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healing. Life in Balance

Alice Pawlik and Dr. Mona Suhrbier (eds.): 256 pages, Publisher: Kerber

Invisible Inventories. Questioning Kenyan Collections in Western Museums

Marian Nur Goni, Sam Hopkins (ed.): 86 pages, in German and English available at the Museum.
ISBN 978-3-947902-21-7 7,00

GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour coding worlds

Matthias Claudius Hofmann (ed.): 256 pages, edition in German and Englisch available. Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0750-8 (D), 978-3-7356-0751-5 (ENG) 29,90

DAS MUSEUM VERLERNEN? Kolonialität und Vermittlung in ethnologischen Museen (Unlearning the Museum? Coloniality and Education in Ethnological Museums)

Volume 1: Nora Landkammer: Eine Analyse gegenwärtiger Diskurse in einem konfliktreichen Praxisfeld (An Analysis of Contemporary Discourses in a Conflict-Ridden Practice)
Volume 2: Praxen und Reflexionen kritischer Bildung und Wissensproduktion (Practices of and Reflections on Critical Education and the Production of Knowledge) Edited by Stephanie Endter, Nora Landkammer, Karin Schneider
ISBN Band 1: 978-3-937624-71-6
ISBN Band 2: 978-3-937624-72-3

Vienna: Zaglossus, 2021
Order via: 24,95

BOUGHT. COLLECTED. LOOTED?

Historisches Museum Frankfurt (ed.): 90 pages, softcover, available in Germand and English at the museum. Editor: Heinrich Editionen, ISBN 978-3-96320-024-3 (G), 978-3-96320-028-1 (Eng) 9,95

GREY IS THE NEW PINK - Moments of Ageing

Alice Pawlik (ed.): ca. 240 pages, paper back, edition in German and Englisch available at the museum from October 2018. Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0491-0 (D), 978-3-7356-0492-7 (Eng) 29,90

ENTRE TERRA E MAR. Between Land and Sea. Transatlantic Art

Mona Suhrbier (ed.): 220 pages, bound, edition in German and Englisch available at the museum from November 2017.
Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0393-7 (D), 978-3-7356-0394-4 (ENG) 28,00

THE COMMON THREAD - The Warp and Weft of Thinking

Vanessa von Gliszczynski, Mona Suhrbier and Eva Ch. Raabe (ed.): 255 pages, numerous coloured illustrations, softcover with flaps, bound, Available in bookstores and at the Weltkulturen Museum, Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0268-8 29,95

A LABOUR OF LOVE.

Yvette Mutumba and Gabi Ngcobo. (Hg.): 336 pages, softcover with flaps, bound, numerous illustrations, facsimile and photographs, bi-lingual in one volume: German and English. Publisher: Kerber, ISBN 978-3-7356-0140-7 42,00

“Something about Africa” – Challenges Facing the Education at the Weltkulturen Museum

Stephanie Endter und Carolin Rothmund (ed.): 222 pages, numerous colour illustrations, facsimile and Photographs, softcover, Publisher: Kerber, ISBN 978-3-7356-0137-7 In German. 27,00

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GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS. Colour coding worlds

Matthias Claudius Hofmann (ed.): 256 pages, edition in German and Englisch available. Publisher: Kerber, ISBN: 978-3-7356-0750-8 (D), 978-3-7356-0751-5 (ENG)
€29,90

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GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS – it’s a confusing title … Isn’t the sky blue and the grass green? In old Japanese poems the sky is sometimes described as green while the grass is called blue because for a long time in Japan, as in many other cultures, no clear distinction was made between the two colours.

Although people share the same physiological capacity for sight, colours are not perceived identically all over the world. In various languages and cultures, colours are often categorised accor ding to very different criteria. Above all, colours are also associated with a wide range of societal and cosmological notions. Looking into the meanings of these different colour worlds allows us to see cultural contexts in a new light, and through this we can gain insights into other world views.

GREEN SKY, BLUE GRASS examines the phenomenon of colour from various perspectives, including interdisciplinary approaches. Ethnological case studies from New Guinea, Polynesia, Tibet, Java, Central and West Africa as well as the Amazon region enter into a discourse with essays on philosophy, linguistics and physics.

The book features scholarly contributions from authors such as Tomi Bartole, Eystein Dahl, Roger Erb, Brigitta Hauser-Schäublin, Arno Holl, Eric Huntington, Olaf L. Müller, Gustaaf Verswijver, as well as an interview with René Fuerst conducted by Chantal Courtois.

Editor
Matthias Claudius Hofmann
Editorial team
Vanessa von Gliszczynski, Oliver Hahn, Matthias Claudius Hofmann, Arno Holl
Design
U9 visuelle Allianz GmbH
ISBN
ISBN: 978-3-7356-0750-8 (D), 978-3-7356-0751-5 (ENG)
Publisher
Kerber Verlag, Bielefeld/Berlin
Overall production and distribution
Kerber Verlag,
Bielefeld Windelsbleicher Str. 166–170
33659 Bielefeld,
Germany
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Fax +49 (0) 5 21/9 50 08-88

Kerber, US Distribution
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New York, NY 10013
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Details
256 pages, numerous colored illustrations, softcover, 16,8 x 23 cm

Available in bookstores for 29,90€