3-0390 SMALL MUSEUMS, BIG QUESTIONS. COMMUNITY MUSEUMS IN COLONIAL AND POSTCOLONIAL AFRICA

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Thursday, November 17, 2011: 10:15-12:00

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This session would be of particular interest to:
Practicing and Applied Anthropologists, Teachers of Anthropology in Community Colleges, Students

Organizers: Silvia Forni (ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM) and Ferdinand De Jong (University of East Anglia)

Chairs: Silvia Forni (ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM) and Ferdinand De Jong (University of East Anglia)

Discussants: Christopher B Steiner (Connecticut College)

10:15

Fetishes of Modernity: The Making of Vernacular Modernity In a Senegalese Museum

Ferdinand De Jong (University of East Anglia)

10:30

Kings and Museums In the Cameroonian Grasslands

Silvia Forni (ROYAL ONTARIO MUSEUM)

10:45

“A Museum That Exists to Exist No longer”: Contemporary Urban Heritage At the Ecopole De Dakar

Kinsey A Katchka (Independent Scholar & Curator)

11:00

Curating Forgotten Neighborhoods: Community Museums In Casablanca

Katarzyna Pieprzak (Williams College)

11:15

Discussant

Christopher B Steiner (Connecticut College)

11:30

Discussion

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