Weltkulturenmuseum - Publications

healing. Life in Balance

Alice Pawlik and Dr. Mona Suhrbier (eds.): 256 pages, Publisher: Kerber

Invisible Inventories. Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums

Marian Nur Goni, Sam Hopkins (ed.): 86 pages, in German and English available at the Museum.
ISBN 978-3-947902-21-7 7,00

GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour coding worlds

Matthias Claudius Hofmann (ed.): 256 pages, edition in German and Englisch available. Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0750-8 (D), 978-3-7356-0751-5 (ENG) 29,90

DAS MUSEUM VERLERNEN? Kolonialität und Vermittlung in ethnologischen Museen (Unlearning the Museum? Coloniality and Education in Ethnological Museums)

Volume 1: Nora Landkammer: Eine Analyse gegenwärtiger Diskurse in einem konfliktreichen Praxisfeld (An Analysis of Contemporary Discourses in a Conflict-Ridden Practice)
Volume 2: Praxen und Reflexionen kritischer Bildung und Wissensproduktion (Practices of and Reflections on Critical Education and the Production of Knowledge) Edited by Stephanie Endter, Nora Landkammer, Karin Schneider
ISBN Band 1: 978-3-937624-71-6
ISBN Band 2: 978-3-937624-72-3

Vienna: Zaglossus, 2021
Order via: 24,95

BOUGHT. COLLECTED. LOOTED?

Historisches Museum Frankfurt (ed.): 90 pages, softcover, available in Germand and English at the museum. Editor: Heinrich Editionen, ISBN 978-3-96320-024-3 (G), 978-3-96320-028-1 (Eng) 9,95

GREY IS THE NEW PINK - Moments of Ageing

Alice Pawlik (ed.): ca. 240 pages, paper back, edition in German and Englisch available at the museum from October 2018. Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0491-0 (D), 978-3-7356-0492-7 (Eng) 29,90

ENTRE TERRA E MAR. Between Land and Sea. Transatlantic Art

Mona Suhrbier (ed.): 220 pages, bound, edition in German and Englisch available at the museum from November 2017.
Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0393-7 (D), 978-3-7356-0394-4 (ENG) 28,00

THE COMMON THREAD - The Warp and Weft of Thinking

Vanessa von Gliszczynski, Mona Suhrbier and Eva Ch. Raabe (ed.): 255 pages, numerous coloured illustrations, softcover with flaps, bound, Available in bookstores and at the Weltkulturen Museum, Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0268-8 29,95

A LABOUR OF LOVE.

Yvette Mutumba and Gabi Ngcobo. (Hg.): 336 pages, softcover with flaps, bound, numerous illustrations, facsimile and photographs, bi-lingual in one volume: German and English. Publisher: Kerber, ISBN 978-3-7356-0140-7 42,00

“Something about Africa” – Challenges Facing the Education at the Weltkulturen Museum

Stephanie Endter und Carolin Rothmund (ed.): 222 pages, numerous colour illustrations, facsimile and Photographs, softcover, Publisher: Kerber, ISBN 978-3-7356-0137-7 In German. 27,00

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THE COMMON THREAD - The Warp and Weft of Thinking

Why are the principles for the first computer based on a loom? Why do so many maths teachers in Peru come from the families of weavers? What meanings lie behind the language of textile idioms?

Threads, materials and patterns are taken for granted as a natural part of our daily life. Around the world, textile ideas and terms inform our language, narratives, stories and myths. Making textiles also stimulates our spatial and mathematical thinking.

Taking the Weltkulturen Museum’s textile collections from the Americas, South East Asia, Oceania and Africa as a basis, THE COMMON THREAD reflects on and presents the culturally diverse techniques of textile production. This publication takes an interdisciplinary perspective from cultural anthropology, philosophy to contemporary music and art to offer a deeper insight into the topics addressed in the exhibition.

With contributions by artists and scholars: Max Carocci, Maren Gebhardt, Shan Goshorn, William Ingram, Gerhard Müller-Hornbach, Dagmar Schweitzer de Palacios, Pirita Seitamaa-Hakkarainen, Sarah Sense, Jens Soentgen, Ruth Stützle Kaiser, Rangi Te Kanawa and Tim Zahn.

Edited by Vanessa von Gliszczynski, Mona Suhrbier and Eva Ch. Raabe

Design: U9 visuelle Allianz, Offenbach am Main

255 pages, numerous coloured illustrations, softcover with flaps, bound, 16,8 x 23 cm

Publisher: Kerber
ISBN: 978-3-7356-0268-8 (English edition)
ISBN: 978-3-7356-0267-1 (German edition)

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