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"Mortui Vivos Docent"
(April 2024)
Prof. Albert Gouaffo - Université de Dschang, Cameroon
Albert Gouaffo is Full Professor of German literature and culture studies as well as intercultural communication at the University of Dschang, Cameroon
This video was produced as part of the joint project on reciprocal provenance research using the example of the Alexander Ecker Collection in Freiburg. Albert Gouaffo's speech on the occasion of the presentation of policy recommendations to the Ministry of Science, Research and the Arts (Baden-Württemberg) and to the Rector of the University of Freiburg was held in the anatomy room of the FRIAS, above the entrance door of which are the words “Mortui vivos docent” (the dead teach the living) - a motto that continues to inspire reflection on colonial violence and the collection of “human remains”.
"Restitution? - Towards a new paradigm"
(April 2022)
Prof. Albert Gouaffo - Université de Dschang, Cameroon
Albert Gouaffo is Full Professor of German literature and culture studies as well as intercultural communication at the University of Dschang, Cameroon
He figures as a member of advisory board of the ACT Reciprocal Provenance Research on the Alexander Ecker Collection. Currently, he’s working on « Mapping Cameroonian cultural goods in Germany » together with Bénédicte Savoy in the framework of the research project « Umgekehrte Sammlungsgeschichte » of the TU in Berlin. The aim of this research project is to find out where Cameroonian objects that are in German museums came from and what they have been used for over the past hundred years. The Cameroonian part of the team focuses on questions such as: What memories of the objects still exist locally? What forms of resistance there were against their transfer to the empire? And whether their return was demanded or not and why?
Publications
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Blog Joint Futures 13, Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik, October 2023 |
"Restitution als Chance zum Dialog zwischen 'Zentrum' und 'Peripherie'" Kokou Azamede & Andreas Mehler |
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WeltTrends - Das außenpolitische Journal, N. 179, September 2021 |
"Vom Rande aus betrachtet: Das Humboldt-Forum und die Restitutionsdebatte" In the current issue of WeltTrends, Wazi Apoh and Andreas Mehler write about the difficult restitution debate and the perception of the voices of the objects' countries of origin. (in German) |
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Freiburg Postkolonial, 21 October 2009 |
Other Publications
- Möller D. (2008) 'Die anthropologische Schädelsammlung Freiburg (Alexander-Ecker-Sammlung): Rekonstruktion von Herkunft und Erwerbungskontext der Schädel', MA Thesis (Historical Anthropology), Freiburg i.B.
- Kästner M., Ortolf S., Rüdell A., Möller D. and Wittwer-Backofen U. (2011) The Alexander Ecker Collection in Freiburg. In: Documenta Archaeobiologiae 8: 275-284.
- Möller D. (2013) 'Die Alexander-Ecker-Sammlung in Freiburg', in Stoecker et al. (eds), Sammeln, Erforschen, Zurückgeben? Menschliche Gebeine aus der Kolonialzeit in akademischen und musealen Sammlungen (Berlin), pp. 106-120.
- Wegmann H. (2013) 'Die Freiburger Alexander-Ecker-Sammlung, koloniales Schädelsammeln und der aktuelle Rückgabeprozess nach Namibia', in Stoecker et al. (eds), Sammeln, Erforschen, Zurückgeben? Menschliche Gebeine aus der Kolonialzeit in akademischen und musealen Sammlungen (Berlin), pp. 392-418.
- Wittwer-Backofen U., Kästner M., Möller D., Vohberger M. Lutz-Bonengel S. and Speck D. (2014) 'Ambiguous Provenance? Experience with Provenance Analysis of Human Remains from Namibia in the Alexander Ecker Collection', Anthropologischer Anzeiger. Journal of Biological and Clinical Anthropology, 71, 65-86.
- Möller D. (2015) Die Geschichte der anthropologischen Sammlung Freiburg. Entstehung, Zusammenfassung, Verlust (Marburg, Tectum Verlag).
- Engel F. and Schlager S. (2019) RDFBones – making research explicit: an extensible digital standard for research data. Anthropologischer Anzeiger, 76(3), 245–257. DOI: 10.1127/anthranz/2019/0882
- Koeßler R. (2018) Imperial skulduggery, science and the issue of provenance and restitution: the fate of Namibian skulls in the Alexander Ecker Collection in Freiburg, Human Remains and Violence, Volume 4 (2), pp. 27–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.7227/HRV.4.2.3
- Apoh W. and Mehler A. (2020) Issues of Restitution and Repatriation of Looted and Illegally Acquired African Objects in European Museum, Contemporary Journal of African Studies 2020; 7 (1): ix-xii.
- Apoh W. and Mehler A. (2020) Mainstreaming the Discourse on Restitution and Repatriation within African History, Heritage Studies and Political Science, Contemporary Journal of African Studies 2020; 7 (1): 1-16.
- Lamptey P. and Apoh W. (2020) The restitution debate and return of human remains: implications for bioarchaeological research and cultural ethics in Africa, Contemporary Journal of African Studies 2020; 7 (1): 97-115.
