Uncertain curature

Carolyn Hamilton holds a research chair in archive and public Culture at the University of Cape Town.Pippa Skotnes is professor of fine art at the University of Cape Town.

• In and out of the archive; Cover to cover: The contribution of the book to the reproduction of linear, hierarchical models of natural history; Fugitive archive: A response to the Bushman diorama; A curator's fingers: Photographers, subjects, and the third thing; Fieldwork, killing time and accidental photographs; The hand of the archaeologist: Historical catastrophe, regimes of care, excision, relationality and undisciplinarity; Salutes, labels and other archival artefacts; Depths of field: Photographs and early Southern African music studies; Images of loss and abundance: A reading of the !kun children's material in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (1879-1881); Anarchive (picturing absence); Alexandra Dodd The persistence of empire: Unveiling transnational legacies of race in Funnyhouse of a Negro; The creator's hand and curator's imprint; Resisting archival ends; Outlawed black public spheres: Snapshots of cinema's archive.