National culture in post-apartheid Namibia : state-sponsored cultural festivals and their histories / Michael Akuupa.

Format:

Book

Thesis/Dissertation

Author/Creator:

Akuupa, Michael, author.

Contributor:

McKittrick, Meredith, writer of introduction.

Series:

Basel Namibia studies series, 2234-9561 ; 15

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Music--Instruction and study--South Africa.

Music.

Music--Instruction and study--Sweden.

Music--Social aspects--Sweden.

Music--Social aspects--South Africa.

Music--South Africa--History and criticism.

Music--Sweden--History and criticism.

Namibia--Social life and customs.

Namibia.

Namibia--History--1990-.

Genre:

Theses et ecrits academiques.

Academic theses.

History.

Electronic books.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (242 p.)

Edition:

1st ed.

Place of Publication:

Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2015.

Language Note:

English

Summary:

National Culture in Post-Apartheid Namibia addresses the challenges of creating a national culture in the context of a historical legacy that has emphasised ethnic diversity. The state-sponsored Annual National Culture Festival (ANCF) focuses on the Kavango region in north-eastern Namibia. Akuupa critically examines the notion of Kavango-ness as a colonial construct and its subsequent reconstitution and appropriation. He analyses the way in which cultural representations are produced by local people in the postcolonial African context of nation building and national reconciliation by bringing visions of cosmopolitanism and modernity into critical dialogue with the colonial past. Competing cultural festivals are used as celebratory social spaces in which performers and local people participate whilst negotiating a sense of national belonging in an ongoing tension between the need to celebrate diversity, yet strive for unity. This is the first study to discuss the comprehensive role played by those cultural festivals, which were organised in the ethnic homelands during the time Namibia fell under South African control.

Contents:

Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Contents; Acknowledgement; Preface; Foreword; 1. The Festive 'Moment' of Namibia; Introduction; 2. The 'Performance' of Culture; On 'Doing' and 'Performing' 'Culture' at State Sponsored Culture Festivals; Anthropology and Performance; Performance Theory in the Social Science Sphere; Theory of Performance: A Critical Analysis; Postcolonial Nationalism: One Namibia One Nation; Festival Making in Postcolonial Africa; Culture and Making the Nation; Festival with New Social Meaning and Function; 3. Home Anthropology and Politics of Ekoro.

"Whose Child are You?1" The Dynamics and Politics of ekoro/likoro in Doing Ethnography at HomeConnectedness of Ekoro and its Workings in the Research Field; Analysis of Ekoro and its Working in the Research Field; Assumed and Imposed Fieldwork Self; 4. Kavango the 'Domicile' in Perspective; Kavango: Whose Land is It?; Kavango the Place or People?; Kavango as Told in Legends; The Royal Narrative; Early German Colonial and Missionary Encounters; Kavango the Native Reserve; Volkekunde Anthropology and Kavango; Kavango After the Implementation of the Odendaal Plan.

Kavango in Contemporary Discourse: A Historical Sanitization Project5. Sangfees, the Antecedent of the Postcolonial Annual National Culture Festival; The Making of the Colonial Festival: 'sangfees1'; The Department of Education Administration for Kavango; Division of Youth and Culture Affairs; Sangfees at Ekongoro; Ezuva for the 'Youth'; Postcolonial Annual Culture Festivals; 6. Kavango Cultural Identity in Postcolonial Namibia; Reclaiming Colonial Ethnicity in a Postcolonial Context; On the Search for 'Tradition' and 'Culture' in Namibia; Kavango Museum.

Maria Mwengere Culture Centre: 'The Culture Booklet: An Instrument of Objectification'"Culture Booklet": A Resource of Advocacy; 7. Namibian Identity Through Dance; "Making the Nation": The Role of Local People in the Festival; A Note on 'Kavango' Traditional Dances; Rehearsal Performances; At Swapo Regional Office; Festival Making: Exploring Local participation and Influences in the Discourse of Nation-Building; Mpungu Circuit and Kavango Regional Festivals; 8. Deconstructing Postcolonial Ethnic Diversity.

Annual National Culture Festival: Discourses of Difference and Belongingin Postcolonial NamibiaThe Annual National Culture Festival; The March Through Town; Inside the Stadium; 'Performances' of Culture; Analysis of the Festival Representations in Kavango; Reflections on Kavango Identity; 9. The Postcolonial Nation as Curated by the State Through Dance; Conclusion; Festivals and 'Nation Building'; List of Abbreviations; Bibliography; Index; Back cover.

Notes:

Description based upon print version of record.

doctoral University of the Western Cape, Cape Town.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Description based on online resource; title from PDF title page (ebrary, viewed June 27, 2015).

ISBN:

9783905758696

3905758695

OCLC:

917873709