Pluralizing the Value of Things

近年来，德国和其他欧洲国家的民族志博物馆陷入了一场关于其收藏品殖民起源的争议性辩论。这场辩论--尽管它正确地将持续的殖民主义作为讨论的主题--倾向于系统地普遍化特定的价值制度，特别是资本主义财产和文化遗产。然而，我们认为，关于如何评价事物的概念必须从双重意义上多元化。首先，我们需要一个更连贯的理论和方法框架，以更好地理解创造价值的制度、体系和领域的多元性-关注土著和西方/殖民价值制度及其多重交叉点。其次，我们必须超越研究领域，以便将不同的价值观带入彼此的对话中。该网络将汇集10名人类学家和博物馆从业人员，使他们能够长期合作。目的是在价值人类学与超越区域方法的物质性和人格人类学新方法之间建立对话。在当前关于博物馆和殖民主义的讨论的背景下，该网络旨在发展非殖民化的方法，在多元价值体系的背景下重新思考物质性。

In recent years, ethnographic museums in Germany and other European countries have been engulfed in a controversial debate about the colonial provenance of their collections. This debate – as much as it rightly makes ongoing colonialism a topic of discussion – tends to systematically universalize specific regimes of value, particularly capitalist property and cultural heritage. We believe, however, that conceptions of how things are valued must be pluralized in a double sense. First, we need a more coherent theoretical and methodological framework to better understand the plurality of regimes, systems and spheres in which value is created – focusing on both indigenous and western/colonial value regimes and their multiple intersections. Second, we must think beyond research regions in order to bring different perspectives on value regimes into conversation with one another. This network will assemble a group of ten anthropologists and museum practitioners and enable them to work together over a longer period. The aim is to establish a dialogue between the anthropology of value and new approaches in the anthropology of materiality and personhood beyond regional approaches. Against the background of the current discussions on museums and colonialism, this network aims to develop decolonial approaches to rethink materiality in the context of a plurality of value regimes.