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Publishing from the South

Sarah Nuttall

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183 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h17min.
This multi-authored volume offers a deep dive into the history, sociology, and politics of the oldest South African university press.In 2022 Wits University Press marked its centenary, making it the oldest university press in sub-Saharan Africa. While in part modelled on scholarly publishers from the global North, it has had to contend with the constraints of working under global South conditions: marginalisation within the university, budgetary limitations, small local markets, unequal access to international distribution and sales channels, and the privileging of English language publishing over indigenous languages. This volume showcases the history and achievements of the Press: from documenting its evolution through book covers and giving credence to some of the leading black intellectuals and writers of the early 20th century and the success of their works in spite of their authors’ racial marginalisation, to the role of women both in publishing and in the spaces afforded to women’s writing on the Press’s list. The collection concludes with author essays on the politics and experiences of choosing and working with a global South publisher. The collection shows the strategies deployed by the Press to professionalise Southern knowledge making and how local university presses support the scholarly mission of their universities for local and global audiences.Figures Acknowledgements Introduction: Experiments in Writing the History of a University Press – Sarah Nuttall and Isabel Hofmeyr Part 1 Covers and Contracts Chapter 1 Uncovered: One Hundred Years of Book Covers – Kirsten Perkins and Corina van der Spoel Chapter 2 Relations, Contracts, and Books at Wits University Press: 1922–1962 – Jonathan Klaaren Part 2 Southern Contradictions and Black Contributors Chapter 3 B. W. Vilakazi, Ithongo Lokwazi: The Muse of Knowledge – Hlonipha Mokoena Chapter 4 ‘The Hidden Matters of the Black People’: John Henderson Soga and The South-Eastern Bantu – Natasha Erlank Chapter 5 Clement M. Doke and the Bantu Treasury: Laying Aesthetic Foundations for Modern African Literature – Innocentia Mhlambi Chapter 6 Paratextual Framings of the isiXhosa Volumes in the African Treasury Series – Athambile Masola and Sanele kaNtshingana Chapter 7 African Studies, a Journal on a Fault Line – Isabel Hofmeyr Chapter 8 Palaeosciences through Wits University Press Publications – Amanda Esterhuysen Part 3 Women in the House Chapter 9 Writing While Female: Merit, Market and Gatekeeping in Academic Publishing – Shireen Hassim Chapter 10 Writing the (Female) Biography of a Publishing House – Elizabeth le Roux Chapter 11 ‘That Body of [not only] Men’: Margaret Hutchings’ History of Wits University Press – Veronica Klipp Part 4 Reading Wits Press Through Our Books Chapter 12 Book Paradise: Publishing Regarding Muslims and Surfacing with Wits University Press – Gabeba Baderoon Chapter 13 On Academic Inclusion, or A Story of Three Books – Srila Roy Chapter 14 Experiments in Publishing: A Journey with Academic, Commercial, Independent and Academic Publishers – Siphiwo Mahala Chapter 15 The Psychologist Who had a Lingering Hope of Being a Fiction Writer: Noel Chabani Manganyi – Kopano Ratele Chapter 16 Translated Authorship and Language Futures – Achille Mbembe Afterword: Time-Travelling in the Archive – Ivan Vladislavić Contributors Index
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Archives of Times Past

