-17 August 2018
Suggested further readings: CARMAH's Reflections
Feel invited to have a look at our Reflections page where you’ll find out how Berlin and Paris compare when it comes to the handling of museum collections and colonial legacies (Felicity Bodenstein, Margareta von Oswald, Callum Fisher), how participants of the Museumslabor approached constructing knowledge about the GDR, and how Gabriel Schimmeroth experienced the book launch Proveniezforschung zu ethnografischen Sammlungen der Kolonialzeit. Postitionen in der aktuellen Debatte’.
2018: European Year of Cultural Heritage
What is cultural heritage? Increasing designations of monuments, buildings, and objects as cultural heritage make Sharon Macdonald propose that maybe we’d better ask “What is not cultural heritage?” Find out more about her notion by clicking here.
New CARMAH Newsletter out now
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Listen to Marilyn Strathern's talk 'Transformational relations: transplantation and metamorphosis‘ and other CARMAH recordings online
