Maize Deity or Spirit in the Andean Worldview

Chapters in this book

1. Frontmatter 1
2. Contents 5
3. Spaces of Care: Introduction 9
4. Speculating Towards More Caring Futures
5. The Museum as a Space of Radical Imagination: Dismantling and Rebuilding Political Worlds 25
6. The Future Claimant’s Representative: On the Task of the Museum in the Time of the Planet 39
7. Toward a Negative Zoology: Not-Knowing for a Post- Anthropocene Future 51
8. Holding On, Letting Go: Escaping the Contemporary Museum 59
9. Experiment and Excavation in the Ethnographic Museum: Care, Cruelty, and Barbara Harrisson 69
10. Museums of Non-Natural History 77
11. Alongside One Another: Myth-Making and Risk in Narrativizing Enslavement at the Cape of Good Hope 83
12. Making (a) Difference
13. Yuki Kihara’s Going Native at Museum Volkenkunde 97
14. Conversation between Fernanda Olivares, Nicolás Spencer, Nora Haas, and Claudia Augustat 103
15. Shared Reflections on Artistic Creation Processes in Times of COVID-19 109
16. The Art of Hawaiian Quilting 117
17. Reflections on A Collection in Turmoil. A Three-Day Workshop Held in September 2022 at MUCIV 123
18. Curators As Mediators Between the Community and Museum 129
19. Seko Na Seko (Forever) 135
20. gathering, weathering 139
21. The Cursed Land of Lustful Women 145
22. Turning the Gaze Outside-In – Exploring Danish Pasts in Graphic Storytelling 151
23. Material Memories for Future Worlds
24. Wood, Ivory, and Palm Nuts: A (Dis)Continuation of an Old Sengele Story 159
25. Climate Crisis – The Decline of Biodiversity and an Over 140-Year-Old Necklace 163
26. The Doum Palm Between Colonial Exploitation and Collecting 167
27. Native Hawaiian Kapa: Rebuilding a Sustainable Future 173
28. A World in a Box: Education and/or Extraction in a Dutch Colonial School Collection 177
29. Hundred-year-old Seediq Stories in the Swedish Collection 181
30. Yeil koowú – A Raven’s Tail Ceremonial Robe 185
31. Cotton Cultivation in Togo Through the Lens of Europe's Periphery 189
32. Gentle Glory: Loss, Exile, and Survival in an Eleventh Century Tibetan Bodhisattva 193
33. Skin and the Archive: Reading Ecology and Colonial Legacies in a Kuria Drum 197
34. Rethinking Worldviews Through the Moche Blood Ceremony Ceramic Vessel: Lessons from the Past for an Environmentally Just Future 201
35. Maize Deity or Spirit in the Andean Worldview 205
36. Corona Puppet 209
37. Biographies of Contributors 213