Isabel Bredenbröker

Forthcoming

(2023) Bredenbröker, Isabel. Queering Alfred Gell’s Art Nexus - Making non-normative relations in the ethnological museum context. Ikonotheka, Special Issue: Queer Heritage - Central Europe and Beyond. Warsaw: Warsaw UP.

(9 January 2024) Bredenbröker, Isabel. “Advertising the Ancestors: Ghanaian Funeral Banners as Image Objects.” In Death's Social and Material Meaning Beyond the Human. Edited by Natashe Lemos Dekker, Philip R. Olson and Jesse D. Peterson. 1st ed. Bristol: Bristol University Press.

(11 May 2024) Bredenbröker, Isabel, and Tajinder Kaur. “Giving, Taking and Receiving Care: Dis_ability and Fieldwork.” In Inclusive Ethnography: Making Fieldwork Safer, Healthier and More Ethical. Edited by Branwen Spector and Caitlin Procter. New York: SAGE PUBLICATIONS.

(13 June 2024) Bredenbröker, Isabel. Rest in Plastic: Death, Time and Synthetic Materials, in a Ghanaian Ewe Community. Oxford: Berghahn

(2024) Bredenbröker, Isabel. "'Plastic stays beautiful': Attributing temporal and moral qualities in Ghanaian Ewe funerary contexts", Journal of Material Culture.

Published

(2021) "Das Schlimmste für mich ist, wenn der Hund Junkiescheiße frisst..." Über meine Love Hate Beziehung zum Görlitzer Park, Racial Profiling und Ethnographie vor der eigenen Haustür. In: <Doku.Argu.Experi.Pig>, Eds. Clara Bausch and Sara Lehn. Catalogue accompanying the exhibition <Doku.Argu.Experi.Pig>, Berlin: Published by the editors.

(2021) Bredenbröker I; Stiegler A; Schürmann LB. This house is not a home: Producing encounter-based collective formats in the time of COVID-19. The Garage Journal: Studies in Art, Museums & Culture, 02: 132-151. DOI: 10.35074/GJ.2021.79.74.007

(2020) Cleaning and Value. Interdisciplinary Perspectives. Eds. Isabel Bredenbröker, Christina Hanzen, Felix Kotzur. Leiden: Sidestone Press

Paper: The last bath: Cleaning practices and the production of ‘good death’ in an Ewe town
with Christina Hanzen and Felix Kotzur: We have never been clean. Towards an interdisciplinary discourse about cleaning and value

(2020). On death, time, and moving images. Suomen Antropologi: Journal of the Finnish Anthropological Society, 44(3-4), 59-62. https://doi.org/10.30676/jfas.v44i3-4.90734

(2020) Bredenbröker, I., & Bergmann, P. Now I Am Dead. Journal of Anthropological Films, 4(01). https://doi.org/10.15845/jaf.v4i01.2874

(2018) Tote leben länger oder über die Forschung zum Umgang mit Tod in einer südghanaischen Kleinstadt. In: Charlotte Trümpler, Hans Peter Hahn et. al. Faszination der Dinge. Werte weltweit in Archäologie und Ethnologie. Peteresburg Kreis Fulda: Michael Imhof Verlag

(2018) with Angela Stiegler, Sarah Lehnerer, Lennart Boyd Schürmann, Felix Leon Westner. Letters to K. Self-Published. Paper copy in selected bookshops, open access at www.kyhybrid.com

(2016) with Anais Bloch, Adam Drazin, Robert Knowles:

Cleaning Up after Gropius. Eine Ethnografie des Schmutzes. In: Bittner, Regina (Ed.). Auf Reserve: Haushalten. Historische Modelle und aktuelle Positionen aus dem Bauhaus. Leipzig: Spector Books.

Collaboratively Cleaning, Archiving and Curating the Heritage of the Future. In: Smith, Rachel Charlotte et. al. Design Anthropological Futures. London: Bloomsbury.

(2015)  Nike Arnold – Im Zentrum des visuellen Archivs. In: 25 Karat – Goldrausch 2015. Ausstellung im Studio 1 Kunstquartier Bethanien vom 10.-25. Oktober. Goldrausch Künstlerinnenprojekt: Berlin.

(2013)  Individuelle Mythologie: Objekt, Bild und Schrift in Werken von Tracey Emin (2013). open access online publication via Free University Berlin repository:
diss.fu-berlin.de/docs/receive/FUDOCS_document_000000019205