Thea Skaanes

Thea Skaanes
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Doctor of Philosophy

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Introduction
Contact me if you are interested in carrying out research on African collections or research on matters relating to Africa with our museum in Gothenburg. I am currently engaged as head of content for 'Existens', a permanent exhibition for 13-25 year olds; together with great colleagues I am developing policies on active collecting procedures; and I am working my way into knowing the collections. Hopefully, I will be able to continue the work with the creation of a Hadza owned museum.
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January 2008 - October 2020
Moesgaard Museum
Position
  • PhD Curator Anthropologist
Description
  • The UNESCO collections are 28 ethnographic dispatch collections that communicate anthropological research nationally directly to the wider public through a multi-modal assemblage centred around ethnographic artefacts. Roles: Curation, Research, Management, Education, Collaboration, Communication Distinctions: • In 2017 the UNESCO Collections received the Danish Ethnographic Association’s prize for outstanding research communication. • Part of UNESCO national strategy for 2019-22

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Publications (9)
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This article concerns Hadza cosmology examined through objects, rituals and the Hadza concept of epeme. A brief background to the Hadza and the fieldwork that informs this study is followed by a close analysis of three key objects that are central to the argument presented. The objects are intimately linked to women and to aspects of the social and...
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Thea Skaanes worked with Hadza in northern Tanzania. She takes us to three specific material objects – what she calls power objects – belonging to individual Hadza women. She argues that these objects cannot be assessed adequately within a discourse of property and socio-economic value. Instead, she reveals how these objects are materializations of...
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Hunted meat is a cherished food for both bellies and thought among the hunting and gathering Hadza. It is festive, celebrated, and in poetics, it is metaphorically associated with sex. Like sex, it is both ordinary, mundane yet also celebrated and extraordinary. Unfolding big game hunt and meat-sharing among the Hadza, we find aspects of esotericis...
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I kødet ligger de største tabuer i antropologien: man må ikke ligge med sit eget kød (incestforbud), og man må ikke spise sit eget kød (kannibalisme). Navnkundige tænkere i antropologien som Claude Lévi-Strauss og Marshall Sahlins anfører i deres analyser om tabuer, at der er god grund til, at disse opstod. det kræver markante tiltag, hvis det at k...
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Mobiltelefonen er det mest udbredte medie i verden. Ifølge guardian.co.uk (http://www.guardian.co.uk/technology/2009/mar/03/mobile‐phones1) var antallet af mobiltelefoner i begyndelsen af 2009 oppe på 4,1 milliarder. Til sammenligning viser en opgørelse fra markedsanalyse instituttet Experian at der i 2007 var 850 millioner personlige computere, 1,...

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