The Pasts and Presence of Art in South Africa : Technologies, ontologies and agents
- Submitting institution
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The University of East Anglia
- Unit of assessment
- 32 - Art and Design: History, Practice and Theory
- Output identifier
- 182640336
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- B - Edited book
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- Publisher
- McDonald Institute, Cambridge
- ISBN
- 978-1913344016
- Open access status
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- Month of publication
- November
- Year of publication
- 2020
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- Output has been delayed by COVID-19
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- Forensic science
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- Criminology
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- Interdisciplinary
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- Number of additional authors
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2
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- Additional information
- This edited volume has its origins in a conference with the same title that Wingfield organised with the two co-editors in 2016, to coincide with the opening of the British Museum exhibition, South Africa: Art of a Nation. Together with Rachel King, Wingfield was awarded grants of GBP14,000 to support the conference, which made it possible to invite six invited keynote speakers from South Africa to participate.
Following the conference, the co-editors selected appropriate contributors for the three sections of the volume and worked with the authors to refine their chapters. The editors each did preliminary editing of one section of the volume. Chris Wingfield, as the main (and first named) editor, handled subsequent edits and revisions of all chapters and led on the formatting the book into final form, undertaking copy-editing and proof-reading of all chapters, as well as coordinating the images, captions and permissions (for 85 images). Wingfield also wrote the majority (two-thirds) of the research-rich, area defining introduction to the volume (11,471 words), which locates the chapters in the volume in relation to the events of #RhodesMustFall, developing a framework to connect contemporary forms of image production and political action to those of earlier, and in particular precolonial, times. ,
Wingfield contributed a substantial chapter (8540 words), Art, Animals and Animism: On the Trail of the Precolonial. Drawing on research undertaken over a number of years on the early nineteenth-century traveller John Campbell, this chapter develops a case study to explore some of the themes of the volume. It also engages with methodological questions related to the recovery of precolonial forms of knowledge in South Africa, which have emerged as a significant area of concern in the wake of #RhodesMustFall and #FeesMustFall movements.
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