John Wright

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231 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h53min.
This volume critically examines sources of evidence and material from the archive that historically have been used to tell southern Africa’s pre-colonial story.Archives of Times Past explores particular sources of evidence on southern Africa’s time before the colonial era. It gathers recent ideas about archives and archiving from scholars in southern Africa and elsewhere, focusing on the question: ‘How do we know, or think we know, what happened in the times before European colonialism?’ The essays by well-known historians, archaeologists and researchers engage these questions from a range of perspectives and in illuminating ways. Written from personal experience, they capture how these experts encountered their archives of knowledge beyond the textbook. The essays are written at a time when public discussion about the history of southern Africa before the colonial era is taking place more openly than at any other time in the last hundred years They will appeal to students, academics, educationists, teachers, archivists, and heritage, museum practitioners and the general public.List of Illustrations Acknowledgements Editorial Note Map Part I First Thoughts about the Archive Chapter 1 Exploring the Archive of the Times before Colonialism — Cynthia Kros, John Wright, Mbongiseni Buthelezi and Helen Ludlow Chapter 2 A Young Woman’s Journey of Discovery — Cynthia Kros and John Wright Chapter 3 Where Are the Deep Conversations about the Past? — Cynthia Kros and John Wright Chapter 4 ‘Ask the Old People’; ‘Ask the Professors’ — Cynthia Kros and John Wright Part II Commentaries and Conversations Chapter 5 Notes on a Kholwa Writer’s Life: Magema Fuze — Hlonipha Mokoena Chapter 6 An Archive in an Old Tin Trunk — Rachel King Chapter 7 Making ‘Tribal Histories’: The Work of Paul-Lenert Breutz — Fred Morton and Jan Boeyens Chapter 8 Conversations with Sekibakiba Lekgoathi — Sekibakiba Lekgoathi, Cynthia Kros and John Wright Chapter 9 Unpacking Olden Times — John Wright Part III Becoming Explorers Chapter 10 From ‘Nature Study’ to ‘Nature’s Archives’: My Journey into Environmental History — Muchaparara Musemwa Chapter 11 Nervously Entering the World of Carl Hoffmann and His Interlocutors — Lize Kriel Chapter 12 Dreams and Destinies: Stepping into the World of Archaeology — Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu Chapter 13 Life with the James Stuart Archive — John Wright Part IV Engaging with Archaeology and Rock Art Chapter 14 Digging Historic Cave: An Archaeological and Historical Quest — Amanda Esterhuysen Chapter 15 Storm Shelter: Rediscovering an Archive of Rock Art — Geoffrey Blundell Chapter 16 A Lion’s Life: Tracking the Biography of an Archaeological Artefact — Justine Wintjes Part V Conflicting Opinions Chapter 17 A Neglected Archive – and an Academic Pact — Sifiso Mxolisi Ndlovu Chapter 18 Mapungubwe Imagined — Himal Ramji Chapter 19 Mkhize Historians Dispute the Past — Grant McNulty Part VI Further Thoughts Chapter 20 Making Journeys into the Archive — Cynthia Kros Chapter 21 The Archive in Pictures: Visual Essay — Justine Wintjes Glossary Contributors Index
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A Search for Origins

Amanda Esterhuysen

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235 pages. Temps de lecture estimé 2h56min.
Research based on fossils found in South Africa’s ‘Cradle of Humankind’ (bordering Gauteng and the North-West Province) as well as signs of early human habitation in the area, have shed new light on the evolution of humankind and on the significant role that southern Africa played in the development of modern humans. A Search for Origins aims to provide an overview of the history of the ‘Cradle of Humankind’, and of the important human and animal fossils that have been discovered there, for a non-specialist audience. It is the first systematic account of the wider history of the Cradle and surrounding area, and spans the evolution of early plant and animal life, human development and recent and colonial history. A Search for Origins places the scientific advances that have been made against the intellectual and political background out of which they emerged. This approach situates the Cradle within a recognisable South African context, rendering it a great deal more meaningful for both South African visitors and international tourists. The multi-disciplinary approach – from a wide range of specialists – is innovative and ground-breaking.FOREWORD Phillip V Tobias Part 1 Introduction Africa is seldom what it seems Philip Bonner Chapter 1 White South Africa and the South Africanisation of science: Humankind or kinds of humans? Saul Dubow Part 2 Introduction Fossils and genes: A new anthropology of evolution Trefor Jenkins Chapter 2 A history of South African palaeoanthropology Kevin Kuykendall and Goran Sˇtrkalj Chapter 3 Fossil hominids of the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ Kevin Kuykendall Chapter 4 Unravelling the history of modern humans in southern Africa: The contribution of genetic studies Himla Soodyall and Trefor Jenkins Chapter 5 Fossil plants from the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ Marion Bamford Part 3 Introduction The Emerging Stone Age Amanda Esterhuysen Chapter 6 The Earlier Stone Age Amanda Esterhuysen Chapter 7 The Middle Stone Age and Later Stone Age Lyn Wadley Chapter 8 Rock engravings in the Magaliesberg Valley David Pearce Part 4 Introduction The myth of the vacant land Philip Bonner Chapter 9 The Early Iron Age at Broederstroom and around the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ Thomas N Huffman Chapter 10 Tswana history in the Bankenveld Simon Hall Chapter 11 The early Boer republics: Changing political forces in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’, 1830s to 1890s Jane Carruthers Part 5 Introduction The racial paradox: Sterkfontein, Smuts and segregation Philip Bonner Chapter 12 The legacy of gold Philip Bonner Chapter 13 The story of Sterkfontein since 1895 Phillip V Tobias Chapter 14 The SOUTH AFRICAN War OF 1899–1902 in the ‘Cradle of Humankind’ Vincent Carruthers Chapter 15 White South Africa’s ‘weak sons’: Poor whites and the Hartbeespoort Dam Tim Clynick Epilogue Voice of politics, voice of science: Politics and science after 1945 Philip Bonner, Amanda Esterhuysen and Trefor Jenkins Notes, references and recommended reading Notes on contributors Acknowledgements Index
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Five Hundred Years Rediscovered

