Title Pieces of a Nation South Sudanese Heritage and Museum Collections

Published Leiden : Sidestone Press, 2021

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Description 1 online resource (220 p.) Contents Intro -- List of figures -- About the contributors -- Acknowledgements -- Introduction -- Zoe Cormack and Cherry Leonardi -- Nineteenth Century 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 J. Billy Buwali -- Like doves in flight -- John Ryle Resistance and (Re)appropriations -- The musealisation of the gift -- Paola Ivanov -- 'Captured' at the Battle of Omdurman -- Nicholas Badcott -- Car Koryom's fly whisk -- Douglas H. Johnson -- 'Small drum, wooden and hide, variable pitch' -- Richard Vokes -- Problems of Representation -- 'Spears' that are not spears -- Jok Madut Jok -- Out of frame -- Christopher 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 & Alex Miskin -- Afterword A world in process: recovering agency through objects -- Annie E. Coombes -- Endnotes -- Bibliography -- Blank Page -- Blank Page -- Blank Page Summary 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 Notes Description based upon print version of record Subject Material culture -- South Sudan Cultural property -- Protection -- South Sudan Museums -- South Sudan -- Acquisition Museums -- Curatorship -- South Sudan Antiquities Cultural property -- Protection Material culture Museums -- Curatorship Politics and government SUBJECT South Sudan -- Antiquities South Sudan -- Politics and government -- 2011- http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh2011004450 Subject South Sudan Form Electronic book Author Leonardi, Cherry ISBN 9464260149 9789464260144

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