Material culture in transit : theory and practice / edited by Zainabu Jallo.

Moving matter : worlds of material culture / Zainabu Jallo -- After interpretive dominance / Anna Schmid -- "Wo ist Afrika?" : of reflexive museography, and other (productive?) disappointments / Sandra Ferracuti -- "Out of context" : translocation of West African artefacts to European museums : the case of the Leo Frobenius Collection from Mali / Cécile Bründlmeyer -- The museum as a colonial archive : the collection of Victor and Marie Solioz and its role in forgetting the colonial past / Samuel B. Bachmann -- Museum collections in transit : towards a history of the artefacts of the Endeavour voyage / Nicholas Thomas -- "To give away my collection for free would be nonsense" : decorations and the emergence of ethnology in Imperial Germany / Carl Deussen -- Discourse on objectification and personification : modern forms of material cultural identity in the Tuareg society / Djouroukoro Diallo -- The material culture of Vodun : case studies from Ghana, Togo, Germany and in between / Niklas Wolf -- Ndambirkus and Ndaokus : Asmat skulls in transit / Jan Joris Visser -- On the art of forging gods : techniques, forces and materials in an Afro-Brazilian religion / Lucas Marques.

"Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice constellates curators and scholars actively working with material culture within academic and museal institutions through theory and practice. The rich collection of essays critically addresses the multivalent ways in which mobility reshapes the characteristics of artefacts, specifically under prevailing issues of representation and colonial liabilities. The volume attests to material culture as central to understanding the repercussions of problematic histories and proposes novel ways to address them. It is valuable reading for scholars of anthropology, museum studies, history and others with an interest in material culture"-- Provided by publisher.