Workshop: “The Ethiopian Pillow” – Towards a New Cultural Mapping of Headrests
Headrests have been used for thousands of years in different regions around the world. Therefore, it is not surprising that they can be found in various shapes and sizes in many German ethnographic collections, many of which are from Ethiopia. There, headrests have not merely been functional objects, but have also held different symbolic and social meanings. On 24 June...