Riotous Deathscapes
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2023
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1959-6 (ISBN)
Duke University Press (Verlag)
978-1-4780-1959-6 (ISBN)
Hugo ka Canham examines the practices of amaMpondo people of South Africa to theorize their strategies of resilience and survival in the face of centuries of abandonment, trauma, antiblackness, and death.
In Riotous Deathscapes, Hugo ka Canham presents an understanding of life and death based on indigenous and black ways of knowing that he terms Mpondo theory. Focusing on amaMpondo people from rural Mpondoland, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, Canham outlines the methodologies that have enabled the community’s resilience and survival. He assembles historical events and a cast of ancestral and living characters, following the tenor of village life, to offer a portrait of how Mpondo people live and die in the face of centuries of abandonment, trauma, antiblackness, and death. Canham shows that Mpondo theory is grounded in and develops in relation to the natural world, where the river and hill are key sites of being and resistance. Central too, is the interface between ancestors and the living, in which life and death become a continuity and a boundlessness that white supremacy and neoliberalism cannot interdict. By charting a course of black life in Mpondoland, Canham tells a story of blackness on the African continent and beyond.
Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Recipient
In Riotous Deathscapes, Hugo ka Canham presents an understanding of life and death based on indigenous and black ways of knowing that he terms Mpondo theory. Focusing on amaMpondo people from rural Mpondoland, in South Africa’s Eastern Cape, Canham outlines the methodologies that have enabled the community’s resilience and survival. He assembles historical events and a cast of ancestral and living characters, following the tenor of village life, to offer a portrait of how Mpondo people live and die in the face of centuries of abandonment, trauma, antiblackness, and death. Canham shows that Mpondo theory is grounded in and develops in relation to the natural world, where the river and hill are key sites of being and resistance. Central too, is the interface between ancestors and the living, in which life and death become a continuity and a boundlessness that white supremacy and neoliberalism cannot interdict. By charting a course of black life in Mpondoland, Canham tells a story of blackness on the African continent and beyond.
Duke University Press Scholars of Color First Book Award Recipient
Hugo ka Canham is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand and coeditor of Black Academic Voices: The South African Experience.
Acknowledgments vii
Introduction: Mpondo Orientations 1
1. Watchful Ocean, Observant Mountain 37
2. Fortifying Rivers 68
3. Riotous Spirits—Ukukhuphuka Izizwe 104
4. Levitating Graves and Ancestral Frequencies 139
5. Rioting Hills and Occult Insurrections 173
Fitful Dreamscapes: An Afterword 208
Notes 213
References 231
Index 259
| Erscheinungsdatum | 27.02.2023 |
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| Zusatzinfo | 18 illustrations |
| Verlagsort | North Carolina |
| Sprache | englisch |
| Maße | 152 x 229 mm |
| Gewicht | 408 g |
| Themenwelt | Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie | |
| Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie | |
| ISBN-10 | 1-4780-1959-X / 147801959X |
| ISBN-13 | 978-1-4780-1959-6 / 9781478019596 |
| Zustand | Neuware |
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