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E-book The Spirit Of Water

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This publication was commissioned by the KhoiSan1, the First Indigenous Peoples of Southern Afri-ca, resident in the metropolitan area of Nelson Mandela Bay who represent the greater part of the geo-graphical area of the Eastern Cape2. The Chiefs, a group of colleagues and students from Nelson Mandela University, and I formed a re-search group shortly after my arrival in Port Elizabeth (South Africa) from Italy in 2015. The interna-tional art performance and ritual “The Spirit of Water”, which was held on the fifth and sixth of May of 2017 at the site of some precolonial fish traps3, was the first project resulting from this collaboration. It gave rise to a travelling exhibition composed of photographs and a short film produced by the Nelson Mandela University, which documented the experience. While viewing these photographs, the Chiefs asked me if we could go further and produce something tangible, a publication, to represent a sort of milestone of the experiences and the journey along the coast we had shared: something that could remain as an indelible trace of the experience for future gen-erations. It would be a testament, among many others, to their efforts and commitment to the struggle to be recognised as the First Indigenous Peoples of South Africa, including by the South African Gov-ernment and as a people who survived the colonial encounter, with a unique identity which should be free to express itself as a sense of ownership of important sites of their cultural heritage and preco-lonial memories. The traces of their history as the First Nation on the land are scattered everywhere and are irrefutable. However, owing to the long history of oppression and territorial marginalisation of Indigenous peoples, which began with settler colonialism, was solidified by the Apartheid regime, and continues to this day - these sites have been stripped of their meaning and ignored be they of historical, architectural, cultural, or heritage-related importance. A heavy blanket of indifference fell over them and, with time, these sites have become physically and psychologically unreachable; they have be-come places that exist on the territorial and social margin at the same time. They are as if suspended in a spatial-temporal dimension which can be reached and kept alive only through the memories, passed down generation after generation through story telling.

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Judul Seri

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No. Panggil

639.31 MIN t

Penerbit

Italy : Firenze University Press., 2021

Deskripsi Fisik

109 hlm

Bahasa

English

ISBN/ISSN

9788855183161

Klasifikasi

639.31

Tipe Isi

text

Tipe Media

computer

Tipe Pembawa

online resource

Edisi

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Subjek

Fish Culture in Fresh Water

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Pernyataan Tanggungjawab

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