This publication has been produced for the exhibition Fetish Modernity, organised as part of the European project ‘Ethnography Museums & World Cultures'. The exhibition will be presented in Tervuren from 8 April to 4 September 2011 and will travel to five partner museums until 2014.

Lead Museum: Royal Museum for Central Africa (Belgium).

Partner Museums: Musée du quai Branly (France), Pitt Rivers Museum (England), Müseum für Völkerkunde (Austria), National Museums of World Culture (Sweden), National Museum of Ethnology (Museum Volkenkunde) (Netherlands), Museo de America (Spain), Naprstek Museum of Asian, African and American Cultures (Czech Republic), National Museum of Prehistory and Ethnography "L.Pigorini" (Italy), Linden-Museum Stuttgart (Germany).

Associate Partners: Musée d'Ethnographie de Genève (Switzerland), The Minneapolis Institute of Arts (USA), Diaspora Association Plus au Sud (Belgium), La Cambre-ISACF (Belgium).





CONTENTS

Preface G. GRYSEELS

Introduction A-M. BOUTTIAUX

CRISE DE NÈGRE _ PITCHO

1.o CLICHÉ FACTORY

Ethnography Museums, Diasporas and Modernity : What's at Stake _ K. NDIAYE

Doxology : For a Contemporary Protagoreanism _ M. ROSENGREN

Shifts of Modernity and Contemporary Ethnographic Museums _ V. LATTANZI

2.o MADE IN...

Collections and Encounters – Glimpses of Melanesian Entrepreneurs _ I. HEERMANN

Modernity ? It's the Economy, Stupid ! Business as a Catalyst for Encounters, Contact and Production_ S. KONNIGER, A. G E U R D S , L. VAN BROEKHOVEN, F. WONU VEYS

Modernity in Transit and Museums _ E. DELGADO CORRAL

3.o MODERNITY: BETWEEN DISCOURSE AND PRACTICE

Notes on Vodun Imagery in Southern Benin : Observing an African Religious Modernity _ J. NORET

Modernity and Religion : Habemusne Pontificem Maximum Novum ? _ C. SCHICKLGRUBER

3.1 Mystic Village

3.2 Beyond appearances

4.o DESIRE FOR MODERNITY

Modernity as ‘Object' of Desire _ A. SEIDERER

Asante Goes Italian : Global Inspiration or Appropriation of Intellectual Property ? _ W. ÖSTBERG

Consuming Shields _ M. O'HANLON

Another Drum Time, Another Audience _ H. WAHLQVIST

The Porosity of Objects _ A-M. BOUTTIAUX

Plastic Straw Headdresses among the Kayapo Indians _ G. VERSWIJVER

4.1 Stylizing

4.2 Representing

4.3 Reinventing

4.4 Diverting

5.o GLUTTONOUS MODERNITY

Myths of Globalization : Myths of Modernity _ L. GUSTAFSSON REINIUS

The Long Forgotten Shirt : A Trace of Colonial Fashion, Correction and Conquest_ L. GUSTAFSSON REINIUS

The Rush for Mineral Resources : Trancending Imposed Modernity in Africa_ L. ANDRÉ, M. FERNANDEZ AND J-F. MUPANDE

Escaleras de servicio (‘Service Stairs') _ A. MUÑOZ

Creoleness and Creolizations as New Ethics and Poetics of Museography _ L. RINÇON

6.o CHIC & CHEAP SHOPS

BIOGRAPHIES

BIBLIOGRAPHY

AKNOWLEDGEMENTS