Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
Politics, Practice and Possibilities
Buch, Englisch, 290 Seiten, Format (B × H): 174 mm x 246 mm, Gewicht: 540 g
ISBN: 978-1-138-08295-3
Verlag: Taylor & Francis Ltd
This book examines how San and Khoe people are represented, by others, as well as by those who identify as San or Khoe. It interrogates the ways in which disciplines, through their methodologies and ways of authorising knowledge, not only "discover" or "reveal" knowledge but produce it in ways that involve complex and often ambiguous relationships with power structures and forms of intellectual, symbolic and cultural capital. One major trend that emerges is that the San and Khoe can no longer be seen as people of the past but have to be acknowledged as contemporary and socially situated individuals and communities who are increasingly contesting the representations which others have imposed on them.
This book was originally published astwo special issues of Critical Arts: South-North Cultural and Media Studies.
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1. San representation: an overview of the field 2. To exhibit or be exhibited: the visual art of Vetkat Regopstaan Boesman Kruiper 3. Simulacral, genealogical, auratic and representational failure: Bushman authenticity as methodological collapse 4. Development narratives: the value of multiple voices and ontologies in Kalahari research 5. The music of dead sisters: a feminist comparison of two folktales about singing bones and reeds 6. The creation of the eland: a close reading of a Drakensberg San narrative 7. The damaging effects of romantic mythopoeia on Khoesan linguistics 8. The Boer and the Jackal: Satire and Resistance in Khoi Orature 9. ‘Di-xerreten and the lioness’: text and landscape of a Xam narrative 10. Who owns what? Indigenous knowledge and struggles over representation 11. Narrating Biesje Poort: negotiating absence of storyline, vagueness and multivocality in the representation of Southern Kalahari rock engravings 12. ‘Different people’ coming together: representations of alterity in Xam Bushman (San) narrative 13. Icons and archives: the Orpen lithograph in the context of 19th-century depictions of rock paintings 14. Truths, representationalism and disciplinarity in Khoesan researches 15. Researching the San, San/ding the research