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Colonialism and Enslavement in a Bottle: Guiding People through an Exhibition in the German Historical Museum
Abstract:In the exhibition entitled "Europe and the Sea" at the German Historical Museum in Berlin, visitors were confronted with a modern bottle of Johannsen-brand rum that served to illuminate the transatlantic "slave trade" and the enslavement of Africans. The bottle, with an old map of the Caribbean on its label, was presented as a hands-on object. My contribution focuses on discussions between visitors and tour guides on the past and present effects of colonialism. All these conversations were triggered by the bottle, which created a post-colonial narrative between the other historical objects in that part of the exhibition and the everyday life of the visitors themselves.
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Narrative Culture is a new journal that conceptualizes narration as a broad and pervasive human practice, warranting a holistic perspective that grasps the place of narrative comparatively across time and space. The journal invites contributions that document, discuss and theorize narrative culture, and offers a platform that integrates approaches spread across various disciplines. The field of narrative culture thus outlined is defined by a large variety of forms of popular narratives, including not only oral and written texts, but also narratives in images, three-dimensional art, customs, rituals, drama, dance, music, and so forth. Narrative Culture is peer-reviewed and international as well as interdisciplinary in orientation.