Duet for cannibals
Subtitle: forms of cultural appropriation
By: Inti Guerrero (ed.).
Contributors: Koninklijk Instituut voor de Tropen
Publisher: JAP SAM Books
Published: 2010
Place of publication: Heyningen
Language: eng
Number of pages: 80
ISBN-13: 9789490322212
Subjects: Ethnology in art; Exhibitions; Colonies in art; Cannibalism in art; Culture in art; Ethnographic films
Description: Summary: "Duet for cannibals: forms of cultural appropriation" is a publication based on a screening and discussion program bringing together a selection of works by contemporary artists and filmmakers as well as footage from the archive of the Tropenmuseum in Amsterdam. The title "Duet for cannibals" is borrowed from a 1969 film directed by American author and critic Susan Sontag. Anthropologic and ethnographic institutions in European colonial power centres, like the former Colonial Institute of Amsterdam (nowadays the Royal Tropical Institute), were founded to study and exhibit the cultures of 'overseas people'. Their role was to appropriate, classify, and display cultural artifacts and sometimes even human beings.
Notes: "Agentur."

"Duet for cannibals--January 15, February 18, March 31, April 28, 2010, Films, videos & talks at the Tropentheater, Royal Tropical Institute of Amsterdam."--Colophon.

Includes bibliographical references.