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Foreign Exchange: (Or the Stories You Wouldn't Tell a Stranger)
Deliss, Clementine, Mutumba, Yvette, Museum, Weltkulturen
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Description for Foreign Exchange: (Or the Stories You Wouldn't Tell a Stranger)
Paperback. Founded in 1904, Frankfurt's Weltkulturen Museum houses a remarkable collection of ethnographic artifacts from Asia, Africa, Oceania, and the Americas. This book raises questions about the relationship between the museum's educational and scientific aims and global trade. Num Pages: 320 pages, 87 colour plates, 78 halftones. BIC Classification: AGC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 230 x 169 x 24. Weight in Grams: 764.
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 curators form an extended conversation around the historical accumulation and commodification of artifacts and, in particular, the representation of the human body in ... Read more
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 curators form an extended conversation around the historical accumulation and commodification of artifacts and, in particular, the representation of the human body in ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Diaphanes
Condition
New
Number of Pages
320
Place of Publication
Zurich, Switzerland
ISBN
9783037346686
SKU
V9783037346686
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Ref
99-1
About Deliss, Clementine, Mutumba, Yvette, Museum, Weltkulturen
Clementine Deliss is the director of the Weltkulturen Museum in Frankfurt, where Yvette Mutumba is the research curator for African art.
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