[Re:]Entanglements

#[Re:]Entanglements re-entanglements.net Research project exploring the legacies of N. W. Thomas's anthropological surveys of #Nigeria and #SierraLeone #Anthropology

Great to see our latest exhibition [Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times in this month's @Apollo_magazine! @reentanglements 🗞️ Book your free tickets to the exhibition, open until 17 April 2022: tickets.museums.cam.ac.uk/overview/museu…

[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times exhibition opens today @MAACambridge #nigeria #sierraleone #anthropology #museums #northcotethomas

[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Time exhibition @MAACambridge 22 June 2021 to 17 April 2022. @reentanglements

[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Collections in Decolonial Times exhibition opening at Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology #reentanglements @MAACambridge

@OKWU_ID Hi @OKWU_ID - really love your recreations of the hairstyles photographed by N. W. Thomas in the early twentieth century. We have been working with @ukpuru on this collection as part of [Re:]Entanglements re-entanglements.net Would you like to write a blog about this?

One of the key reasons for our 100 Years of Igbo Beauty project was the celebration of hair. Afro hair is unique and amazing. Wearing your natural Afro hair is not a trend. It has been part of Igbo culture, expression and identity throughout our history. #100yearsofigbobeauty

Okwu ID would like to give a special shout out to @ukpuru who helped make #100YearsOfIgboBeauty a reality.

Some of the photos digitally colourised on Ụ́kpụ́rụ́ over the last year or so. The original black and white images are from the Northcote Thomas collection of the Royal Anthropological Institute and MAA Cambridge, working with the [Re:]Entanglements project.

[Re:]Entanglements project features in The Guardian online today - theguardian.com/artanddesign/g… @RoyalAnthro @SOAS @SOASanthro @MAACambridge #anthropology #colonialism #photography #nigeria #sierraleone

FACES | VOICES - Black History Month 2019 blackhistorymonth.org.uk/article/sectio…

@profdanhicks @Pitt_Rivers Hi Dan - any ideas what ‘Sierra Leone Camino’ is - last item on list?

Read our latest blog re-entanglements.net/creative-engag… - on #art #archive and #ethnography - #artists from #Nigeria and #sierraleone engage with #N.W.Thomas #archives and #collections

Paul Basu @SOAS presenting on Re-mobilising collections in times of decolonisation. Exploring challenges around redressing colonial presences and discussing return/repatriation/redress #CollectionsinCirculation

Guest blog by Jean Borgatti on Eliminya Festival masquerades, Otuo, North Edo, Nigeria - re-entanglements.net/otuo_masquerad… #Nigeria #art #Africa #africanart #northcotethomas #nwthomas #reentanglements #masquerade #heritage

Research with Northcote Thomas's #collections @MAACambridge - #museum artefacts meeting 100-year-old photographs of themselves! See re-entanglements.net/object-oriente… #africanart #anthropology #nigeria

Collections-based research with ethnographic artefacts collected by N. W. Thomas in Nigeria and Sierra Leone at Cambridge Museum of Archaeology & Anthropology - re-entanglements.net/rediscovering-… #Nigeria #Africa #AfricanArt #Museums #anthropology #NWThomas #MuseumAffordances

Northcote Thomas experimented with the use of panoramic #photography during his anthropological surveys in West Africa between 1909 and 1915. He also used two cameras to simultaneously photograph ceremonies from different angles. See re-entanglements.net/anthropologist…

Prof Paul Basu receiving blessings at the Imo Awka shrine in Awka, Anambra State, Nigeria. Paul is following the footsteps of the anthropologist N. W. Thomas in connection with his AHRC-funded project Museum Affordances. See re-entanglements.net. @reentanglements

Northcote Thomas - sound recording in the field. Photograph of Thomas's wax cylinder phonograph during a recording session at Agila, Benue State, Nigeria in June 1913. re-entanglements.net/sound-recording

Ethnographic still life photographs by Government Anthropologist, Northcote Thomas #benincity #nigeria #photography #art re-entanglements.net/n-w-thomas-acc…

Peripheral presences: N. W. Thomas’s field assistants - re-entanglements.net/peripheral-pre…