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Sacred Objects and Feminine Mysticism in Yoruba Thought System.

Zainabu Jallo In Conversation with Jelili Atiku, multimedia performance artist devoted to Yoruba philosophy. Prologue I took a data highw...

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Being Human, What Does that Even Mean?

"This is as true of humans as of beings of any other kind. Indeed, humans are not really beings at all but becomings"

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Does the “Sensory Turn” mean the End of Ethnographic Storytelling?

Sensory ethnographic storytelling is a defamiliarized lens towards socio-cultural phenomena.

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BETWEEN ANTHROPOCENTRIC HUMANISM AND CRITICAL POST HUMANISM.

Zainabu Jallo In Conversation with Thomas Claviez, Professor of Literary Theory, University of Bern. Prologue “When everything is human, ...

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Following Multidimensional Lives of Objects.

In conversation with Carine Ayéle Durand, Chief Curator and Head of Collections, Ethnographic Museum of Geneva (MEG)

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Looking for Exú in Stuttgart.

In conversation with Sandra Ferracuti. Curator, Africa. Linden-Museum Stuttgart.

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The Curator as Politically and Morally Sentient

A recapitulation of the CURATORIAL STUDIES WINTER SCHOOL FEB 10-15, 2020 at Hochschule der Kunst Bern With TIRDAD ZOLGHADR Organised by P...

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Atabaqués: Drums of Candomblé.

In Candomblé practices, drums are dominant and highly revered instruments. Moreover, outside the confines of African-extracted religious ...

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GHANDI IN THE CANDOMBLÉ COSMOS

What led to the positioning of an unfaltering Hindu alongside Yoruba divinities in an all-male public spectacle?

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Ounje- Food of the Orixás

AN ARTISTIC IMMERSION AROUND THE CUISINE AND CULTURE OF AFRO-BRAZILIAN RELIGIONS. Ounje embraces the influences of Candomblé in Afro-Braz...

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Paul Klee`s Impressive Interpretation of the "Noxious Agents" of a Scholar.

Fighting noxious agents with five activities. Can we stick to them?

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Material Culture in Transit: an international conference (CfP)

This conference is being organised as part of the Doctoral research, "From the Sacred to the Spectacular", funded by the Swiss National ...

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OBJETOS RITUALS EM TRANSFORMAÇAO CULTURAL: An Object-Based Workshop.

On a train from Zürich to Bern earlier this year, preoccupied with thoughts of the divination objects I had been examining in the storag...

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Candomblé in the Paintings of Djanira da Motta e Silva (1916-1979)

The different representations of Candomblé in the Paintings of Djanira da Motta e Silva.

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"If My Father is Ogum": A Ceremony

A first trip to a celebration dedicated to Ogum, the Yoruba deity of iron, war, agriculture and technology.

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ETHNOGRAPHY AS GIFT EXCHANGE

A WORKSHOP RECAPITULATION Sheldon: Wait! You bought me a present? Penny: Uh-huh. Sheldon: Why would you do such a thing? Penny: I don’t k...

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