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[Re:]Entanglements

@reentanglements

Twitter account linked to [Re:]Entanglements project - reengaging with West African colonial archives in postcolonial times.

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#[Re:]Entanglements re-entanglements.net Research project exploring the legacies of N. W. Thomas's anthropological surveys of #Nigeria and #SierraLeone #Anthropology
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Great to see our latest exhibition [Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times in this month's @Apollo_magazine! @reentanglements 🗞️ Book your free tickets to the exhibition, open until 17 April 2022: tickets.museums.cam.ac.uk/ov…
A double page spread of an article in Apollo Magazine, on a wooden table. The article title reads 'Rather than sealing them away in museum vaults, we need to bring them into the light': Paul Basu on the challenge of confronting colonial collections. Beneath the title is an image of a two-handled clay jug from Nigeria, featuring a monkey god.

ALT A double page spread of an article in Apollo Magazine, on a wooden table. The article title reads 'Rather than sealing them away in museum vaults, we need to bring them into the light': Paul Basu on the challenge of confronting colonial collections. Beneath the title is an image of a two-handled clay jug from Nigeria, featuring a monkey god.

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[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times exhibition opens today @MAACambridge #nigeria #sierraleone #anthropology #museums #northcotethomas
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[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Time exhibition @MAACambridge 22 June 2021 to 17 April 2022. @reentanglements
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[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times exhibition opening at Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology #reentanglements @MAACambridge
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Okwu ID would like to give a special shout out to @ukpuru who helped make #100YearsOfIgboBeauty a reality.
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Some of the photos digitally colourised on Ụ́kpụ́rụ́ over the last year or so. The original black and white images are from the Northcote Thomas collection of the Royal Anthropological Institute and MAA Cambridge, working with the [Re:]Entanglements project.
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[Re:]Entanglements project features in The Guardian online today - theguardian.com/artanddesign… @RoyalAnthro @SOAS @SOASanthro @MAACambridge #anthropology #colonialism #photography #nigeria #sierraleone
Confronting the colonial archive – in pictures

Confronting the colonial archive – in pictures

British colonial anthropologist Northcote Thomas took thousands of photographs and sound recordings of men, women and children in west Africa between 1909 and 1915. Here’s a selection of the original...

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FACES | VOICES - Black History Month 2019 blackhistorymonth.org.uk/art…
FACES | VOICES

FACES | VOICES

In many regions of the world, ‘anthropology’ is a dirty word. Accused of being the handmaiden of colonialism and tainted by its associations with

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Read our latest blog re-entanglements.net/creativ… - on #art #archive and #ethnography - #artists from #Nigeria and #sierraleone engage with #N.W.Thomas #archives and #collections
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Plant Humanities UK@PlantHums_UK9 May 2019
Paul Basu @SOAS presenting on Re-mobilising collections in times of decolonisation. Exploring challenges around redressing colonial presences and discussing return/repatriation/redress #CollectionsinCirculation
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Guest blog by Jean Borgatti on Eliminya Festival masquerades, Otuo, North Edo, Nigeria - re-entanglements.net/otuo_ma… #Nigeria #art #Africa #africanart #northcotethomas #nwthomas #reentanglements #masquerade #heritage
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Research with Northcote Thomas's #collections @MAACambridge - #museum artefacts meeting 100-year-old photographs of themselves! See re-entanglements.net/object-… #africanart #anthropology #nigeria
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Collections-based research with ethnographic artefacts collected by N. W. Thomas in Nigeria and Sierra Leone at Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology - re-entanglements.net/redisco… #Nigeria #Africa #AfricanArt #Museums #anthropology #NWThomas #MuseumAffordances
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Northcote Thomas experimented with the use of panoramic #photography during his anthropological surveys in West Africa between 1909 and 1915. He also used two cameras to simultaneously photograph ceremonies from different angles. See re-entanglements.net/anthrop…
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Prof Paul Basu receiving blessings at the Imo Awka shrine in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. Paul is following the footsteps of the anthropologist N. W. Thomas in connection with his AHRC-funded project Museum Affordances. See re-entanglements.net. @reentanglements
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Northcote Thomas - sound recording in the field. Photograph of Thomas's wax cylinder phonograph during a recording session at Agila, Benue State, Nigeria in June 1913. re-entanglements.net/sound-r…
Sound recording in the field, Agila, 1913 - [Re:]Entanglements

Sound recording in the field, Agila, 1913 - [Re:]Entanglements

Recording sound in Agila in present-day Benue State, Nigeria. 4 June, 1913. Between 1909 and 1915, Northcote Thomas made about 750 sound recordings using a wax cylinder phonograph over the course of...

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Ethnographic still life photographs by Government Anthropologist, Northcote Thomas #benincity #nigeria #photography #art re-entanglements.net/n-w-tho…
N. W. Thomas - an accidental artist? - [Re:]Entanglements

N. W. Thomas - an accidental artist? - [Re:]Entanglements

Along with the sound archives and collections of artefacts, the photographic legacy of N. W. Thomas’s anthropological surveys in West Africa provide a remarkable record of life in Southern Nigeria...

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Peripheral presences: N. W. Thomas’s field assistants - re-entanglements.net/periphe…
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'Susu Boy' by Chiadikobi Nwaubani. Response to N. W. Thomas's physical type photographs. re-entanglements.net/susu-bo…
‘Susu Boy’, Guest blog by Chiadikōbi Nwaubani - [Re:]Entanglements

‘Susu Boy’, Guest blog by Chiadikōbi Nwaubani - [Re:]Entanglements

'Susu Boy' by Chiadikōbi Nwaubani, 2018. In the first of a series of guest blogs for the [Re:]Entanglements project, the artist and designer Chiadikōbi Nwaubani introduces his discovery of Northcote...

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#BeninCity #Nigeria during the interregnum, 1897-1914. Chief Obaseki photographed by #N.W.Thomas in 1909. re-entanglements.net/northco…
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