Uncertain curature

In and out of the archive

Häftad, Engelska, 2014

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Uncertain Curature is a volume of bold and original explorations of the archive—the past, our material inheritance—and the ways it is displayed, interpreted, and given meaning in the postcolonial world of South Africa. This operation on the past, what the authors have called ""curature,"" can be seen as the postcolony's way of rescripting its own history, which is both a trauma to be dealt with and a resource for the future. The idea of curation is beautifully explored in a series of chapters, whose subjects include a controversial Bushman diorama, a cache of negatives found in a disused mining hostel, fieldwork photographs of the exhumation of children's bodies from an archaeological dig, artefacts and images of ""the Zulu"" in Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, artists' depictions of Steve Biko's corpse, the colonial inheritance of Victoriana and the queen herself, and anti-apartheid black-centered films.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum2014-07-14
Mått215 x 245 x 15 mm
Vikt500 g
FormatHäftad
SpråkEngelska
Antal sidor384
FörlagJacana Media (Pty) Ltd
ISBN9781431406296

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Nationell befrielse och självständighet inom Historia och arkeologi

In and out of the archive; Cover to cover: The contribution of the book to the reproduction of linear, hierarchical models of natural history; Fugitive archive: A response to the Bushman diorama; A curator's fingers: Photographers, subjects, and the third thing; Fieldwork, killing time and accidental photographs; The hand of the archaeologist: Historical catastrophe, regimes of care, excision, relationality and undisciplinarity; Salutes, labels and other archival artefacts; Depths of field: Photographs and early Southern African music studies; Images of loss and abundance: A reading of the !kun children's material in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (1879-1881); Anarchive (picturing absence); Alexandra Dodd The persistence of empire: Unveiling transnational legacies of race in Funnyhouse of a Negro; The creator's hand and curator's imprint; Resisting archival ends; Outlawed black public spheres: Snapshots of cinema's archive.