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MAA Digital Lab
The Digital Lab is a digital engagement project that seeks to increase the visibility and accessibility of the world cultures collections at the Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, Cambridge.
The project works with collections in the Museum’s care to explore objects, histories, and relationships through digital research, storytelling, and collaboration, creating forms of engagement that extend beyond the physical space of the Museum.
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Modernidad y Tradición a través de las Alasitas Andinas
Una alasita en forma de camión Toyota en miniatura, procedente de los Andes, revela cómo la práctica ritual, el paisaje y el capitalismo global se negocian a través de la cultura material indígena.
Evan Grandidge de Paz
14 April 2026
Modernity and Tradition through Andean Alasitas
A miniature Toyota truck alasita from the Andes reveals how ritual practice, landscape, and global capitalism are negotiated through Indigenous material culture.
Evan Grandidge de Paz
14 April 2026
Light as a feather, and just as fragile
A behind-the-scenes account of MAA’s Stores Move Project, exploring a Maasai ostrich feather headdress and the bespoke conservation methods used to pack, protect, and relocate the collections.
Katrina Dring
31 March 2026
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The Namboothiris and Nairs of 20th Century Kerala
Between 1901 and 1908, Indian anthropologist L. K. Ananthakrishna Iyer photographed the Namboothiri and Nair communities in Kerala for his two-volume text,
Cochin Tribes and Castes
. In this exhibition, Devaki brings those photographs into conversation with community knowledge and lived memory.
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Looking Back to the Future – Tony Phillips
Between 2021 and 2023, artist Tony Phillips worked with collections at MAA, producing prints that placed archaeological objects alongside contemporary consumer imagery. Katie Carter explores the tensions that emerged from these juxtapositions.
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From Eden to Ecocide: A Tale of Human Impact—Returning back to Eden from Ecocide with Enotie Ogbebor.
In this online exhibition, Katie Carter explores Enotie Ogbebor's painting From Eden to Ecocide: A Tale of Human Impact, placing it within the broader context of climate change and colonial legacies.
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