Margareta Von Oswald
Biographic Data
| ID | 1262884 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Margareta Von Oswald |
| GIVEN NAMES | Margareta |
| FAMILY NAME | Von Oswald |
| SIGNATURE | VON OSWALD M |
| AFFILIATIONS | Trimble (Germany) |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 5 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 4 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 2 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2012 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Across Anthropology
Reframing anthropology: contemporary art, curatorial practice, postcolonial activism, and museums\nHow can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through convers…
Across Anthropology
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition-making. This collec…
No Museum is an Island
This article addresses the question of how to go beyond the conceptualisation of museums as islands in museum ethnography without losing the ethnographic depth and insights that such research can provide. Discussing existing ethnographic research in museums, the ethnographic turn in organization studies, and methodological innovation that seeks to go beyond bounded locations in anthropology, we offer a new museum methodology that retains ethnogra…
Decolonizing Research, Cosmo-optimistic Collaboration
In Germany, the new cultural center Humboldt Forum (to open in 2019) has become a major site of debate. It will include the contested collections of both the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art, which contributed to the negotiation of the role of colonial legacies and their reverberances on contemporary Germany. We took those contestations as a point of departure for the exhibition Object Biographies (2015), part of the program Humbol…
La Triennale
Ce texte propose une analyse de l'exposition La Triennale : Intense Proximité d'Okwui Enwezor (Palais de Tokyo, 2012) à partir d'une approche ethnographique. En prenant en compte les différents acteurs engagés dans le projet — commissaires d'exposition, acteurs politiques et culturels — et en analysant leurs intérêts et valeurs propres, il entend montrer comment le concept de l'exposition a pris progressivement forme, dans un contexte politique f…
What Kind of Postcolonial Museum? The Circulation of Objects as a Postcolonial Lever
December 01 2012 What Kind of Postcolonial Museum? The Circulation of Objects as a Postcolonial Lever: Study Day at Bétonsalon, Paris, December 2011 Margareta von Oswald Margareta von Oswald Margareta von Oswald is a sociologist doing an ethnography of the contemporary art exhibition “La Triennale” in Paris, which opened in April 2012. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article In…
No Museum is an Island
This article addresses the question of how to go beyond the conceptualisation of museums as islands in museum ethnography without losing the ethnographic depth and insights that such research can provide. Discussing existing ethnographic research in museums, the ethnographic turn in organization studies, and methodological innovation that seeks to go beyond bounded locations in anthropology, we offer a new museum methodology that retains ethnogra…
Across Anthropology
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition-making. This collec…
What Kind of Postcolonial Museum? The Circulation of Objects as a Postcolonial Lever
December 01 2012 What Kind of Postcolonial Museum? The Circulation of Objects as a Postcolonial Lever: Study Day at Bétonsalon, Paris, December 2011 Margareta von Oswald Margareta von Oswald Margareta von Oswald is a sociologist doing an ethnography of the contemporary art exhibition “La Triennale” in Paris, which opened in April 2012. [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: This Site Google Scholar Author and Article In…
La Triennale
Ce texte propose une analyse de l'exposition La Triennale : Intense Proximité d'Okwui Enwezor (Palais de Tokyo, 2012) à partir d'une approche ethnographique. En prenant en compte les différents acteurs engagés dans le projet — commissaires d'exposition, acteurs politiques et culturels — et en analysant leurs intérêts et valeurs propres, il entend montrer comment le concept de l'exposition a pris progressivement forme, dans un contexte politique f…
Decolonizing Research, Cosmo-optimistic Collaboration
In Germany, the new cultural center Humboldt Forum (to open in 2019) has become a major site of debate. It will include the contested collections of both the Ethnological Museum and the Museum of Asian Art, which contributed to the negotiation of the role of colonial legacies and their reverberances on contemporary Germany. We took those contestations as a point of departure for the exhibition Object Biographies (2015), part of the program Humbol…
No Museum is an Island
This article addresses the question of how to go beyond the conceptualisation of museums as islands in museum ethnography without losing the ethnographic depth and insights that such research can provide. Discussing existing ethnographic research in museums, the ethnographic turn in organization studies, and methodological innovation that seeks to go beyond bounded locations in anthropology, we offer a new museum methodology that retains ethnogra…
Across Anthropology
How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition-making. This collec…
Across Anthropology
Reframing anthropology: contemporary art, curatorial practice, postcolonial activism, and museums\nHow can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through convers…
Sociology (6 works) · Anthropology (4 works) · Art (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Exhibition (3 works) · History (3 works) · Media studies (3 works) · Museums and Cultural Heritage (3 works) · Visual arts (3 works) · Archaeology (2 works)