There is now also a small but very fine collection of papers, developed from presentations at the conference. Find the Boas Papers series we are now part of here, our edition as a PDF here.
Haeming, Anne (ed.) 2025: Imperial Lives. Biographic Approaches as Decolonial Practice. boasblogs papers 5. Bonn, Bremen, Cologne, Siegen: boasblogs. [open access]
Print-ISSN: 2698-6086
Online-ISSN: 2698-6094
DOI: 10.18716/bbp/5
Apart from an introduction about the conference and beyond by the editor, the collection is comprised of:
Marie Hoffmann:
“From ‘Traveler’ to Scientist. Rethinking the Biography of Alphonse Pinart in the Context of his Collecting Practices.”
[more about the author here]
Philipp Müller:
“In the Shadow of the Collector. The Collector and the Other in the Context of the Colonial Appropriation of ‘Ethnographica’.”
[more about the author here]
Vanessa Amoah Opoku:
“Moving Mountains / Berge versetzen. How the Artist Collective PARA Explores the History and Cultural Implications Surrounding a Stone from Mount Kilimanjaro, Brought to Germany by Hans Meyer in the Late 1880s.”
[more about the author here]
The Open Access publication was made possible thanks to the editors and organizers of the publishing collective Boasblogs, first and foremost due to the unrelenting organizational support from Ehler Voss (University of Bremen).
We are very happy and grateful that the collection is part of their series of editions focused on discussions in the anthropological sciences.