The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts

Erscheinungsjahr 2020
ISBN: 978-90-04-42865-2
Verlag: Brill

Buch, Englisch, Band 37, 756 Seiten, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm, Gewicht: 1263 g

Reihe: Caribbean Series

The Things of Others: Ethnographies, Histories, and Other Artefacts deals with the things mainly, but not only, mobilized by anthropologists in order to produce knowledge about the African American, the Afro-Brazilian and the Afro-Cuban during the 1930s. However, the book's goal is not to dig up evidence of the creation of an epistemology of knowledge and its transnational connections. The research on which this book is based suggests that the artefacts created in fieldwork, offices, libraries, laboratories, museums, and other places and experiences – beyond the important fact that these places and situations involved actors other than the anthropologists themselves – have been different things during their troubled existence. The book seeks to make these differences apparent, highlighting rather than concealing the relationships between partial modes of making and being ‘Afro’ as a subject of science. If the artefacts created in a variety of situations have been different things, we should ask what sort of things they were and how the actors involved in their creation sought to make them meaningful. The book foregrounds these discontinuous and ever-changing contours.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Gomes Da Cunha, Olívia Maria

Fachgebiete

• Geisteswissenschaften Geschichtswissenschaft Weltgeschichte & Geschichte einzelner Länder und Gebietsräume Geschichte einzelner Länder Amerikanische Geschichte
• Geisteswissenschaften Philosophie Moderne Philosophische Disziplinen Philosophische Anthropologie
• Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie | Volkskunde Ethnologie Ethnographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

List of Ilustrations

Preface

Acknowledgements

Introduction: In/Out of Archives

Part 1: Memorabilia

1 Unrestricted Gifts

2 Becoming Brujo

3 On Laundresses, Sergeants, and Assistants: the Arts of the Forgetting

4 Janus

Part 2: Mobile Objects

5 Tracings

6 Paper Voyages

Part 3: Remakings

7 Ruth’s Books: Creating Additional Lives

8 Many Words Do Not Fill a Basket

9 Transformed Things

Archives and Acronyms

Bibliography

Index

Über Autor(innen)

Olívia Maria Gomes da Cunha is Associate Professor of Anthropology at the Museu Nacional, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro. Her research focuses the production of textual and visual artefacts, archives, and modernist ethnographies. She also has been carrying on research on the Cottica Ndyuka in Eastern Suriname.