Podcast CARMAH
CARMAH Conference 'Otherwise' - Session III on Alterity

‘Alterity’ describes the state of being other or different, a sense derived etymologically
from the Latin ‘alter’, meaning ‘other’, or ‘the other (of two)’. Anthropological scholarship
and ethnological museum practices have long been dealing with the representation and the construction of such differences. Postcolonial critiques, the crisis of representation, and
the Writing Culture debate have questioned the ways in which museums and anthropologists deal with the construction and representation of alterity. This panel invites perspectives from anthropology and curating in the context of ethnographic and art exhibition making to discuss the potential and the problems associated with alterity.
Jonas Tinius (chair of the discussion)
Henrietta Lidchi (on 'Bodies Changed into New Forms: Metamorphosis and Museums')
Katharina Schramm (on 'After the Fire: Disrupting Whiteness Towards New Forms of Collaboration in the Space of the South African University')
Alya Sebti (participating discussant)