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Sites of Contestation Encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Dammann Collection in the Archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliogr
- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Rensing, Julia.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Ernst and Ruth Dammann Collection.
- Basler Afrika Bibliographien.
- History--Sources.
- Namibia--Historiography--Congresses.
- Namibia.
- Namibia--History--1946-1990--Sources--Congresses.
- Namibia--Languages--Sources--Congresses.
- Genre:
- Electronic books.
- Physical Description:
- 1 online resource (134 pages)
- Place of Publication:
- Oxford : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2021.
- Summary:
- "This book is a collection of essays written by emerging scholars at the University of Basel on the basis of their subjective encounters with a specific archival collection housed in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Basel. The Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection consists of around 8100 images, 750 audio recordings and numerous manuscripts, diaries and notes. The German couple conducted research on Namibian oral literatures and languages as they were spoken and performed across the country in the early 1950s. Based on in-depth engagement with the textual, visual and audio records assembled in this intricate collection, the authors of this book critically interrogated the implications of opening a colonial archive, exploring alternative ways of reading and understanding the historical material. As unique examples of close reading and listening, the essays propose creative ways of attending to the politics of race, gender, famine, ethnography, biography and fiction in colonial knowledge production."-- Back cover.
- Contents:
- Cover
- Title Page
- Copyright
- Contents
- Sites of Contestation
- Introduction
- 1. On Wide Open Plains
- Traces of Resilience in Namibian Oral Storytelling
- 2. Worlds Apart? Biographies and Interventions in the Dammann Collection
- 3. Alice in Dammann Land: A Curious Adventure Through the Ernst and Ruth Dammann Archive at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (Namibia, 1953-54)
- 4. Adelheid Mbuandjou: Fragments of Life Narratives in the Dammann Collection
- 5. The Image-Text Event: Framing Famine in Namibia in 1953
- Archival Sources
- List of Illustrations
- Bibliography
- Notes:
- Back Cover.
- Description based upon print version of record.
- Description based on print version record.
- ISBN:
- 9783906927329
- 3906927326
- OCLC:
- 1273982254
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