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Kockelkorn, Max (2024)

Changing perspectives, the narrative of an object: Provenance research on object TM-5074-2, Ashaninka Hood from the Rio Ene Valley, from the collection of the Wereldmuseum Amsterdam

Master thesis | Archaeology (MA/MSc)

Context is important for the sake of understanding. This is especially important for museums in order to become a space that benefits societies and contributes to questions and challenges posed by the modern world. The importance of teaching people about other cultures is to make them understand each other and where in their differences they are alike. Where ignorance stands at the base of indifference and conflict, conversance can instigate understanding and respect. This thesis is centred around an object from the collection of the Wereldmuseum in Amsterdam; a hood made by the Ashaninka of the Rio Ene valley on the eastern slopes of the Peruvian Andean mountains. The research aims on the one hand to understand the object and its original context, which includes a species identification of the floral and faunal species represented on the object. On the other hand this research aims at understanding the object’s museal history and the role of the museum in provenance related questions.

provenance research

Ashaninka

ethno botany

species identification

decolonisation

museumstudies

Peru

Author

Kockelkorn, Max

Faculty

Faculty of Archaeology

Specialisation

Heritage and Museumstudies

Supervisors

M.E. Berger

ECTS Credits

20

Language

en