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Heritage out of Control: Disturbing Heritage

January, 2022 / By Birgit Meyer

Disturbing Heritage The past is present through its lasting material forms, in open and hidden ways, marked and unmarked. Whether […]

January, 2022 / By Çiçek İlengiz

“Muslims go to Mecca once, if they are not unnecessarily wealthy (laughing), but people of all kinds come to visit

January, 2022 / By Adeline Masquelier

In December 2017, Toungouma was stolen, the famed stone said to render justice in the Département of Dogondoutchi, Niger. When

January, 2022 / By Eva Ambos

The sun had already set when the night-long live broadcast of a kohoḿbā kankāriya ritual in a Sri Lankan town

January, 2022 / By Mariam Goshadze

Religion as Heritage in Ghana In 2009, Ghana celebrated its 52nd birthday as an independent country with the usual pomp

Contested mystical heritage in Pemba, Zanzibar On the island of Pemba, off the coast of Tanzania, jinns play a key

January, 2022 / By Paulina Kolata

Inherited Buddhist objects and their associated ritual care connect the dead with the living. Buddhist things are not only material.

January, 2022 / By Annika Kirbis

Since the early 2000s, coinciding with the 40th anniversary of the recruitment agreement between Austria and Turkey in 1964, there have

January, 2022 / By Natalia Kucirkova

All achievement is threatened by the machine, as long as it dares to take its place in the mind,

January, 2022 / By Bushra Punjabi

This piece offers an ‘inside-out’ perspective on everyday life in a militarized space. As a researcher and a Kashmiri, the