Working Through Colonial Collections

Margareta von Oswald is an anthropologist and curator. She is a research fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin. She co-edited 'Across Anthropology. Troubling Colonial Legacies, Museums, and the Curatorial' (2020, Leuven University Press).

A visual introduction Acknowledgements Foreword
Introduction
Chapter One Learning about German colonialism: On memory, activism, and the Humboldt Forum
Chapter Two Being affected: A methodological approach to working through colonial collections
Chapter Three Expanding collection histories: The museum as peopled organisation
Chapter Four Troubling epistemologies: On the endurance of colonial discrimination
Chapter Five Managing plethora:Caring for colonial collections
Chapter Six Researching provenance: The politics of writing history
Chapter Seven Probing materiality: Collections as amalgams of their histories
Chapter Eight Repairing representations: Curatorial cultures and change in the Ethnological Museum
Conclusion
Timeline References cited