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Lagos, Nigeria; a site of the circulation of people, commodities, and culture during the long nineteenth century. How did this locality change in the context of the trade in enslaved people, abolition, and the imposition of colonial rule? How did the development of a lucrative trade in vegetable oil

Steven, in response to your chat about the disembodiment of objects in museums from the ritual practices of which they sometimes formed a part and the simultaneous discussion of narratives and their limits, I found myself thinking about the way that anthropologists, art historians, musicologists, a

After previewing the commissioned sound work As Gaeilge Time and Space, a picture that depicts a journey of searching and re-searching the identity of Irish emerges in my mind. While reading Linda’s note and listening to this sound work, I find the journey of searching the Irish identity is highly c

In the 19th century, port cities served as entrepôts between Mediterranean consumers and a variety of goods produced in the West. In his recently-published book, Port Cities of the Eastern Mediterranean: Urban Culture in the Late Ottoman Empire, (CUP 2020) Malte Fuhrmann addresses beer, a beverage t

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This tange,or boat beak, once adorned a large canoe, manoeuvred by up to 60 paddlers, in Duala, part of today’s Cameroon. It was part of an intricate display of power and prestige mediating commercial and political relationships in the port city. In late nineteenth-century Berlin, the tange bec

Want to speak on Hastinapur in the programme. Kindly allow. Regards

A little memento from our time at the Pitt Rivers Museum - how tasting and smelling are shaped by the mobility stemming from colonial ports. Look at the brass fattening bowl; made in Birmingham, it travelled by sea and was decorated in Nigeria, to be eventually brought back to the UK by Scottish mis

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