Natalie Swanepoel

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The last 500 years in southern Africa represent a strikingly unexplored and misrepresented period which remains disfigured by colonial/apartheid assumptions, most notably in the way that African societies are depicted as fixed, passive, isolated, un-enterprising and unenlightened. This period is one the most formative in relation to southern Africa’s past while remaining, in many ways, the least known. Key cultural contours of the sub-continent took shape, while in a jagged and uneven fashion some of the features of modern identities emerged. Enormous internal economic innovation and political experimentation was taking place at the same time as expanding European mercantile forces started to press upon southern African shores and its hinterlands. This suggests that interaction, flux and mixing were a strong feature of the period, rather than the homogeneity and fixity proposed in standard historical and archaeological writings. Five Hundred Years Rediscovered represents the first step, taken by a group of archaeologists and historians, to collectively reframe, revitalise and re-examine the last 500 years. By integrating research and developing trans-frontier research networks, the group hopes to challenge thinking about the region’s expanding internal and colonial frontiers, and to broaden current perceptions about southern Africa’s colonial pastPreface 1 Introduction Section 1 Disciplinary Identities: Methodological Considerations 2 Historical archaeologies of southern Africa: precedents and prospects J. Behrens and N. Swanepoel 3 South Africa in Africa more than five hundred years ago: some questions N. Parsons 4 Towards an outline of the oral geography, historical identity and political economy of the Late Precolonial Tswana in the Rustenburg region S. Hall, M. Anderson, J. Boeyens and F. Coetzee 5 Metals beyond frontiers: exploring the production, distribution and use of metals in the Free State grasslands, South Africa S. Chirikure, S. Hall and T. Maggs 6 deTuin, a 19th-century mission station in the Northern Cape A.G. Morris 7 Reinterpreting the origins of Dzata: archaeology and legends E. Hanisch Section 2 Material Identities 8 Revisiting Bokoni: populating the stone ruins of the Mpumalanga Escarpment P. Delius and M.H. Schoeman 9 The Mpumalanga Escarpment settlements: some answers, many questions T. Maggs 10 Post-European contact glass beads from the southern African interior: a tentative look at trade, consumption and identities M. Wood 11 Ceramic alliances: pottery and the history of the Kekana Ndebele in the old Transvaal A.B. Esterhuysen Section 3 ‘Troubled Times’: Warfare, State Formation and Migration in the Interior 12 Rediscovering the Ndwandwe kingdom J. Wright 13 Swazi oral tradition and Northern Nguni historical archaeology P. Bonner 14 Mfecane mutation in Central Africa: a comparison of the Makololo and the Ngoni in Zambia, 1830s-1898 A. Kanduza List of contributors Index
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