The roots for restitution. What can colonial museum collections mean for source communities in Northeast DRCongo?

Start - End 

2021 - 2025 (ongoing)

Type 

PhD research

Other institution(s) 

Royal Museum for Central Africa

Université de l'Uélé, DRCongo

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Abstract

To be completed. Start 1 July 2021

People

Supervisor(s)

Inge Brinkman

• Department of Languages and Cultures

• 20th Century
• Africa
• Angola/Namibia
• Autobiography
• Field research
• Gender
• History
• Kenya
• Language and text analysis
• Literary studies
• Monster Studies
• Oral narratives

Vicky Van Bockhaven

• Department of Languages and Cultures

• 19th Century
• 20th Century
• Africa
• Area studies
• Art
• Art history
• Comparative
• Critical museology
• Dutch
• English
• Ethnohistory
• Field research
• French
• History
• Iconography and analysis of images
• Material culture studies

Phd Student(s)

Félix Amand Fufulafu Zaniwe

• Department of Languages and Cultures

External(s)

Roger Gaise

Hein Vanhee

Department of Cultural Anthropology and History - Royal Museum for Central Africa

hein.vanhee@africamuseum.be