[Re:]Entanglements

[Re:]Entanglements is a project which is re-engaging with a remarkable ethnographic archive – including objects, photographs, sound recordings, botanical specimens, published work and fieldnotes – assembled by the colonial anthropologist, N. W. Thomas, in Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone between 1909 and 1915. As well as better understanding the historical context in which these materials were gathered, the project seeks to re-think their significance in the present. What do they mean for different communities today? What actions do they make possible? How might we creatively explore their latent possibilities?

Lead Curator: Paul Basu

Exhibition Design: Alafuro Sikoki-Coleman

[Re:]Entanglements

The Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge, UK,

22 June 2021 - 17 April 2022