List of imagesAcknowledgementsIntroduction: Across AnthropologyMargareta von Oswald and Jonas TiniusMuseums and the Savage SublimeArjun AppaduraiTransforming the Ethnographic : Anthropological Articulations in Museum and Heritage ResearchSharon Macdonald“Museums are Investments in Critical Discomfort”A conversation with Wayne ModestFrontiers of the (Non)Humanly (Un)Imaginable : Anthropological Estrangement and the Making of Persona at the Musée du Quai BranlyEmmanuel Grimaud“On Decolonising Anthropological Museums : Curators Need to Take ‘Indigenous’ Forms of Knowledge More Seriously”A conversation with Anne-Christine TaylorTroubling Colonial Epistemologies in Berlin’s Ethnologisches Museum : Provenance Research and the Humboldt ForumMargareta von Oswald“Against the Mono-Disciplinarity of Ethnographic Museums”A conversation with Clementine DelissResisting Extraction Politics : Afro-Belgian Claims, Women’s Activism, and the Royal Museum for Central AfricaSarah Demart“Finding Means to Cannibalise the Anthropological Museum”A conversation with Toma Muteba LuntumbueAnimating Collapse: Reframing Colonial Film ArchivesAlexander Schellow and Anna Seiderer“Translating the Silence”A conversation with le peuple qui manqueArt-Anthropology Interventions in the Italian Post-Colony : The Scattered Colonial Body ProjectArnd Schneider“Dissonant Agents and Productive Refusals”A conversation with Natasha GinwalaPorous Membranes : Hospitality, Alterity, and Anthropology in a Berlin District GalleryJonas Tinius“What happens in that space in-between and beyond this relation”A conversation with Bonaventure Soh Bejeng NdikungMaterial Kin : “Communities of Implication” in Post-Colonial, Post-Holocaust Polish Ethnographic CollectionsErica Lehrer“Suggestions for a Post-Museum”A conversation with Nanette SnoepRepresentation of Culture(s) : Articulations of the De/Post-Colonial at the Haus der Kulturen der Welt in BerlinAnnette Bhagwati“How Do We Come Together in a World that Isolates Us?”A conversation with Nora SternfeldThe Trans-Anthropological, Anachronism, and the ContemporaryRoger SansiList of contributorsVisual constellations across the fieldsSome lists to inspire the readerReframing anthropology: contemporary art, curatorial practice, postcolonial activism, and museumsHow can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition making. This collection considers where and how anthropology is troubled, mobilised, and rendered meaningful.Across Anthropology charts new ground by analysing the convergences of museums, curatorial practice, and Europe’s reckoning with its colonial legacies. Situated amid resurgent debates on nationalism and identity politics, this book addresses scholars and practitioners in fields spanning the arts, social sciences, humanities, and curatorial studies.How can we rethink anthropology beyond itself? In this book, twenty-one artists, anthropologists, and curators grapple with how anthropology has been formulated, thought, and practised ‘elsewhere’ and ‘otherwise’. They do so by unfolding ethnographic case studies from Belgium, France, Germany, Italy, the Netherlands, and Poland – and through conversations that expand these geographies and genealogies of contemporary exhibition making. This collection considers where and how anthropology is troubled, mobilised, and rendered meaningful.Across Anthropology charts new ground by analysing the convergences of museums, curatorial practice, and Europe’s reckoning with its colonial legacies. Situated amid resurgent debates on nationalism and identity politics, this book addresses scholars and practitioners in fields spanning the arts, social sciences, humanities, and curatorial studies. Preface by Arjun Appadurai. Afterword by Roger SansiContributors: Arjun Appadurai (New York University), Annette Bhagwati (Museum Rietberg, Zurich), Clémentine Deliss (Berlin), Sarah Demart (Saint-Louis University, Brussels), Natasha Ginwala (Gropius Bau, Berlin), Emmanuel Grimaud (CNRS, Paris), Aliocha Imhoff and Kantuta Quirós (Paris), Erica Lehrer (Concordia University, Montreal), Toma Muteba Luntumbue (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels), Sharon Macdonald (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Wayne Modest (Research Center for Material Culture, Leiden), Bonaventure Soh Bejeng Ndikung (SAVVY Contemporary, Berlin), Margareta von Oswald (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin), Roger Sansi (Barcelona University), Alexander Schellow (Ecole de Recherche Graphique, Brussels), Arnd Schneider (University of Oslo), Anna Seiderer (University Paris 8), Nanette Snoep (Rautenstrauch-Joest-Museum, Cologne), Nora Sternfeld (Kunsthochschule Kassel), Anne-Christine Taylor (Paris), Jonas Tinius (Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin)