African Journal of History and Culture
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Author | : Patricia Hayes |
Publisher | : Ohio University Press |
Total Pages | : 367 |
Release | : 2019-11-12 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 0821446886 |
Going beyond photography as an isolated medium to engage larger questions and interlocking forms of expression and historical analysis, Ambivalent gathers a new generation of scholars based on the continent to offer an expansive frame for thinking about questions of photography and visibility in Africa. The volume presents African relationships with photography—and with visibility more generally—in ways that engage and disrupt the easy categories and genres that have characterized the field to date. Contributors pose new questions concerning the instability of the identity photograph in South Africa; ethnographic photographs as potential history; humanitarian discourse from the perspective of photographic survivors of atrocity photojournalism; the nuanced passage from studio to screen in postcolonial digital portraiture; and the burgeoning visual activism in West Africa. As the contributors show, photography is itself a historical subject: it involves arrangement, financing, posture, positioning, and other kinds of work that are otherwise invisible. By moving us outside the frame of the photograph itself, by refusing to accept the photograph as the last word, this book makes photography an engaging and important subject of historical investigation. Ambivalent‘s contributors bring photography into conversation with orality, travel writing, ritual, psychoanalysis, and politics, with new approaches to questions of race, time, and postcolonial and decolonial histories. Contributors: George Emeka Agbo, Isabelle de Rezende, Jung Ran Forte, Ingrid Masondo, Phindi Mnyaka, Okechukwu Nwafor, Vilho Shigwedha, Napandulwe Shiweda, Drew Thompson
Author | : Lars Berge |
Publisher | : libreriauniversitaria.it ed. |
Total Pages | : 546 |
Release | : 2013 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 8862923635 |
Author | : Ligaga, Dina |
Publisher | : NISC (Pty) Ltd |
Total Pages | : 194 |
Release | : 2020-02-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1920033637 |
Women, visibility and morality in Kenyan popular media explores familiar constructions of femininity to assess ways in which it circulates in discourse, both stereotypically and otherwise. It assesses the meanings of such discourses and their articulations in various public platforms in Kenya. The book draws together theoretical questions on ‘pre-convened’ scripts that contain or condition how women can circulate in public. The book asks questions about particular interpretations of women’s bodies that are considered transgressive or unruly and why these bodies become significant symbolic sites for the generation of knowledge on morality and sexuality. The book also poses questions about genre and representations of femininity. The assertion made is that for knowledges of femininity to circulate effectively, they must be melodramatic, spectacular and scandalous. Ultimately, the book asks how such a theorisation of popular modes of representation enable a better understanding of the connections between gender, sexuality and violence in Kenya.
Author | : Awet Tewelde Weldemichael |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 259 |
Release | : 2019-01-24 |
Genre | : Political Science |
ISBN | : 1108496962 |
Following six years of extensive fieldwork, Weldemichael examines the international causes, internal dynamics, and domestic consequences of piracy in Somalia.
Author | : Carter Godwin Woodson |
Publisher | : ReadaClassic.com |
Total Pages | : 144 |
Release | : 1969 |
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Total Pages | : 448 |
Release | : 1989 |
Genre | : Art |
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Author | : Karin Barber |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 213 |
Release | : 2018-01-11 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107016894 |
A journey through the history of African popular culture from the seventeenth century to the present day.
Author | : Toyin Falola |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 438 |
Release | : 2004 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 9781580461405 |
An overview of the ongoing methods used to understand African history. Spurred in part by the ongoing re-evaluation of sources and methods in research, African historiography in the past two decades has been characterized by the continued branching and increasing sophistication of methodologies and areas of specialization. The rate of incorporation of new sources and methods into African historical research shows no signs of slowing. This book is both a snapshot of current academic practice and an attempt to sort throughsome of the problems scholars face within this unfolding web of sources and methods. The book is divided into five sections, each of which begins with a short introduction by a distinguished Africanist scholar. The first sectiondeals with archaeological contributions to historical research. The second section examines the methodologies involved in deciphering historically accurate African ethnic identities from the records of the trans-Atlantic slave trade. The third section mines old documentary sources for new historical perspectives. The fourth section deals with the method most often associated with African historians, that of drawing historical data from oral tradition. Thefifth section is devoted to essays that present innovative sources and methods for African historical research. Together, the essays in this cutting-edge volume represent the current state of the art in African historical research. Toyin Falola is the Jacob and Frances Sanger Mossiker Chair in the Humanities and University Distinguished Teaching Professor at the University of Texas at Austin. Christian Jennings is a Doctoral Candidatein History at the University of Texas at Austin.