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How to negotiate revenue-sharing with diasporic makers without turning craft into commodity?

When I first started working with diasporic makers—artists and craft practitioners who had migrated or whose families had moved across borders—I was eager, idealistic and, frankly, inexperienced. I believed that connecting their work to new markets would be an uncomplicated win: makers would...

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How to negotiate revenue-sharing with diasporic makers without turning craft into commodity?

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What practical steps should museums take when display loans include living sacred regalia? Heritage

What practical steps should museums take when display loans include living sacred regalia?

When a museum agrees to display living sacred regalia on loan, it is taking on...

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What governance model lets a Lagos textile cooperative export ase threads while protecting ritual authorship? Heritage

What governance model lets a Lagos textile cooperative export ase threads while protecting ritual authorship?

I remember the first time I held an ase thread in my hand — a slender,...

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How can community-led provenance audits stop looted objects reaching major auction houses? Heritage

How can community-led provenance audits stop looted objects reaching major auction houses?

I’ve watched, too many times, an object with a fraught past slip through the...

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Can a diaspora-run sound archive restitute stolen songs without erasing performers’ rights? Heritage

Can a diaspora-run sound archive restitute stolen songs without erasing performers’ rights?

I remember the first time I sat in a cramped apartment in London listening to...

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