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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."

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Author:   Pippa Skotnes ,  Carolyn Hamilton
Publisher:   Jacana Media (Pty) Ltd
Imprint:   Jacana Media
Dimensions:   Width: 21.50cm , Height: 1.50cm , Length: 24.50cm
Weight:   0.500kg
ISBN:  

9781431406296

ISBN 10:   1431406295
Pages:   384
Publication Date:   14 July 2014
Audience:   General/trade ,  General
Format:   Paperback
Publisher's Status:   Active
Availability:   In Print  
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Table of Contents

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.

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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.

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