Listening To Colonial History Echoes Of Coercive Knowledge Production In Historical Sound Recordings From Southern Africa

Author : Annette Hoffman
Publisher : African Books Collective
Page : 174 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2023-10-01
Category : History
ISBN : 9783906927404

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Listening to Colonial History. Echoes of Coercive Knowledge Production in Historical Sound Recordings from Southern Africa by Annette Hoffman Pdf

European archives hold historical voice recordings that were produced by linguists, ethnologists and musicologists during colonial rule in African countries. While these recordings reverberate with the polyphonic echoes of colonial knowledge production, to date, acoustic collections have rarely been consulted as sources of colonial history. In this book Anette Hoffmann engages with a Southern African audio-visual collection, which is located in five different institutions across Vienna, Austria. Several recordings collected by the anthropologist Rudolf Pch in August 1908 have been retranslated for this book. These translations provide new insights into Pchs collecting expedition to the Kalahari. Pchs narrative of his heroic journey is called into question by the Naro speakers comments, which address colonial violence and criticise the research practices of the anthropologist. By attending to the spoken texts on the recordings and reconnecting them to photographs, ethnographic objects, archival documentation and Pchs travelogue, Hoffmann offers a different reading of this research trip into a war zone.triesries.

Author : Anette Hoffmann
Publisher : BASLER AFRIKA BIBLIOGRAPHIEN
Page : 173 pages
File Size : 43,5 Mb
Release : 2023-01-01
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783906927398

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Listening to Colonial History. Echoes of Coercive Knowledge Production in Historical Sound Recordings from Southern Africa by Anette Hoffmann Pdf

European archives hold historical voice recordings that were produced by linguists, ethnologists and musicologists during colonial rule in African countries. While these recordings reverberate with the polyphonic echoes of colonial knowledge production, to date, acoustic collections have rarely been consulted as sources of colonial history. In this book Anette Hoffman engages with a Southern African audio-visual collection, which is located in five different institutions across Vienna, Austria. Several recordings collected by the anthropologist Rudolf Pöch in August 1908 have been retranslated for this book. These translations provide new insights into Pöch’s collecting expedition to the Kalahari. Pöch’s narrative of his heroic journey is called into question by the Naro speakers’ comments, which address colonial violence and criticise the research practices of the anthropologist. By attending to the spoken texts on the recordings and reconnecting them to photographs, ethnographic objects, archival documentation and Pöch’s travelogue, Hoffmann offers a different reading of this research trip into a war zone.

Author : Anette Hoffmann
Publisher : Duke University Press
Page : 143 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2024-02-23
Category : History
ISBN : 9781478059028

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Knowing by Ear by Anette Hoffmann Pdf

During World War I, thousands of young African men conscripted to fight for France and Britain were captured and held as prisoners of war in Germany, where their stories and songs were recorded and archived by German linguists. In Knowing by Ear, Anette Hoffmann demonstrates that listening to these acoustic recordings as historical sources, rather than linguistic samples, opens up possibilities for new historical perspectives and the formation of alternate archival practices and knowledge production. She foregrounds the archival presence of individual speakers and positions their recorded voices as responses to their experiences of colonialism, war, and the journey from Africa to Europe. By engaging with the recordings alongside written sources, photographs, and artworks depicting the speakers, Hoffmann personalizes speakers from present-day Senegal, Somalia, Togo, and Congo. Knowing by Ear includes transcriptions of numerous recordings of spoken and sung texts, revealing acoustic archives as significant yet under-researched sources for recovering the historical speaking positions of colonized subjects and listen to the acoustic echo of colonial knowledge production.

Author : Irene Hilden
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2022
Category : Imperialism
ISBN : 9461664699

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Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive by Irene Hilden Pdf

The Berlin Sound Archive (Lautarchiv) consists of an extensive collection of sound recordings, compiled for scientific purposes in the first half of the 20th century. Recorded on shellac are stories and songs, personal testimonies and poems, glossaries and numbers. This book engages with the archive by consistently focusing on recordings produced under colonial conditions.With a firm commitment to postcolonial scholarship, Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive is a historical ethnography of a metropolitan institution that participated in the production and preservation of colonial structures of power and knowledge. The book examines sound objects and listening practices that render the coloniality of knowledge fragile and inconsistent, revealing the absent presences of colonial subjects who are given little or no place in established national narratives and collective memories.

