A visit to the masked figures Herzog-Schroeder
A field-trip through the Amazon in the context of the project “Intertwining the historic collections of Spix and Martius”
A field-trip through the Amazon in the context of the project “Intertwining the historic collections of Spix and Martius”
The exhibition launches on December 6 and presents a series of curatorial responses to current debates.
It was certainly unexpected, when a student assistant, screening Prof. Dr. Erwin Stresemann’s personal estate in our university archive, foun…
Watch the recently released trailer for WOVEN. The short film is coming out soon.
This international workshop explored Indigenous economies in their disctinction from and connection to wider political-economic forces and developments.
The Manumea is an endemic bird of Sāmoa, currently on the brink of extinction. How can museums help to protect it?
El futurismo indígena es un movimiento cultural a través del cual los actores indígenas cuestionan las formas hegemónica…
El futurismo indígena es un movimiento cultural a través del cual los actores indígenas cuestionan las formas hegemónica…
While studying the oral traditions of the Chilean annexation of Rapa Nui, I was surprised by the role played by some material objects…
Erwin Stresemann war einer der bekanntesten Ornithologen Deutschlands – weniger bekannt ist die Geschichte seiner Tätowierung.
Last year I was very fortunate to have been invited to curate the exhibition Then and There, Here and Now: Samoan Portraits.
Read the final part of “Seu and the ruffled bird catcher”, translated into German.
Now available in German: part 2 of Galumalemana Steven Percival’s educational story “Seu and the ruffled bird catcher”.
Noelle M.K.Y. Kahanu (Kanaka ʻOiwi/Native Hawaiian) is a fifteen-year veteran of the Bishop Museum in Honolulu, where she developed scores…
“Lafulafu a tama seugogo” is an old Samoan proverb that teaches the importance of not judging another person by his or her appearance alone…
The plenary “Contested Knowledge: Museological Perspectives” at the 2023 meeting of the German Anthropological Association…
In 2020, amidst the COVID pandemic, the tourism industry came to a complete halt, leaving Rapa Nui (also known as Easter Island) almost entirely isolated from the rest…
Sina Ma Tinirau, the award-winning animated short featuring Polynesia’s best-known love story of all time, is now available online!
En marzo de 2023, en Santiago de Chile, como equipo de IndiGen nos reunimos con colegas de Chile y de Bolivia para reflexionar sobre…
Last week we were invited to present our work and research group on the LMU’s official Instagram account…
The way I approach my surroundings significantly changed after two years of working theoretically as well as hands-on with objects…
On 2 March 2023, Juliane Müller presented her book “El comercio popular globalizado. Mercado, reciprocidad …
A true story: Eight women from Santa Rosa wanted to see a movie set on their home island of Rotuma. And so they got in their cars…
Enero es un mes de intensa actividad en los talleres artesanales de las ciudades de El Alto y La Paz…