[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Anthropology and its Archival Legacies in the Present. Prof. Paul Basu

Professor Paul Basu, Featured speaker at the 7th Annual International Igbo conference on 21st April 2018.
His talk was titled '[Re:]Entanglements: Colonial Anthropology and its Archival Legacies in the Present'. Prof Basu is the head of a project called [Re:]Entanglements, which re-engages with a remarkable ethnographic archive assembled by the colonial anthropologist N. W. Thomas, in Southern Nigeria and Sierra Leone between 1909 and 1915.
.The Igbo conference theme for 2018 was Memory, Culture and Community : Remembering the Past, Imagining the future.
The 2018 Igbo conference provided a platform to discuss Igbo heritage studies and modes of documenting the past including how Igbo people can start documenting their own personal histories and archives.
The ‘Memory, Culture and Community’ conference is the seventh edition of the annual international Igbo Conference, which has taken place at SOAS, University of London since its beginnings in 2012.
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