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Inbunden, Engelska, 2008
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George Stow was a Victorian man of many parts—poet, historian, ethnographer, artist, cartographer, and prolific writer. A geologist by profession, he became acquainted, through his work in the field, with the extraordinary wealth of rock paintings in the caves and shelters of the South African interior. Enchanted and absorbed by them, Stow set out to create a record of this creative work of the people who had tracked and marked the South African landscape decades and centuries before him.Unconquerable Spirit reveals the scope and the beauty of his labors. Stow's paintings are more than just copies of what he found on the rocks. They are interpretations of the art of the San, informed by his own understanding of a particularly turbulent time in South African history and his sense of the tragic demise of the San way of life. This book celebrates his pioneering achievement and reminds us, too, of the richness of the imaginative universe of the San.
Häftad, Engelska, 2014
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Uncertain Curature is a volume of bold and original explorations of the archive—the past, our material inheritance—and the ways it is displayed, interpreted, and given meaning in the postcolonial world of South Africa. This operation on the past, what the authors have called ""curature,"" can be seen as the postcolony's way of rescripting its own history, which is both a trauma to be dealt with and a resource for the future. The idea of curation is beautifully explored in a series of chapters, whose subjects include a controversial Bushman diorama, a cache of negatives found in a disused mining hostel, fieldwork photographs of the exhumation of children's bodies from an archaeological dig, artefacts and images of ""the Zulu"" in Oxford's Pitt Rivers Museum, artists' depictions of Steve Biko's corpse, the colonial inheritance of Victoriana and the queen herself, and anti-apartheid black-centered films.