Archives of Times Past

Conversations about South Africa's Deep History

Cynthia Kros, John Wright, Mbongiseni Buthulezi, Helen Ludlow (Autoren)

Buch | Softcover

360 Seiten

2022
Wits University Press (Verlag)
978-1-77614-727-4 (ISBN)

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Explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa’s time before the colonial era. The book gathers recent ideas about archives and archiving from scholars in southern Africa and elsewhere, focusing on the question: How do we know, or think we know, what happened in the times before European colonialism?

Archives of Times Past explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa’s time before the colonial era. It gathers recent ideas about archives and archiving from scholars in southern Africa and elsewhere, focusing on the question: ‘How do we know, or think we know, what happened in the times before European colonialism?’

The essays by well-known historians, archaeologists and researchers engage these questions from a range of perspectives and in illuminating ways. Written from personal experience, they capture how these experts encountered their archives of knowledge beyond the textbook.

The essays are written at a time when public discussion about the history of southern Africa before the colonial era is taking place more openly than at any other time in the last hundred years They will appeal to students, academics, educationists, teachers, archivists, and heritage, museum practitioners and the general public.

Cynthia Kros, historian and heritage specialist, is an Honorary Research Associate of the History Workshop at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, and an Honorary Research Associate of the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town. John Wright is Emeritus Professor of History at the University of KwaZulu-Natal and a research associate in the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative at the University of Cape Town. Mbongiseni Buthelezi is Executive Director of the Public Affairs Research Institute, Johannesburg, South Africa. He has published widely in the fields of African literature, heritage studies, and governance in South Africa. Helen Ludlow was head of History at the School of Education, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg until the end of 2016 lecturing in academic history and methodology.

List of Illustrations
Acknowledgements
Editorial Note
Map
Part I First Thoughts about the Archive
Chapter 1 Exploring the Archive of the Times before Colonialism — Cynthia Kros, John Wright, Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Helen Ludlow
Chapter 2 A Young Woman’s Journey of Discovery — Cynthia Kros and John Wright
Chapter 3 Where Are the Deep Conversations about the Past? — Cynthia Kros and John Wright
Chapter 4 ‘Ask the Old People’; ‘Ask the Professors’ — Cynthia Kros and John Wright
Part II Commentaries and Conversations
Chapter 5 Notes on a Kholwa Writer’s Life: Magema Fuze — Hlonipha Mokoena
Chapter 6 An Archive in an Old Tin Trunk — Rachel King
Chapter 7 Making ‘Tribal Histories’: The Work of Paul-Lenert Breutz — Fred Morton and Jan Boeyens
Chapter 8 Conversations with Sekibakiba Lekgoathi — Sekibakiba Lekgoathi, Cynthia Kros and John Wright
Chapter 9 Unpacking Olden Times — John Wright
Part III Becoming Explorers
Chapter 10 From ‘Nature Study’ to ‘Nature’s Archives’: My Journey into Environmental History — Muchaparara Musemwa
Chapter 11 Nervously Entering the World of Carl Hoffmann and His Interlocutors — Lize Kriel
Chapter 12 Dreams and Destinies: Stepping into the World of Archaeology — Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu
Chapter 13 Life with the James Stuart Archive — John Wright
Part IV Engaging with Archaeology and Rock Art
Chapter 14 Digging Historic Cave: An Archaeological and Historical Quest — Amanda Esterhuysen
Chapter 15 Storm Shelter: Rediscovering an Archive of Rock Art — Geoffrey Blundell
Chapter 16 A Lion’s Life: Tracking the Biography of an Archaeological
Artefact — Justine Wintjes
Part V Conflicting Opinions
Chapter 17 A Neglected Archive – and an Academic Pact — Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu
Chapter 18 Mapungubwe Imagined — Himal Ramji
Chapter 19 Mkhize Historians Dispute the Past — Grant McNulty
Part VI Further Thoughts
Chapter 20 Making Journeys into the Archive — Cynthia Kros
Chapter 21 The Archive in Pictures: Visual Essay — Justine Wintjes
Glossary
Contributors
Index

Erscheinungsdatum	10.02.2022
Verlagsort	Johannesburg
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	500 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Geschichte ► Teilgebiete der Geschichte ► Kulturgeschichte
ISBN-10	1-77614-727-8 / 1776147278
ISBN-13	978-1-77614-727-4 / 9781776147274
Zustand	Neuware