Tribing and Untribing the Archive: Preface

Tribing and Untribing the Archive: Preface
Author: Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Art
ISBN: 9781869143374

Tracks how the domain of the tribal and traditional was marked out and came to be sharply distinguished from modernity, how it was denied a changing history and an archive and was endowed instead with a timeless culture. This volume also offers strategies for engaging with the materials differently.

Tribing and Untribing the Archive: Preface

Tribing and Untribing the Archive: Preface
Author: Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Total Pages: 340
Release: 2016
Genre: Archives
ISBN:

Tracks how the domain of the tribal and traditional was marked out and came to be sharply distinguished from modernity, how it was denied a changing history and an archive and was endowed instead with a timeless culture. This volume also offers strategies for engaging with the materials differently.

Tribing and Untribing the Archive

Tribing and Untribing the Archive
Author: Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher: University of Kwazulu Natal Press
Total Pages: 0
Release: 2016
Genre: Material culture
ISBN: 9781869143398

Tracks how the domain of the tribal and traditional was marked out and came to be sharply distinguished from modernity, how it was denied a changing history and an archive and was endowed instead with a timeless culture. These volumes also offer strategies for engaging with the materials differently.

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies

The Bloomsbury Handbook of Sonic Methodologies
Author: Michael Bull
Publisher: Bloomsbury Publishing USA
Total Pages: 896
Release: 2020-12-10
Genre: Music
ISBN: 1501338773

The field of Sound Studies has changed and developed dramatically over the last two decades involving a vast and dizzying array of work produced by those working in the arts, social sciences and sciences. The study of sound is inherently interdisciplinary and is undertaken both by those who specialize in sound and by others who wish to include sound as an intrinsic and indispensable element in their research. This is the first resource to provide a wide ranging, cross-cultural and interdisciplinary investigation and analysis of the ways in which researchers use a broad range of methodologies in order to pursue their sonic investigations. It brings together 49 specially commissioned chapters that ask a wide range of questions including; how can sound be used in current academic disciplines? Is sound as a methodological tool indispensable for Sound Studies and what can sound artists contribute to the discourse on methodology in Sound Studies? The editors also present 3 original chapters that work as provocative 'sonic methodological interventions' prefacing the 3 sections of the book.

Archives of Times Past

Archives of Times Past
Author: Cynthia Kros
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 326
Release: 2022-02-01
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1776147308

This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that historically have been used to tell southern Africa’s pre-colonial story.

Ghosts of Archive

Ghosts of Archive
Author: Verne Harris
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 159
Release: 2020-12-21
Genre: Language Arts & Disciplines
ISBN: 1000298655

Ghosts of Archive draws on the discourses of deconstruction, intersectionality and archetypal psychology to mount an argument that archive is fundamentally and structurally spectral and that the work of archive is justice. Drawing on more than 20 years of the author’s research on deconstruction and archive, the book posits archive as an essential resource for social justice activism and as a source, or location, of soul for individuals and communities. Through explorations of what Jacques Derrida termed ‘hauntology’, Harris invites a listening to the call for justice in conceptual spaces that are non-disciplinary. He argues that archive is both constructed in relation to and beset by ghosts – ghosts of the living, of the dead and of those not yet born – and that attention should be paid to them. Establishing a unique nexus between a deconstructive intersectionality and traditions of ‘memory for justice’ in struggles against oppression from South Africa and elsewhere, the book makes a case for a deconstructive praxis in today’s archive. Offering new ideas about spectrality, banditry and archival activism, Ghosts of Archive should appeal to those working in the disciplines of archival science, information studies and psychology. It should also be essential reading for those with an interest in social justice issues, transitional justice, history, philosophy, memory studies and postcolonial studies.

A Place That Matters Yet

A Place That Matters Yet
Author: Sara Byala
Publisher: University of Chicago Press
Total Pages: 343
Release: 2013-06-15
Genre: History
ISBN: 022603044X

A Place That Matters Yet unearths the little-known story of Johannesburg’s MuseumAfrica, a South African history museum that embodies one of the most dynamic and fraught stories of colonialism and postcolonialism, its life spanning the eras before, during, and after apartheid. Sara Byala, in examining this story, sheds new light not only on racism and its institutionalization in South Africa but also on the problems facing any museum that is charged with navigating colonial history from a postcolonial perspective. Drawing on thirty years of personal letters and public writings by museum founder John Gubbins, Byala paints a picture of a uniquely progressive colonist, focusing on his philosophical notion of “three-dimensional thinking,” which aimed to transcend binaries and thus—quite explicitly—racism. Unfortunately, Gubbins died within weeks of the museum’s opening, and his hopes would go unrealized as the museum fell in line with emergent apartheid politics. Following the museum through this transformation and on to its 1994 reconfiguration as a post-apartheid institution, Byala showcases it as a rich—and problematic—archive of both material culture and the ideas that surround that culture, arguing for its continued importance in the establishment of a unified South Africa.

Foundational African Writers

Foundational African Writers
Author: Bhekizizwe Peterson
Publisher: NYU Press
Total Pages: 472
Release: 2022-06
Genre: Literary Criticism
ISBN: 1776147510

The essays in this collection were written in celebration of the centenaries, in 2019, of Peter Abrahams, Noni Jabavu, Sibusiso Cyril Lincoln Nyembezi and Es'kia Mphahlele, all of whom were born in 1919. All four centenarians lived rich and diverse lives across several continents. In the years following the Second World War they produced more than half a century of foundational creative writing and literary criticism, and made stellar contributions to the founding and enhancement of institutions and repertoires of African and black arts and letters in South Africa and internationally. As a result, their lifeworlds and oeuvres present sharp and multifaceted engagements with and generative insights into a wide range of issues, including precolonial existence, colonialism, empire, race, culture, identity, class, the language question, tradition, modernity, exile, Pan-Africanism, and decolonisation.

Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe

Museum Cooperation between Africa and Europe
Author: Thomas Laely
Publisher: transcript Verlag
Total Pages: 267
Release: 2018-07-31
Genre: Art
ISBN: 3839443814

At a time of major transformations in the conditions and self-conceptions of cultural history and ethnological museums worldwide, it has become increasingly important for these museums to engage in cooperative projects. This book brings together insights and analyses of a wide variety of approaches to museum cooperation from different expert perspectives. Featuring a variety of African and European points of view and providing detailed empirical evidence, it establishes a new field of museological study and provides some suggestions for future museum practice.

The Land Is Sung

The Land Is Sung
Author: Thomas M. Pooley
Publisher: Wesleyan University Press
Total Pages: 297
Release: 2023-10-03
Genre: Music
ISBN: 0819500593

What does it mean to belong? In The Land is Sung, musicologist Thomas M. Pooley shows how performances of song, dance, and praise poetry connect Zulu communities to their ancestral homes and genealogies. For those without land tenure in the province of KwaZulu-Nata, performances articulate a sense of place. Migrants express their allegiances through performance and spiritual relationships to land are embodied in rituals that invoke ancestral connection while advancing well-being through intergenerational communication. Engaging with justice and environmental ethics, education and indigenous knowledge systems, musical and linguistic analysis, and the ethics of recording practice, Pooley's analysis draws on genres of music and dance recorded in the midlands and borderlands of South Africa, and in Johannesburg's inner city. His detailed sound writing captures the visceral experiences of performances in everyday life. The book is richly illustrated and there is a companion website featuring both video and audio examples.