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The ‘Pre-Disciplinary’ Early African Collections of the National Museums Scotland
The African collection of the National Museums Scotland (NMS) is one of the oldest in Britain, because it contains assemblages from two other Edinburgh institutions that were founded well before NMS’ own launch in 1854 as The Industrial Museum of Scotland. The earliest of these contributing institutions was the University... -
Conference paper (unpublished)
Music, Movement and the Construction of Identity in Rural Southern Tanzania
Social anthropologists began to take a serious interest in cultural institutions involving spirit possession from the beginning of the 1960s. Where the so-called ‘cults of affliction’ were concerned, the dominant approach in many early studies of was to view them as ‘historically sensitive modes of cultural resistance’ (Body 1994: 419)....Kingdon, Zachary
fieldwork, spiritualism, music, social anthropology, Tanzania, and movement, experience and identities
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2022
Journal article
Nouveaux départs ? Écrire l’histoire de l’art par ses déplacements
Depuis une dizaine d’années, on observe un glissement dans l’historiographie française des institutions culturelles et dans les études sur la vie sociale et culturelle des œuvres. Dans le cadre d’une histoire classique des collections, qui perçoit l’artefact surtout à travers la formation des collections privées et publiques, des logiques de...