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Author:   Zoe Cormack ,  Cherry Leonardi
Publisher:   Sidestone Press
Imprint:   Sidestone Press
ISBN:  

9789464260137

ISBN 10:   9464260130
Pages:   212
Publication Date:   28 April 2022
Audience:   Professional and scholarly ,  Professional & Vocational
Format:   Hardback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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List of Figures About the Contributors Acknowledgements   Introduction Zoe Cormack and Cherry Leonardi   C19th Commercial Entanglements   From ‘Bush’ to ‘Boudoir’ Zachary Kingdon   ‘A very Singular Helmet…’ Jeremy Coote and Alison Petch   A Headdress of Human Hair Nadja Haumberger   Travelling and Talking Objects   The ‘Omdurman’ Slit-Drum John Mack   A Talking Drum Samuel Zanunga Biegene, Takido Zambia Sebit and Sebit Fandas   Music that Breathes Life Justin Billy Buwali   Like Doves in Flight John Ryle   Resistance and (Re)appropriations   The Musealization of the Gift Paola Ivanov   ‘Captured’ at the Battle of Omdurman Nick Badcott   Car Koryom’s Fly Whisk Douglas Johnson   Small Drum, Wooden and Hide, variable Pitch Richard Vokes   Problems of Representation   ‘Spears’ that are not Spears Jok Madut Jok   Out of Frame Chris Morton   A Dinka Madonna? Ludmilla Jordanova   An Unused Hunting Spear Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp   Markets and Collecting   The Potter of Li Rangu Inbal Livne   The Market in Memory Zoe Cormack   Containing the Harvest Patti Langton   Of Replicas, Refusals and Resistance Elfatih Atem and Rebecca Lorins   Heritage in War and Peace   New Sudan Ephemera Nicki Kindersley and Yosa Wawa   Heritage in Displacement Deng Nhial Chioh   A European Union Jerry-Can Adebo Nelson Abiti and John Giblin   Because the World is not Ending Florence Henry Lokule and Alex Miskin   Afterword: A World in Process: Recovering Agency through Objects Annie Coombes   Bibliography

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Zoe Cormack is a Leverhulme Early Career Fellow at the African Studies Centre, Oxford University and an honorary research affiliate at the Pitt Rivers Museum. Zoe has previously held research fellowships at the British School at Rome, the British Institute in East Africa and the Open University. Her most recent article, ‘Violence and the Trade in Ethnographic Artefacts in Nineteenth Century Sudan,’ is published in The Journal of Art Market Studies (2020). Cherry Leonardi is Associate Professor in African History at Durham University in the UK. She works on the history of South Sudan and northern Uganda, with particular interests in local-level processes of state formation and the construction of authority, communities and boundaries. She is the author of Dealing with Government in South Sudan: Histories of Chiefship, Community and State (James Currey, 2013) and co-author of Dividing Communities in South Sudan and Northern Uganda: Boundary Disputes and Land Governance (Rift Valley Institute, 2016). Her current research is exploring histories of conservation, conflict and nature, with a Carson Fellowship at the Ludwig-Maximilians University of Munich in 2020.

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