Reconnecting the Pitt Rivers Museum's Zande collections with their historical and contemporary contexts in South Sudan.

该研究项目将集中在皮特河博物馆的一个主要的、多线索的人类学田野调查藏品上，这些藏品是由e.e.埃文斯-普里查德在1926年至1930年间在南苏丹的阿赞德兰形成的。埃文斯-普里查德的野外工作为他对阿赞德巫术、神谕和魔法的开创性研究提供了基础。该项目将探索藏品的各种元素——物品、照片、文本和录音——它们彼此之间的关系，以及与阿赞德地区有关或来自阿赞德地区的其他材料的关系，以便更好地了解埃文斯-普里查德收集这些物品的历史背景，以及它们对阿赞德人民和南苏丹新国家的当代意义。在这个过程中，它也将推进理论和方法论的方法来研究和使用民族志博物馆藏品及其历史和当代的共鸣。该项目旨在利用这一实地调查收集(1)来研究20世纪20年代苏丹西南部的历史背景，尽管这一时期和地区在殖民经济和政府统治下发生了重大变化，但之前对其进行了很少的详细研究；(2)在收集材料的地方层面（以及人们认为与之有家族联系的地方），以及在南苏丹等新国家创造文化和教育资源的更广泛层面，探索这些藏品的当代意义和意义；(3)推进在历史研究和文化遗产工作中使用民族志收藏的理论和方法方法。这些目标将通过一系列相互关联的目标来实现：(i)通过将物品与人类学和历史文献以及其他档案和博物馆藏品联系起来，扩大博物馆对其自身材料的理解；（ii）识别并与阿赞德人就这些藏品的当代意义进行合作，并展示这些材料和这些回应；（iii）将Evans-Pritchard的手稿收藏数字化，并将其放在博物馆的网站上，实现远程参与；（四）与在南苏丹工作的国际机构及其代表（如联合国教科文组织）合作，在教育和遗产项目中使用藏品。该项目将包括对阿赞德藏品的学术分析、实际的策展和数字化工作，以及一段时间的实地考察，与南苏丹的阿赞德社区和国际侨民进行接触，包括采访、会议和展览。这项研究将有助于博物馆了解其藏品在国家建设、教育和文化复兴方面的潜力。该学生将接受人类学、教育、历史和档案研究方法方面的培训，这些方法将跨越既定的研究界限，并有助于推动民族志博物馆下一阶段的收藏研究。

The research project will focus on a major, multi-stranded anthropological fieldwork collection at the Pitt Rivers Museum, formed by E. E. Evans-Pritchard in Zandeland, South Sudan, between 1926 and 1930. Evans-Pritchard's fieldwork provided the basis for, among other publications, his ground-breaking study of Zande witchcraft, oracles and magic. The project will explore the various elements of the collection - objects, photographs, texts and recordings - in relation to one another and to other materials about or from the Zande area, in order to better understand the historical contexts in which they were gathered by Evans-Pritchard, and their contemporary significance for the Zande people and for the new state of South Sudan. In the process it will also advance theoretical and methodological approaches to the study and use of ethnographic museum collections and their historical and contemporary resonances. The project aims to use this fieldwork collection (1) to examine the historical context of 1920s southwest Sudan, a period and region which has been studied in little detail previously despite being a time of major change under the colonial economy and government; (2) to explore the contemporary meaning and significance of the collections at both the local level where the material was collected - and where people have named familial connections to it - and at the broader level of the creation of cultural and educational resources in a new nation such as South Sudan; and (3) to advance theoretical and methodological approaches to the use of ethnographic collections in historical research and in cultural heritage work. These aims will be accomplished by a series of interlinked objectives: (i) to extend the museum's understanding of its own material by connecting objects to the anthropological and historical literature and to other archival and museum collections; (ii) to identify and work with Zande people on the contemporary meanings of such collections and to exhibit the material and those responses; (iii) to digitize Evans-Pritchard's manuscript collection and make it available on the museum's website, enabling remote engagement; (iv) to work with international agencies and their representatives working in South Sudan (eg UNESCO) on the use of collections in educational and heritage projects. The project will involve both academic analysis of the Zande collections and practical curatorial and digitisation work on them, as well as a period of fieldwork to engage with Zande communities in South Sudan and the international diaspora, involving interviews, meetings and exhibitions. The research will help the museum understand the potential of its collections for nation building, education and cultural revival. The student will be trained in anthropological, educational, historical and archival research methods, which cut across established research boundaries and which will help drive the next phase of collections research in ethnographic museums.