This paper examines how node three national museums in Germany are dealing with colonial objects in their spaces. It also explores the German government’s recent rapprochement with scholars in its ex‐colonies on how to deal with its colonial past within a discourse of evidence and sankofatization. Sankofatization is defined as a Ghanaian‐Akan ideology that signifies the selection of past ideas for retention within a type of renaissance paradigm. In December 2015, the German Federal Foreign Office invited delegates from Togo, Ghana, Namibia, Tanzania, and Cameroon to take part in a unique program dubbed “A Themed Tour of German Colonial History.” Reporting on this tour, the paper assesses the activism of German civic organizations and museums in their ongoing attempts to decolonize colonial cityscapes, street names, and exhibits. But this discussion is much more than an ethnographic report. The implications of this rapprochement policy for discourses on the archaeology of German colonialism and the anthropology of colonial museums denote significant changes in transnational cooperation. Overall, the themed tour recalled that silencing of negative past experiences and past misdeeds is never permanent. Generational change often influences a renaissance, or sankofatization, of past realities to serve emerging postcolonial needs.

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社会化与非殖民化：德国博物馆与政府在殖民对象与后殖民主义下的崩溃

本文研究了德国三个国家博物馆如何处理其空间中的殖民地物体。它还探讨了德国政府最近与前殖民者学者之间的和解，内容涉及如何通过证据和分类法来处理其过去的殖民时期。Sankofatization被定义为加纳－阿坎族的意识形态，它表示选择过去的想法以保留在一种文艺复兴范式中。2015年12月，德国联邦外交部邀请来自多哥，加纳，纳米比亚，坦桑尼亚和喀麦隆的代表参加了一项独特的计划，名为“德国殖民历史主题之旅”。在这次旅行的报道中，论文评估了德国公民组织和博物馆在非殖民化城市景观，街道名称和展览品方面正在进行的尝试的积极性。但是，这一讨论不仅仅只是一份民族志报告。这一和解政策对德国殖民主义考古学和殖民博物馆人类学的论述具有深远的意义，这表明跨国合作发生了重大变化。总的来说，主题巡回赛回想起消极的消极过去经历和过去的恶行永远不会永久存在。代际变化通常会影响过去现实的复兴或衰落，以适应新兴的后殖民需求。主题巡回赛回顾说，消极消极的过去经历和过去的过错永远不会永久存在。代际变化通常会影响过去现实的复兴或衰落，以适应新兴的后殖民需求。主题巡回赛回顾说，消极消极的过去经历和过去的过错永远不会永久存在。代际变化通常会影响过去现实的复兴或衰落，以适应新兴的后殖民需求。