Paul Basu - The Inbetweenness of Things: Materializing Mediation and Movement between Worlds

The Inbetweenness
of Things

The Inbetweenness
of Things

Materializing Mediation and
Movement between Worlds

Edited by

PAUL BASU

Bloomsbury Academic

An imprint of Bloomsbury Publishing Plc

Contents

Paul Basu

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll

Sandra H. Dudley

Stacey R. Jessiman

John Picton

Will Rea

Nick Stanley

Bill Sillar

Silvia Forni

Mary Katherine Scott

Catherine Cummings

Madeline Rose Knickerbocker and Lisa Truong

Lucy Razzall

Clare Rowan

Paul Basu is Professor of anthropology at the School of Oriental and African Studies, University of London. His research focuses on issues of cultural heritage, memory and material culture, particularly relating to West Africa. He has long-standing engagements with critical museology and exhibition practice, recently co-curating, with Julie Hudson, the exhibition Sowei Mask: Spirit of Sierra Leone at the British Museum. His earlier books include Exhibition Experiments (co-edited with Sharon Macdonald) and Museums, Heritage and International Development (co-edited with Wayne Modest).

Khadija von Zinnenburg Carroll is Professor of global art at the University of Birmingham. She is the author of the book Art in the Time of Colony, the curator of various international exhibitions and a co-editor of the journal Third Text. An expert in global contemporary art and colonialism, as well as the history of museums and collecting, she received her PhD from Harvard University and has held fellowships from the British Academy, Sackler-Caird and Humboldt Foundation.

Catherine Cummings is currently research fellow in cultural heritage at the University of Exeter. She is working on the EU-funded project RICHES (Renewal, Innovation and Change: Heritage in European Society). She has previously lectured in art and design history, cultural theory and museology. Her research interests include museum anthropology, colonialism and the formation of ethnographic collections, object biographies, the digitization of cultural heritage, and tangible and intangible cultural heritage.

Sandra H. Dudley is a social anthropologist whose research has focused on refugees, material culture, Burma, India, museums and cultural heritage. A thread running throughout her work is an exploration of what it means, for people and things alike, to be at home (or not). Dudley has published widely; her books include Materialising Exile (2010) and Museum Materialities (2010). She is currently deputy head of the School of Museum Studies, University of Leicester.

Silvia Forni is curator of African arts and cultures at the Royal Ontario Museum. She is also associate professor of anthropology at the University of Toronto. She has published essays in several journals, including African Arts, Critical Interventions and Museum Worlds, and has contributed chapters to many edited volumes. In 2015 she co-edited, with Christopher B. Steiner, the volume Africa in the Market, and is currently co-writing with Doran Ross the volume Art, Honor and Ridicule: Fante Asafo Flags from Southern Ghana.

Stacey R. Jessiman (JD, LLM) is an international transactional and dispute resolution lawyer and an expert on cultural heritage trade issues. After practicing law in New York and Paris, Jessiman completed graduate research work at the University of British Columbia Faculty of Law. She has been a visiting student researcher at the Stanford Archaeology Center, a lecturer in law and visiting scholar at Stanford Law School, and a lecturer in Stanfords Art History and Native American Studies departments.

Madeline Rose Knickerbocker is a white settler scholar and PhD candidate in the Department of History at Simon Fraser University. She is currently completing her community-engaged dissertation, which examines connections between cultural heritage curation and sovereignty activism in St:l communities during the twentieth century. She researches and teaches Indigenous and Canadian histories focusing on politics and activism; feminism, gender and sexuality; material culture, heritage and commemoration; and oral history and community-engaged research methods.

John Picton is Emeritus Professor of African art at the University of London. He worked for the Nigerian Government Department of Antiquities between 1961 and 1970, the British Museum Department of Ethnography between 1970 and 1979, and the School of Oriental and African Studies between 1979 and 2003. His research and publication interests include the sculpture of Yoruba, Edo (Benin City) and lower Niger region peoples, textile history and masquerade in West Africa, and developments in sub-Saharan visual culture since the late nineteenth century.

Lucy Razzall has a PhD in English literature from the University of Cambridge. She has held research and teaching positions at Emmanuel College, Cambridge and Queen Mary University of London. Her research interests lie at the intersections between literature and material culture, particularly in post-Reformation England. She is working on a book about the material and metaphorical possibilities of the box, one of the most ordinary and most evocative of all objects, in early modern English literature.

Will Rea is Senior Lecturer in the history of African art in the School of Fine Art, History of Art and Cultural Studies at the University of Leeds. He completed his PhD at the Sainsbury Research Unit at the University of East Anglia. He has conducted fieldwork in Nigeria since 1990 and has written on Nigerian art history and culture as well as curated exhibitions of Yoruba textiles.

Clare Rowan is an assistant professor in the Department of Classics and Ancient History at the University of Warwick. She works on ancient money and the roles it plays in the formation of identities, communities and ideology in the ancient world. Most recently she has become interested in the role of tokens in antiquity, and their role in constituting daily social life.