Objects Talk Back – serie
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Av Rawi Hage
Häftad, 2026
100 kr
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A personal reflection on fragmentation, language, and place.Following one of the Turfan archaeological expeditions in the early 1900s, a fragment of a Manichaean text written in Uighur and Old Turkic found its way to the Asian Art Museum in Berlin. Originating from the Northern Silk Road region …
Locked In and Out
Av Priya Basil
Häftad, 2025
100 kr
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A reflection on the reconstruction of the Berlin Palace and its contradictory use as an ethnological museum.Having recently accepted German citizenship, writer and activist Priya Basil explores the Humboldt Forum from a deeply personal perspective. She delves into the question of what such a …
Wise One, a Warrior
Häftad, 2025
113 kr
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A narrative of the early modern Indian sculpture known as the Mithuna couple.Meena Kandasamy writes about the Mithuna couple, a seventeenth-century ivory sculpture from Tamil Nadu, India, depicting lovers. Kandasamy unfurls a multi-layered, multi-directional narrative built from images, questions, …
Ladies of the Throne
Häftad, 2025
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An astonishing new narrative of Mandu Yenu, a throne from the ancient Kingdom of Bamum.“Most of the time, it is the power of men that we remember.” With these words, which open Léonora Miano’s text for Objects Talk Back, an astonishing new narrative unfurls around Mandu Yenu, a throne from the …
Artisans
Häftad, 2026
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Is there an autonomous republic of art that transcends time and place?Canadian writer Madeleine Thien reflects on a fragment of a mural depicting Three Uighur Princes from one of the Bezeklik Caves along the Northern Silk Road, in what is now the Xinjiang Uighur Autonomous Region of China. This …
He Heru. A Comb
An Ornament for the Most Sacred Part of the Body
Häftad, 2026
132 kr
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In Whiti Hereaka’s new fiction collection, a single comb becomes a universe of stories.Drawing inspiration from a seemingly simple comb, or heru, this new text by Whiti Heraka comes in nine sections, “a part for each tooth, and a part for each space between them.” The parts tell stories of love, …
De-blading the Knife
Writing Femicide in Mud
Av Cristina Rivera Garza, Cristina Rivera Garza m. fl.
Häftad, 2027
124 kr
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Rooted in Mexican and indigenous practices, De-blading theKnife is Pulitzer Prize winner Cristina Rivera Garza's profound meditation on the erasure of violence against women. Inspired by a walrus-ivory Story Knife from the Arctic region, De-blading theKnife creates a multi-faceted narration that …
Suspended Waters
Volume 9
Av Eliana Hernandez-Pachon, Priya Basil
Häftad, 2027
124 kr
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From the Colombia National Poetry Prize winner, Eliana Hernández-Pachón, comes a poetic essay that asks: what does it mean to possess, to preserve, to let go?Suspended Waters is a poetic essay that connects four objects made of plant fibers: a death raft woven from reeds that has come ashore in the …
Where There is No Door
Av Logan February, Priya Basil
Häftad, 2027
154 kr
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Part prose poem and part scholarly reflection, Where There Is No Door considers historical agency, concealment, and sanctity through a single Yorùbá door in a Berlin museum. A Yorùbá door, carved from iroko wood in the twentieth century, lies unreachable in the depot of the Ethnological Museum of …
On Beauty & Return
Häftad, 2027
154 kr
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No'u Revilla's poetic dedication to a sacred figure of the Hawaiian deity Kihawahine. Hawaiian author No'u Revilla was led to Berlin by a clear desire: to meet the ki'i (sacred figure) of Kihawahine, one of the most powerful deities in Hawaiian history. After the devastating Lahaina wildfires in …
