- Title
- Shifting contexts: contemporary South African art in changing times
- Creator
- Ntombela, N
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- text
- Type
- book
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10962/146200
- Identifier
- vital:38504
- Identifier
- ISBN 9781869143398
- Identifier
- https://books.google.co.za/books?id=xZlAjySD5-cCandq=Tribing+and+Untribing+the+Archive:+Identity+and+the+Material+Record+in+Southern+KwaZulu-Natal+in+the+Late+Independent+and+Colonial+Periodsdq=Tribing+and+Untribing+the+Archive:+Identity+and+the+Material+Record+in+Southern+KwaZulu-Natal+in+the+Late+Independent+and+Colonial+Periodsl=ensa=Xved=0ahUKEwjJ3oOGgcDpAhVuURUIHQyoAnIQ6AEIJzAA
- Description
- Book abstract. 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 remains to a significant degree unsated 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 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. They 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 individualized and politicized experience. The two volume set make this archive of material culture visible as an archival resource. 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.
- Format
- 30 pages
- Format
- Publisher
- University of KwaZulu-Natal Press
- Language
- English
- Relation
- Ntombela, N., 2016. Shifting Contexts: Contemporary South African Art in Changing Times. In Tribing and Untribing the Archive: Identity and the Material Record in Southern KwaZulu-Natal in the Late Independent and Colonial Periods, pp.86-115.
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