Anthropology Archiving Heritage 
Sapiens
DECEMBER 4, 2024
Read more from the archives: “ Repatriation Has Transformed, Not Ended, Research.” Through these forces, colonized communities were often deprived of the opportunity to engage with their own heritage in ways that align with their values and self-determination. However, not all these acquisitions necessarily warrant repatriation.
Anthropology News
MARCH 27, 2025
Open-access sites like Annas Archive challenge these barriers, much like underground migration networks, offering access but risking legal suppression. Even open-knowledge projects like the Internet Archive s Wayback Machine face legal threats, echoing the way public records and historical narratives are censored.
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Anthropology for Beginners
SEPTEMBER 27, 2021
Heritage studies constitute a developing field, where it is realized that the world’s cultural heritage is a diminishing resource, and one which holds different meanings for different people. Different state archaeology departments also actively engage themselves in declaring certain archaeologically important artefact as heritage.
Anthropology News
JANUARY 24, 2024
We hope that “å falle mellom to stoler”—which includes a physical exhibition with sculptures created by Jelsen and two publications (one forthcoming) featuring archival images, interviews, and critical essays by collaborators—can contribute to this vital work. Organizations like ours cannot, and should not simply stop existing.
Sapiens
APRIL 2, 2025
A Tanzanian historian and poet conjures alternative engagements with Black African women who were marginalized by violent colonial histories and imprisoned in the archives. For, I work extensively on Tanzanian heritage and human remains entrapped in Germany. These questions, among others, propelled me during my residency.
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