Tribing and untribing the archive : identity and the material record in Southern KwaZulu-Natal in the late independent and colonial periods / edited by Carolyn Hamilton and Nessa Leibhammer.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Hamilton, Carolyn, editor.

Leibhammer, Nessa, editor.

ProQuest ebook central.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Material culture--South Africa.

Material culture.

South Africa.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (2 volumes) : illustrations (some color), maps

Place of Publication:

Pietermaritzburg, South Africa : University of KwaZulu-Natal Press, 2016.

System Details:

text file

Contents:

Volume 1. Preface

Acknowledgements

Orthographic and name notes. Tribing and untribing the archives / Carolyn Hamilton and Nessa Leibhammer. Section 1: Mortified, marooned, mobilised : Negotiating a South African inheritance: nineteenth- an dearly twentieth- century "traditional" collections at the Johannesburg Art Gallery / Nessa Leibhammer

Shifting contexts: material, process and contemporary art in times of change / Nontobeko Ntombela

"(Re)discovering the correct history": tradition and custom, the archival record and identity in contemporary KwaZulu-Natal / Grant McNulty. Section 2: Layered landscapes, segregated spaces : Archaeological contexts and the creation of social categories before the Zulu Kingdom / Gavin Whitelaw and Simon Hall

Making identities in the Thukela-Mzimvubu region c.1770-c.1940 / John Wright

The tribal history project, 1862-4 / Jeff Guy

A.T. Bryant's map of the "Native clans in pre-Shakan times" / Norman Etherington

The historiography of the KwaMachi people: a frontier community between Zulu and Mpondo in the nineteenth century / Nokuthula P. Cele

Re-tribe and resist: the ethnogenesis of a Creolised raiding band in response to colonisation / Sam Challis

"We of the white men's country": the remaking of the Qadi chiefdom, 1830s to 1910 / Heather Hughes and Mwelela Cele.

Volume 2. Section 3: Significant (mis)identifications : Forging identities in an uncertain world: changing notions of self and other in early colonial natal / Sandra Klopper

"A paralysis of perspective": image and text in the creation of an African chief / Jeff Guy

Auxiliary modes of collecting: circulation and curation of photographs from the Mariannhill Mission in KwaZulu-Natal, 1880s to 1914 / Christoph Rippe

Ethnologised pasts and their archival futures: construing the archive of Southern KwaZulu-Natal pertinent to the period before 1910 / Carolyn Hamilton and Nessa Leibhammer

The Natal government railways and their productions of "the Zulu" / André Croucamp. Section 4: Archival biographies : "The name of Zulu is now given": provenancing objects from colonial Natal in the British Museum's Christy collection / Catherine Elliott Weinberg

Curiosity and aesthetic delight: the snuff spoon as synecdoche in some nineteenth-century collections from Natal and the Zulu kingdom / Anitra Nettleton

"Knobkerrie": some preliminary notes on the transformation of a weapon into a swagger stick, or sometimes a stick is not just a stick / Hlonipha Mokoena

Using Zulu and losing Zulu: how the Clem Webb collection was undone / Sara Byala and Ann Wanless. Epilogue : We need new names too / Mbongiseni Buthelezi. Contributors

select bibliography

List of illustrations

Index.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, MI Available via World Wide Web.

Description based on print version record.

ISBN:

9781869143404

186914340X

Publisher Number:

99990090874

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