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Publication: "Material Culture in Transit. Theory and Practice"
Zainabu Jallo is the editor of the first in the Book Series, Routledge Studies in Anthropology and Museums. The collection of essays critically addresses the multivalent ways in which mobility reshapes the characteristics of artefacts, specifically under prevailing issues of representation and colonial liabilities.
About the book: Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice constellates curators and scholars actively working with material culture within academic and museal institutions through theory and practice. The rich collection of essays critically addresses the multivalent ways in which mobility reshapes the　characteristics of artefacts, specifically under prevailing issues of representation and colonial liabilities. The volumeattests to material culture as central to understanding the repercussions of problematic histories and proposes novel ways to address them. It offers valuable reading for scholars of anthropology, museum studies, history and others with an interest in material culture.
Jallo, Zainabu (ed). 2023. Material Culture in Transit: Theory and Practice. London: Routledge.
