Books and journal issues
This co-written book offers a collaborative ethnographic investigation of Indigenous museum practices in three Pacific museums located at the corners of the so-called Polynesian triangle: Bernice Pauahi Bishop Museum, Hawai‘i – Museum of New Zealand Te Papa Tongarewa – Museo Antropológico Padre Sebastián Englert, Rapa Nui.
This book provides a new look at the old anthropological concern with materiality and connectivity. It understands materiality not as defined property of some-thing, nor does it take connectivity as merely a relation between discrete entities. Somewhat akin to Heisenberg’s uncertainty principle, it sees materiality and connectivity as two...
What is the future of curatorship? Is there a vision for an ideal model, a curatopia – whether in the form of a utopia or dystopia? Or is there a plurality of approaches, amounting to a curatorial heterotopia? This pioneering volume addresses these questions by considering the current state of curatorship.
Rapa Nui: Dilemas contemporáneos
Los artículos presentados en este dossier dan cuenta en su conjunto, de un giro paradigmático en la investigación dialógica sobre Rapa Nui y que tiene dobles repercusiones: se plantea desde la generación de conocimiento nuevo y pretende aportar en la comprensión de...
Experiencing Pacific Environments: Pasts, Presents, Futures
In the context of pressing environmental challenges in the Pacific and indeed the world, this special issue sheds light on the diverse ways in which people in Oceania experience environments, as well as the diverse ways in which environmental knowledge can be articulated.
Sensitive Heritage: Ethnographic Museums, Provenance Research and the Potentialities of Restitutions
This special issue juxtaposes articles on approaches to provenance research conducted at German museums and universities with articles on past, present and future potentialities of restitutions...
Articles and chapters
This article introduces the art historical method of functional deixis into the study of material culture in anthropology. Functional deixis begins with a thorough empirical description of communicative effects – visual and embodied – produced by a material thing on the beholder. It then proceeds by tending to a kind of...
Romper el encierro: Las fugas como micropolítica. Rapa Nui (1940–1960)
En este escrito analizamos los itinerarios y las estrategias de acción desplegadas por los jóvenes rapanui en la ejecución de sus fugas. Con ambos aspectos accedemos a una dimensión micropolítica y fenomenológica de estas.