Author : R. Roque,K. Wagner
Publisher : Springer
Page : 306 pages
File Size : 48,8 Mb
Release : 2011-11-07
Category : History
ISBN : 9780230360075

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Engaging Colonial Knowledge by R. Roque,K. Wagner Pdf

Presenting a set of rich case-studies which demonstrate novel and productive approaches to the study of colonial knowledge, this volume covers British, Danish, Dutch, French, German, Portuguese, and Spanish colonial encounters in Africa, Asia, America and the Pacific, from the sixteenth to the twentieth century.

Author : Jackie Loos
Publisher : New Africa Books
Page : 180 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2004
Category : Slave trade
ISBN : 0864866615

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Echoes of Slavery by Jackie Loos Pdf

Echoes of Slavery: Voices from our Past is a collection of true stories, each chosen to illuminate a particular facet of Cape slavery in its mature form. The book concentrates on the final 30 years of slavery in order to place the least distance between Cape slaves and their modern descendants.

Author : Ikechukwu Aloysius Orjinta
Publisher : GRIN Verlag
Page : 52 pages
File Size : 43,6 Mb
Release : 2011-09-06
Category : History
ISBN : 9783640999842

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Slavery, Colonialism, Neo-Imperialism and their Impact on Africa by Ikechukwu Aloysius Orjinta Pdf

Scientific Study from the year 2011 in the subject African Studies, , language: English, abstract: Slavery, Colonialism and neo-colonialism have been described as the tripartite crime against Africa. A crime attributable to the Euro-Americans. Two nations laid the foundation of what later became the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. These were Portugal and Spain.The voyage of discovery reached Black Africa in 1445, when Dinis Dias and Lanzarote de Freitas anchored their fleets at the mouth of the Senegal River, and reconnoitered some of the Cape Verde islands. The remaining parts of the Archipelago was discovered jointly by the Venetian Alvise de Cadamosto (1430-1480), Antonio Uso Mare from Genoa. There were no further discoveries until the death of Henry the Navigator in 1460. As at this period the local chiefs were already into the lucrative slave trade. Pedro de Cintas in 1462 discovered the coasts of Guinea, the Bissagos Islands, Sierra Leone and Liberia. Fernando Po and Lopez Gonzalves navigated Fernando Po and Sao Tome Islands. Vasco Da Gama came on stage between 1460-1524, got through Cape Verde and rounded the Cape of Good Hope (20th march 1499). Thus, the routes to the Indies were opened. Diego Dias took another flank, reaching Madagascar (1500), Ascension Island (1501) and Islands of St. Helena (1502). With these breath-taking voyages of discovery it became possible to cross the Atlantic directly without passing through the harsh West African Coast. The Mediterranean had always been the centre of attraction. It united North Africa and Europe. When it fell into the hands of Islam, Europe, particularly Portugal and Spain sought for alternative routes. Islam could not match the Christian nations in the mastery of the sea in quest of economic prosperity. It therefore took the Portuguese nearly 100 years (1415-1498) to reconnoiter the precise circumference of Africa. In this way trans-Atlantic trade replaced Trans Saharan trade. Reason being that on the other side of the Atlantic, Christopher Columbus had in 1492 set foot on the new world. Lands that prove very suitable for sugar, cotton, tobacco, and indigo plantations.

Author : Anonim
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 128 pages
File Size : 52,7 Mb
Release : 2007
Category : Electronic
ISBN : OCLC:907361266

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Discourse on colonialism by Anonim Pdf

Author : Norman Dwight Harris
Publisher : Palala Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 52,8 Mb
Release : 2016-05-18
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 1357181841

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Intervention and Colonization in Africa by Norman Dwight Harris Pdf

This work has been selected by scholars as being culturally important, and is part of the knowledge base of civilization as we know it. This work was reproduced from the original artifact, and remains as true to the original work as possible. Therefore, you will see the original copyright references, library stamps (as most of these works have been housed in our most important libraries around the world), and other notations in the work.This work is in the public domain in the United States of America, and possibly other nations. Within the United States, you may freely copy and distribute this work, as no entity (individual or corporate) has a copyright on the body of the work.As a reproduction of a historical artifact, this work may contain missing or blurred pages, poor pictures, errant marks, etc. Scholars believe, and we concur, that this work is important enough to be preserved, reproduced, and made generally available to the public. We appreciate your support of the preservation process, and thank you for being an important part of keeping this knowledge alive and relevant.

