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Tribing and untribing the archive (Set): Volume 1 & 2 (Multiple copy pack)
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Tribing and untribing the archive (Set): Volume 1 & 2 (Multiple copy pack)
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The pernicious combination of tribe and tradition continues to
tether modern South Africans to ideas about the region's remote
past as primitive, timeless and unchanging. Any hunger for
knowledge or understanding of the past before European colonialism
thus remains to a significant degree unsated, even denied, in the
face of a narrowly prescribed archive and repugnant, but
insidiously resilient stereotypes. These volumes track how the
domain of the tribal and traditional was marked out and came to be
sharply distinguished from modernity, how it was denied a changing
history and an archive and was endowed instead with a timeless
culture. These volumes also offer strategies for engaging with the
materials differently - from the interventions effected in
contemporary artworks to the inserting of nameless, timeless
objects of material culture into histories of individualised and
politicised experience. The central proposition of these volumes is
to make the marooned archive of material culture more visible and
more available for consideration as an archival resource than it is
currently. They also seek to spring the identity trap, releasing
the material from pre-assigned identity positions as tribal into
settings that enable them to be used as resources for thinking
critically about identity in the long past and in the present.
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