Rethinking Africa : indigenous women reinterpret southern Africa's pasts / edited by Bernedette Muthien and June Bam.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Muthien, Bernedette, editor.

Bam, June, editor.

Series:

Rethinking Africa series

Rethinking Africa series ; volume IV

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Learning and scholarship.

History.

Historiography.

South Africa.

Historiography--South Africa.

Learning and scholarship--South Africa--History.

Genre:

History.

Physical Description:

xiii, 232 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : color illustrations ; 24 cm.

Place of Publication:

Auckland Park, South Africa: Fanele, 2021.

Summary:

"This book critically opens new pathways for de-colonial scholarship and the reclamation of indigenous self-definition by women scholars. Indigenous peoples around the world are often socially egalitarian and gender equal, matricentric, matrifocal, matrilineal, less violent, beyond heteronormative, ecologically sensitive, and with feminine or two-gender deities or spirits, and more. Bernedette Muthien has contributed to several publications over the years, while June Bam has made numerous key contributions in the field of rethinking and rewriting the African past more generally. In this book, indigenous women write their own herstory, define their own contemporary cultural and socio-economic conditions, and ideate future visions based on their lived realities. All chapters herstoricise the accepted 'histories' and theories of how we have come to understand the African past, how to problematise and rethink that discourse, and provide new and different herstorical lenses, philosophies, epistemologies, methodologies and interpretations. In a first of its kind in Africa and the world, this collection of essays is written by, with and for indigenous southern African women from matricentric societies"--Back cover.

Contents:

Foreword / Lungisile Ntsebeza

I've come to take you home : a tribute to Sarah Baartman / Diana Ferrus

Introduction / June Bam and Bernedette Muthien

1. Writing ourselves back into history : the liberating narrative of who we are / Sylvia Vollenhoven

2. Rematriation : reclaiming indigenous matricentric egalitarianism / Bernedette Muthien

green kalahari / Bernedette Muthien

3. Gendering social science : Ukubuiswa of maternal legacies of knowledge for balanced social science studies in South Africa / Babalwa Magoqwana

4. Feminism-cide and epistemicide of Cape herstoriography through the lens of the ecology of indigenous plants / June Bam

The bones / Diana Ferrus

Camissa / Khadija Tracey Carmelita Heeger

call to art / Shelley Barry

5. Valuing the increased and invisible workload : indigenous women, labour and the COVID-19 pandemic / Sharon Groenmeyer

6. Decolonising the representation of indigenous women at the Cape during Covid-19 / June Bam and Robyn Humphreys

7. Repositioning !uiki Ilnaosa/aia/ / gertrude fester-wicomb

8. Ancestral letter to unborn descendants / Sarah Malotane Henkeman

9. The falling sky : some notes about originary peoples in Brazil / Ana Lígia Leite e Aguiar

Conclusion / June Bam and Bernedette Muthien

one & many / Bernedette Muthien.

Notes:

"This publication is Volume IV of the Rethinking Africa series in the Pre-Colonial Catalytic Project of the Centre for African Studies funded by the National Institute for the Humanities and Social Sciences"--Verso title page.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

ISBN:

1928232949

9781928232940

OCLC:

1250513256