Uncertain Curature - In and out of the Archive
Carolyn Hamilton and Pippa Skotnes
Jacana Media (2014)

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Carolyn Hamilton and Pippa Skotnes
Uncertain Curature: In and Out of the Archive


Fritha Langerman
Cover to Cover: The Contribution of the Book to the Reproduction of Linear, Hierarchical Models of Natural History


Pippa Skotnes
Fugitive Archive: A Response to the Bushman Diorama


David William Cohen
A Curator’s Fingers: Photographers, Subjects, and The Third Thing


Mbongiseni Buthelezi
Fieldwork, Killing Time and Accidental Photographs


Nick Shepherd and Alejandro Haber
The Hand of the Archaeologist: Historical Catastrophe, Regimes of Care, Excision, Relationality and Undisciplinarity


Marlene Winberg
Images of Loss and Abundance: A Reading of the !kun Children’s Material in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection (1879–1881)


Carolyn Hamilton and Nessa Leibhammer
Salutes, Labels and other Archival Artefacts


Michael Nixon
Depths of Field: Photographs and Early Southern African Music Studies


Andrew Putter
Native Work: An Artwork by Andrew Putter Consisting of 38 Portrait Photographs


Patricia Davison and George Mahashe
Visualising the Realm of a Rain-Queen: The Production and Circulation of Eileen and Jack Krige’s Lobedu Fieldwork Photographs from the 1930s


Danny Herwitz
The Creator’s Hand and Curator’s Imprint


Carine Zaayman
Anarchive (Picturing Absence)


Kylie Thomas
Resisting Archival Ends


Litheko Modisane
Outlawed Black Public Spheres: Snapshots of Cinema’s Archive


Alexandra Dodd
The Persistence of Empire: Unveiling Transnational Legacies of Race in ‘Funnyhouse of a Negro’


  • Endnote: a collaboration
  • Contributors
  • Acknowledgements
  • References
  • Index