Paola Ivanov
Biographic Data
| ID | 201681 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Paola Ivanov |
| GIVEN NAMES | Paola |
| FAMILY NAME | Ivanov |
| SIGNATURE | IVANOV P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Prussian Cultural Heritage Foundation |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 7 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 7 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2000 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2020 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
"Collaborative" provenance research - About the (im)possibility of smashing colonial frameworks
This article aims to reflect on the aporias and paradoxes of a postcolonial, collaborative research approach to ethnographic collections dating from colonial times. While, at least in Germany, 'provenance research' and 'collaboration' have become politically opportune, important questions concerning the possibilities or impossibilities of overcoming colonial categories, epistemologies and imbalances of power remain to be answered. Based on resear…
Art/Histories in Transcultural Dynamics: Narratives, Concepts, and Practices at work, 20th and 21st Centuries
Rethinking Coevalness: Entangled History and the Objects of Ethnological Museums
The Aesthetic Constitution of Space
The Indian Ocean looks back on a long history of exchange concerning luxury goods that were primarily used for personal and interior decoration as well as in performative situations. In view of the primarily aesthetic dimension of the items of trade, Ivanov's article examines the role of aesthetics for creating social ties within the Indian Ocean. Based on a praxeological approach and phenomenological considerations, the article understands socia…
Constructing translocal socioscapes: Consumerism, aesthetics, and visuality in Zanzibar Town
In examining the burgeoning practices of conspicuous consumption of imported commodities in contemporary Zanzibar Town, this contribution seeks to go beyond simplifying interpretations of non-Western consumerism by focusing on the significance of aesthetics and beauty in Zanzibar's social life. Following Alfred Gell, aesthetics is seen as a "technology of enchantment". It deploys its effectiveness in an agonistic as well as unifying sense in the …
Cannibals, Warriors, Conquerors, and Colonizers: Western Perceptions and Azande Historiography
Mainly as a result of the work of E. E. Evans-Pritchard, the Azande are among the best-known African peoples. In anthropological theory they have become indissolubly associated with the study of religion and magic. Also remarkable is their expansion under the leadership of the dynasties of the Avungara and the originally Ngbandi-speaking Abandia. Starting from a small core area in the basin of the lower Mbomu, where the ancestors of the Avungara …
African Art in the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin
Presentation et commentaire de l'exposition Afrika. Kunst und Kultur (Afrique. Art et culture) au Ethnologisches Museum de Berlin (anciennement Museum fur Volkerkunde). Outre la presentation d'un certain nombre d'oeuvres, l'A. donne un apercu de l'histoire des collections ethnographiques du musee : la recuperation, apres 1989, d'une partie des oeuvres dispersees depuis la seconde Guerre mondiale et les implications museologiques ; la constitution…
Constructing translocal socioscapes: Consumerism, aesthetics, and visuality in Zanzibar Town
In examining the burgeoning practices of conspicuous consumption of imported commodities in contemporary Zanzibar Town, this contribution seeks to go beyond simplifying interpretations of non-Western consumerism by focusing on the significance of aesthetics and beauty in Zanzibar's social life. Following Alfred Gell, aesthetics is seen as a "technology of enchantment". It deploys its effectiveness in an agonistic as well as unifying sense in the …
"Collaborative" provenance research - About the (im)possibility of smashing colonial frameworks
This article aims to reflect on the aporias and paradoxes of a postcolonial, collaborative research approach to ethnographic collections dating from colonial times. While, at least in Germany, 'provenance research' and 'collaboration' have become politically opportune, important questions concerning the possibilities or impossibilities of overcoming colonial categories, epistemologies and imbalances of power remain to be answered. Based on resear…
The Aesthetic Constitution of Space
The Indian Ocean looks back on a long history of exchange concerning luxury goods that were primarily used for personal and interior decoration as well as in performative situations. In view of the primarily aesthetic dimension of the items of trade, Ivanov's article examines the role of aesthetics for creating social ties within the Indian Ocean. Based on a praxeological approach and phenomenological considerations, the article understands socia…
Cannibals, Warriors, Conquerors, and Colonizers: Western Perceptions and Azande Historiography
Mainly as a result of the work of E. E. Evans-Pritchard, the Azande are among the best-known African peoples. In anthropological theory they have become indissolubly associated with the study of religion and magic. Also remarkable is their expansion under the leadership of the dynasties of the Avungara and the originally Ngbandi-speaking Abandia. Starting from a small core area in the basin of the lower Mbomu, where the ancestors of the Avungara …
African Art in the Ethnologisches Museum in Berlin
Presentation et commentaire de l'exposition Afrika. Kunst und Kultur (Afrique. Art et culture) au Ethnologisches Museum de Berlin (anciennement Museum fur Volkerkunde). Outre la presentation d'un certain nombre d'oeuvres, l'A. donne un apercu de l'histoire des collections ethnographiques du musee : la recuperation, apres 1989, d'une partie des oeuvres dispersees depuis la seconde Guerre mondiale et les implications museologiques ; la constitution…
Cannibals, Warriors, Conquerors, and Colonizers: Western Perceptions and Azande Historiography
Mainly as a result of the work of E. E. Evans-Pritchard, the Azande are among the best-known African peoples. In anthropological theory they have become indissolubly associated with the study of religion and magic. Also remarkable is their expansion under the leadership of the dynasties of the Avungara and the originally Ngbandi-speaking Abandia. Starting from a small core area in the basin of the lower Mbomu, where the ancestors of the Avungara …
Constructing translocal socioscapes: Consumerism, aesthetics, and visuality in Zanzibar Town
In examining the burgeoning practices of conspicuous consumption of imported commodities in contemporary Zanzibar Town, this contribution seeks to go beyond simplifying interpretations of non-Western consumerism by focusing on the significance of aesthetics and beauty in Zanzibar's social life. Following Alfred Gell, aesthetics is seen as a "technology of enchantment". It deploys its effectiveness in an agonistic as well as unifying sense in the …
Art/Histories in Transcultural Dynamics: Narratives, Concepts, and Practices at work, 20th and 21st Centuries
Rethinking Coevalness: Entangled History and the Objects of Ethnological Museums
The Aesthetic Constitution of Space
The Indian Ocean looks back on a long history of exchange concerning luxury goods that were primarily used for personal and interior decoration as well as in performative situations. In view of the primarily aesthetic dimension of the items of trade, Ivanov's article examines the role of aesthetics for creating social ties within the Indian Ocean. Based on a praxeological approach and phenomenological considerations, the article understands socia…
"Collaborative" provenance research - About the (im)possibility of smashing colonial frameworks
This article aims to reflect on the aporias and paradoxes of a postcolonial, collaborative research approach to ethnographic collections dating from colonial times. While, at least in Germany, 'provenance research' and 'collaboration' have become politically opportune, important questions concerning the possibilities or impossibilities of overcoming colonial categories, epistemologies and imbalances of power remain to be answered. Based on resear…
Sociology (4 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Art (3 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · Aesthetics (2 works) · African history and culture studies (2 works) · Anthropology (2 works)