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Reading Colonial Landscapes

Reading Colonial Landscapes. Today’s Lecture. Research Methods. Historical Content. Changes in the practice of Colonial science Interrogate the boundary between people and nature Archaeology (as science) in the Western Cape. Using rock art as evidence Asking humanities research questions.

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Reading Colonial Landscapes

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  1. Reading Colonial Landscapes

  2. Today’s Lecture Research Methods Historical Content Changes in the practice of Colonial science Interrogate the boundary between people and nature Archaeology (as science) in the Western Cape • Using rock art as evidence • Asking humanities research questions

  3. Colonial Science

  4. Pursuit of knowledge

  5. South Africa 1885

  6. Bleek & Lloyd’s work Lucy Lloyd Wilhelm Bleek ||kabbo |a!kunta Dorothea Bleek !kweitenta ||ken

  7. The notebooks • 193 notebooks • 127 by Lucy Lloyd • Others by Wilhelm Bleek, Jemima Lloyd BleekDorothea Bleek Cover of one of Wilhelm Bleek’s notebooks UCT Lloyd & Bleek Collection BC 151 A1 4 001

  8. Words and Sentences Wilhelm Bleek | Adam Kleinhardt

  9. The Lion and the Jackal Lucy Lloyd | ≠kasin

  10. What makes an archive? Andrew Banks, Bushmen in a Victorian World, Double Storey Books 2008 Lucy Lloyd’s NotebooksUniversity of Cape TownLloyd & Bleek Collection The Digital Bleek & Lloyd PippaSkotnes, Claim to the CountryOhio University Press, 2007 UNESCO Memory of the World Project

  11. Getting Access http://lloydbleekcollection.cs.uct.ac.za/index.html

  12. Lucy LloydHonorary Doctorate, 1911University of the Cape of Good Hope

  13. Research intermediaries and facilitators ||kabbo !kweitenta ||ken

  14. Research intermediaries and facilitators

  15. Research Hierarchies The book’s dedication: “To All Faithful Workers”

  16. Observers at the Cape

  17. Capturing ColonialLandscapes F. Le Vaillant, Voyage dans l'intérieur de l'Afrique par le cap de Bonne Espérance , 1790

  18. Cataloging Colonial Bodies P. Skotnes, Miscast, 1998

  19. Archaelogy KridouwKrans Shelter, Cedarberg Koopmans-DeWet House, Cape Town Ostrich eggshell beads & micro-drill

  20. Research methods Conserving Rock ArtCedarberg, South Africa Dr. Chap Kusimba, Field Museum (Chicago) in Mtwapa, Kenya John Parkington in ashelter with rock artCedarberg, South Africa Examining Rock ArtCedarberg, South Africa

  21. Material? | Ritual?

  22. Trance images? Entoptic lines Therianthrope

  23. Colonial Landscapes With or without people?

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