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This project situates Museums of Ethnography and World Cultures at the centre of ongoing discussions about citizenship and belonging in contemporary Europe. Migrations and contemporary trans-border movements within the European Union have refigured the demography and citizenry of European nation states. Within this framework also the role of these museums with their rich collections cataloguing th ...

The word "Carnival" refers today to a whole galaxy of often very diverse ritual events which still engage at the end of winter a large number of European individuals and communities. Yet if we scratch just under the surface, in European carnivals there appears to be some striking similarities of themes, characters and situations, so that mummers girdled by cowbells; harlequins wearing high conical ...