Pieces of a nation : South Sudanese heritage and museum collections / Zoe Cormack & Cherry Leonardi (eds).

• Introduction / Zoe Cormack and Cherry Leonardi -- C19th Commercial Entanglements -- ?From ‘Bush’ to ‘Boudoir’ / Zachary Kingdon -- ‘A very Singular Helmet…’ / Jeremy Coote and Alison Petch -- A Headdress of Human Hair / Nadja Haumberger -- Travelling and Talking Objects -- The ‘Omdurman’ Slit-Drum / John Mack -- A Talking Drum / Samuel Zanunga Biegene, Takido Zambia Sebit and Sebit Fandas -- Music that Breathes Life / Justin Billy Buwali -- Like Doves in Flight / John Ryle -- Resistance and (Re)appropriations -- ?The Musealization of the Gift / Paola Ivanov -- ‘Captured’ at the Battle of Omdurman / Nick Badcott -- Car Koryom’s Fly Whisk / Douglas Johnson -- Small Drum, Wooden and Hide, variable Pitch / Richard Vokes -- Problems of Representation -- ‘Spears’ that are not Spears / Jok Madut Jok -- Out of Frame / Chris Morton -- A Dinka Madonna? / Ludmilla Jordanova -- An Unused Hunting Spear / Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp -- Markets and Collecting -- The Potter of Li Rangu / Inbal Livne -- The Market in Memory / Zoe Cormack -- Containing the Harvest / Patti Langton -- Of Replicas, Refusals and Resistance / Elfatih Atem and Rebecca Lorins -- Heritage in War and Peace -- New Sudan Ephemera / Nicki Kindersley and Yosa Wawa -- Heritage in Displacement / Deng Nhial Chioh -- A European Union Jerry-Can / Adebo Nelson Abiti and John Giblin -- Because the World is not Ending / Florence Henry Lokule and Alex Miskin -- Afterword: A World in Process: Recovering Agency through Objects / Annie E. Coombes. 

• South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as vitally important resources. However, the long-term effects of colonialism and conflict had largely precluded any concerted attempts to preserve material culture within the country; museums remained in Khartoum, the capital of the formally united Sudan. Furthermore, tens of thousands of objects had been removed from what is now South Sudan during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to museum and private collections around the world. Up to now there have been few attempts to reconnect the history of these South Sudanese museum collections with people in or from South Sudan. 'Pieces of a Nation' is the first extended study of South Sudanese material cultural heritage in museum collections and beyond. The chapters discuss a range of different objects and practices, from museum objects taken from South Sudan in the context of enslavement and colonialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to efforts by South Sudanese to preserve their country?s cultural heritage during recent conflicts. With essays by 32 contributors in Europe, South Sudan, Uganda and Australia, this book delivers a unique range of perspectives on museum objects from South Sudan and on heritage practices in the country and among its diaspora. Written by curators, academics, heritage professionals and artists in accessible and engaging style, it is intended for scholars, museum professionals and a wide range of individuals interested in South Sudan, African arts and cultures, the history of museum collecting and colonialism and/or the role of material heritage in peacebuilding and refugee contexts. 

Ämnesord

Material culture  -- South Sudan. (LCSH)

Cultural property  -- Protection -- South Sudan. (LCSH)

Museums  -- South Sudan -- Acquisition. (LCSH)

Museums  -- Curatorship -- South Sudan. (LCSH)

South Sudan  -- Antiquities. (LCSH)

South Sudan  -- Politics and government -- 2011- (LCSH)

Klassifikation

DT154.8 (LCC)

GN406 (LCC)

962.4/03 (DDC)

Kpbb (kssb/8 (machine generated))