About Us
Telling our story – the voices behind the Social Anthropology Teaching Collection project.
Moving ethnographic museums into the twenty-first century requires a critical lens of reflectivity. In order to break down barriers, we must challenge our relationship to the objects and constantly analyse our approaches and processes throughout the project.
Here are our thoughts:
Blogs
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Annabel’s Reflection
Throughout the years of my undergraduate degree in Social Anthropology, I have always been aware…
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Basic Features and Potential Problems in Contemporary and Digital Cataloguing
by Yiyang Wen The fundamental reason people want to catalogue and preserve heritage derives from…
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Zahra’s reflection
By Zahra Abdalla My first essay for the Anthropology in Practice course was centered on…
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The autonomy of objects and the power of stories
Reflections, feeling and the power of crafting a narrative by Yasmin Heyworth What was exceedingly…
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On Provenance Research and Decolonisation
By Adam Swennen Since the life-stories of the objects in our care were so vague…
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Naive Wonder and Shared Humanity
by Aisling Kelly Hidden in the back of the Oxford Natural History Museum, the Pitt…
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Astrid’s Reflection
As a child growing up in London, I had the privilege of visiting the various…
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Beyond Visuality and into an ESP framework
by Ariela Silber Christina Hodge’s interdisciplinary ‘Experiential Observation + Synesthetic Analysis + Polysemous Interpretation’ (ESP)…