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Sites of contestation : encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection in the Archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien

Title: Sites of contestation : encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection in the Archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien / Julia Rensing, Lorena Rizzo, Wanda Rutishauser (eds.).
Publication: Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2021.

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Description

120 pages, 12 unnumbered pages : illustrations; 25 cm

Summary

"This book is a collection of essays written by emerging scholars at the University of Basel on the basis of their subjective encounters with a specific archival collection housed in the Basler Afrika Bibliographien in Basel. The Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection consists of around 8100 images, 750 audio recordings and numerous manuscripts, diaries and notes. The German couple conducted research on Namibian oral literatures and languages as they were spoken and performed across the country in the early 1950s. Based on in-depth engagement with the textual, visual and audio records assembled in this intricate collection, the authors of this book critically interrogated the implications of opening a colonial archive, exploring alternative ways of reading and understanding the historical material. As unique examples of close reading and listening, the essays propose creative ways of attending to the politics of race, gender, famine, ethnography, biography and fiction in colonial knowledge production."--

Subject

Basler Afrika Bibliographien
1946-1990
History > Sources
Namibia > Sources > 1946-1990 > Congresses
Namibia > Sources > Congresses
Namibia

Genre/Form

Conference papers and proceedings.
History.

Note

"University seminar entitled Photography & History in Southern Africa"--From page 7.

Bibliography (note)

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents

Sites of Contestation -- Introduction / Julia Rensing, Wanda Rutishauser -- 1. On Wide Open Plains -- Traces of Resilience in Namibian Oral Storytelling / Naemi Hüberli -- 2. Worlds Apart? Biographies and Interventions in the Dammann Collection / Julia Rensing -- 3. Alice in Dammann Land: A Curious Adventure Through the Ernst and Ruth Dammann Archive at the Basler Afrika Bibliographien (Namibia, 1953-54) / Natashia Collier -- 4. Adelheid Mbuandjou: Fragments of Life Narratives in the Dammann Collection / Wanda Rutishauser -- 5. The Image-Text Event: Framing Famine in Namibia in 1953 / Natalia Krzysztofek, Vishruti Shastri

Call Number

ReCAP 22-2661

ISBN

3906927318
9783906927312

OCLC

1251508157
1251508157

Title

Sites of contestation : encounters with the Ernst and Ruth Dammann collection in the Archives of the Basler Afrika Bibliographien / Julia Rensing, Lorena Rizzo, Wanda Rutishauser (eds.).

Publisher

Basel, Switzerland : Basler Afrika Bibliographien, 2021.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references.

Chronological Term

1946-1990

Added Author

Dammann, Ernst, 1904-2003.

Dammann, Ruth.

Rensing, Julia, editor.

Rizzo, Lorena, editor.

Rutishauser, Wanda, editor.

Research Call Number

ReCAP 22-2661

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