MEG AGM Minutes
This page contains links to pdf versions of the minutes taken at the Annual General Meeting of the Museum Ethnographers Group. Click on the links below to view or download each pdf
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Review of Tantra: enlightenment to revolution British Museum (24 Sept 2020 - 24 Jan 2021) By Kajal Meghani
Tantra: enlightenment to revolution at the British Museum seeks to demystify Tantric philosophy. Curated by Dr Imma Ramos, the exhibition challenges the visitor to rethink any preconceived notions they have of Tantra, which is often misunderstood as a hedonistic sexual practice. Rather, as the exhibition explains, Tantra is a collection of instructional sacred texts that are written as a dialogue between gods and goddesses....
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en/counter/points survey on toolkits - help sought!
Helen Mears, a researcher at Newcastle University is working on a project which considers the relationship between public space and belonging The en/counter/points project, funded by HERA, is developing a toolkit to support museum practitioners wishing to explore issues of belonging. Before developing the new resource, they would like to assess the extent to which museum and heritage practitioners use existing online toolkits and...