In the context of recent transformations and rebranding strategies of ethnological
museums in Europe and North America, the terms ‘anthropological,’ ‘ethnological,’
‘ethnographic,’ and ‘Völkerkunde’ have progressively disappeared from their titles or have been disguised in acronyms. At the same time, museum theorists and practitioners have called for a ‘post-ethnographic’ or ‘post-ethnological’ museum. Some argue for a radical shift from the museum’s and discipline’s legacies, against the “logos of ethnos” (Deliss); others argue for a “following from” with a difference (Clifford). The prefix ‘post’ does not clearly define what it stands for (or against). What it indicates, however, is the persisting unease about the role of ethnographic museums, and particularly the role of anthropology and its legacies in relationship to the museum. Questioning this constitutive, but challenging, relationship will be the topic of this panel.
Margareta von Oswald (chair of the discussion)
Clémentine Deliss (on 'Conceptualising a Museum-University: Repositories as Sites for Transdisciplinary Research and Cultural Exchange')
Dan Hicks ('On the Treatment of Dead Enemies')
Ashkan Sepahvand (on 'Imagining Elsewhere and Otherwise')

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