Book Review: Iris Edenheiser and Larissa F?rster (eds.), Museumsethnologie - Eine Einführung: Theorien, Debatten, Praktiken

摘要

Museumsethnologie - Eine Einführung: Theorien, Debatten, Praktiken offers the first and longoverdue introduction to ‘Museumsethnologie’ (museum anthropology) devoted to ‘Theorien,Debatten, Praktiken’ (theories, debates, practices) associated with the German ethnological(ethnographic) museum landscape. Following the conceptual design of the edited collection,the editors pay heed to the particularities of disciplinary and institutional histories andcontemporary situations of the ‘German case’, but also link it to the international sea changethat has affected and reconstituted the very idea of the ethnographic museum in many partsof the world. Furthermore, the editors and authors show that the German scenario needs, infact, to be pluralized, as imperial, fascist, socialist and nowadays federative reconfigurationshave reshaped theories, debates and practices in museum anthropology at different pointsin time and in differing localities.