Research Catalog

Title

Invisible inventories : questioning Kenyan collections in western museums / editors, Marian Nur Goni, Sam Hopkins.

Publication

Bayreuth ; Johannesburg : Iwalewabooks ; Nairobi : Kwani Trust, [2021]

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Details

Additional Authors

• Goni, Marian Nur
• Hopkins, Sam, 1979-
• National Museums of Kenya, host institution.
• Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, host institution.
• Weltkulturen Museum (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), host institution.
• International Inventories Programme, sponsoring body.

Description

86 pages : illustrations (chiefly color), charts, facsimiles, maps, portraits; 30 cm +

Summary

These contributions from International Inventories Programme members and Kenyan museum professionals and practitioners not only critically reflect museum and restitution politics, but also the limits of the cooperation between African and European museums. Besides conversations, essays and texts that accompany the artworks in the exhibition with the same title, the publication also contains a number of object biographies written by different authors that provide different perspectives on the very same objects. The zine supports the decolonising approach of the project by providing perspectives yet underrepresented in international discussions and aims to contribute to the debate on colonial histories that are inscribed in collections and museum.

Series Statement

Zines by Iwalewabooks

Uniform Title

Invisible inventories (Iwalewabooks)

Subject

• Cultural property > Repatriation > Kenya > Exhibitions
• Cultural property > Protection > Kenya > Exhibitions
• Museums > Acquisitions > Kenya > Exhibitions
• Museum cooperation > Exhibitions
• Antiquities
• Cultural property > Protection
• Cultural property > Repatriation
• Museum cooperation
• Museums > Acquisitions
• Cultural property
• Museums
• Kenya > Antiquities > Exhibitions
• Kenya

Genre/Form

Exhibition catalogs.

Note

• Title from cover.
• Published in association with an exhibition held at the National Museums of Kenya, Nairobi, March 18- May 2, 2021; at the Rautenstrauch-Joest Museum, Köln, May 28-August 29, 2021; at the Weltkulturen Museum, Frankfurt am Main, October 6, 2021-January 9, 2022.
• "With contributions by The Nest Collective, Jacky Kwonyike, Leonie Chima Emeka and Niklas Obermann, Chao Tayiana Maina, Sam Hopkins and Simon Rittmeier, George Abungu, Marian Nur Goni, Juma Ondeng', SHIFT Collective, Leonie Neumann and Frauke Gathof, Clara Himmelheber, Philemon Nyamanga and Lydia Nafula, Philip Jimbi Katana, Wandile Kasibe."--Publisher's website.

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references.

Call Number

ReCAP 23-5198

ISBN

• 9783947902200
• 3947902204

LCCN

2021315170

OCLC

1343956236

Title

Invisible inventories : questioning Kenyan collections in western museums / editors, Marian Nur Goni, Sam Hopkins.

Publisher

Bayreuth ; Johannesburg : Iwalewabooks ; Nairobi : Kwani Trust, [2021]

Type of Content

text

still image

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

Zines by Iwalewabooks

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Added Author

Goni, Marian Nur, editor.

Hopkins, Sam, 1979- editor.

National Museums of Kenya, host institution.

Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, host institution.

Weltkulturen Museum (Frankfurt am Main, Germany), host institution.

International Inventories Programme, sponsoring body.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 23-5198