Author : Nina Berman,Klaus Muehlhahn,Patrice Nganang
Publisher : University of Michigan Press
Page : 349 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 2014-01-28
Category : History
ISBN : 9780472029709

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German Colonialism Revisited by Nina Berman,Klaus Muehlhahn,Patrice Nganang Pdf

German Colonialism Revisited brings together military historians, art historians, literary scholars, cultural theorists, and linguists to address a range of issues surrounding colonized African, Asian, and Oceanic people’s creative reactions to and interactions with German colonialism. This scholarship sheds new light on local power dynamics; agency; and economic, cultural, and social networks that preceded and, as some now argue, ultimately structured German colonial rule. Going beyond issues of resistance, these essays present colonialism as a shared event from which both the colonized and the colonizers emerged changed.

Author : Nancy Christie,Michael Gauvreau,Matthew Gerber
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 365 pages
File Size : 53,7 Mb
Release : 2021
Category : History
ISBN : 1000193837

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Voices in the Legal Archives in the French Colonial World by Nancy Christie,Michael Gauvreau,Matthew Gerber Pdf

The overall goal of this volume is to elaborate a more sophisticated "social history of colonialism" by focusing largely on the eighteenth century, extending roughly from 1700 until the conclusion of the Age of Revolutions in the 1830s. By critically examining legal practices and litigation in the French colonial world, in both its Atlantic and Oceanic extensions, this volume of essays has sought to interrogate the naturalized equation between law and empire, an idea premised on the idea of law as a set of doctrines and codified procedures originating in the metropolis and then transmitted to the colonies. This book advances new approaches and methods in writing a history of the French empire, one which views state authority as more unstable and contested. Voices in the Legal Archives proposes to remedy the under-theorized state of France's first colonial empire, as opposed to its post-1830 imperial expressions empire, which have garnered far more scholarly attention

Author : David Kenneth Fieldhouse
Publisher : Weidenfeld & Nicolson
Page : 168 pages
File Size : 54,9 Mb
Release : 1981
Category : Political Science
ISBN : STANFORD:36105039005850

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Colonialism, 1870-1945 by David Kenneth Fieldhouse Pdf

Author : Patrick Manning
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 446 pages
File Size : 55,7 Mb
Release : 1982
Category : Benin
ISBN : OCLC:1158732788

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Slavery, colonialism and economic growth in Dahomey, 1640 - 1960 by Patrick Manning Pdf

Author : Uta Fenske,Daniel Groth,Klaus-Michael Guse,Bärbel P. Kuhn
Publisher : Peter Lang Gmbh, Internationaler Verlag Der Wissenschaften
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2015
Category : Colonization
ISBN : 3631665997

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Colonialism and Decolonization in National Historical Cultures and Memory Politics in Europe by Uta Fenske,Daniel Groth,Klaus-Michael Guse,Bärbel P. Kuhn Pdf

This volume contains novel and transnationally useful sources, as well as teaching modules for cutting-edge history lessons across European schools. Concepts from the fields of Memory Cultures, New Imperial History, Postcolonial Studies and Transnational History have been applied to the researched topics and the teaching modules.

Author : Joan G. Fairweather
Publisher : University of Calgary Press
Page : 286 pages
File Size : 52,5 Mb
Release : 2006
Category : History
ISBN : 9781552381922

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A Common Hunger by Joan G. Fairweather Pdf

The impact of colonial dispossession and the subsequent social and political ramifications places a unique burden on governments having to establish equitable means of addressing previous injustices. This book considers the efforts by both Canada and South Africa to reconcile the damage left by colonial expansion, in part, looking back with a critical eye, but also pointing the way towards a solution that will satisfy the common need for human dignity