Corinne A Kratz
Datos Biográficos
| ID | 82070 |
|---|---|
| NOMBRE | Corinne A Kratz |
| NOMBRES | Corinne A |
| APELLIDO | Kratz |
| FIRMA | KRATZ C A |
| AFILIACIONES | Emory University |
| VERIFICADO | No |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 45 |
| TOTAL DE CITAS | 139 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 43 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 2 |
| PRIMER AÑO DE PUBLICACIÓN | 1980 |
| AÑO MÁS RECIENTE DE PUBLICACIÓN | 2022 |
| ÍNDICE H | 8 |
Continental Collaboration
Other essays in this issue sketch the range and depth of Doran H. Ross's research on Ghanaian arts, his enormous role at the Fowler Museum, and groundbreaking exhibition projects developed during his tenure. Beyond all that, Doran also put his prodigious energy and intellect to work in another arena: working with diverse organizations and programs to strengthen museum and heritage institutions on the African continent and to provide opportunities…
Performance, Ritual
From mugshots to movie stars
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Urban secrets? Affinities and anthropologies of South African cities
This paper reflects on the discussions of a collective of academics in and around Johannesburg, Africa's iconic city built on the extractive capital of gold mining. Captured aptly in William Kentridge's art film Johannesburg: Second Greatest City after Paris (1989), the city is brought into an imaginary relationship with a romanticised Parisian experience. This comparison is taken up through an endeavour to read, re-read, imagine and re-imagine J…
Afterword Uncertain trajectories and refigured social worlds
Drawn from East, West, Central and Southern Africa, the case studies in this special issue build on several decades of important work on photography in Africa. That work has examined colonial photography and postcards, studio work from colonial times to the present, activist photography, photojournalism, and artists who work with photographic images. It has addressed issues of representation, portraiture, aesthetics, self-fashioning, identities, …
Kinship in Action, Kinship in Flux
For Okiek in Kenya, marriage arrangement is a nexus where transformations of personhood and social relations, changes in land tenure, and shifting state engagements come together in ways that shape individual and family lives as well as communities. This article sketches transformations in Okiek life and marriage arrangement and considers how Okiek have managed interlineage discussions central to marriage arrangement. It explores the social dynam…
The Case of the Recurring Wodaabe
The Wodaabe people of the Sahel have been the subject of over seventeen documentary films—indeed, in both 1988 and 2007, three were released (Table 1). Filmmakers from Robert Gardner and Werner Herzog to National Geographic to individual researchers have turned their lenses on Wodaabe life, particularly their visually spectacular geerewol and yaake dances (Figs. 1–2). Likewise, Wodaabe have featured in sumptuous coffee table books (Fig. 3), the c…
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Uncertain Images
This work is a book review considering the title Uncertain Images: Museums and the Work of Photographs edited by Elizabeth Edwards and Sigrid Lien
Collecting, Exhibiting, and Interpreting
A commentary on Paul Mullins's article "The Banality of Everyday Consumption," this essay engages questions concerning domestic objects that might be collected in urban settings. It discusses challenges involved in documenting the complex meanings associated with such objects, what happens when objects are incorporated into museum collections and exhibitions, and how museum visitors interpret exhibitions in relation to their own expectations, ass…
Popular snapshots and tracks to the past
Rhetorics of Value
Museum exhibitions are commonly seen as critical sites for the constitution of identity and difference. They provide occasions and resources for representing and reflecting on notions of quality, worth, and other social values and meanings. But how are values and identities shaped and produced through exhibitions? How are exhibitions put together in ways that might communicate particular values and shape various identities? This article begins to…
In and out of focus
In this article, I trace the history of focus groups as a method and consider how they produce and filter knowledge, interaction, and engagement; their nature as communicative settings; and their political-ideological associations. I analyze focus groups conducted for a primary health care project in Kenya that involved health officials, Washington, DC- and Nairobi-based staff, a U.S. photographer, a U.S. anthropologist, and local women from the …
Ideologies of Access and the Politics of Knowledge Production
Eye Contact
Museum Frictions
Museum Frictions
Council for Museum Anthropology
The Ones That Are Wanted
Photography's Other Histories
The Ones That Are Wanted
Persistent Popular Images of Pastoralists
Pastoralists have long been recurrent figures in visual images and other representations of Africa and Africans. Whether seen in positive or negative terms, pastoralists have provided means for thinking about and imaging cultural difference and identity, with considerable continuity in representational forms and themes. As popular visual media proliferated and changed over the past two centuries--from postcards, trade cards, and live shows to Hol…
Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire
Nightsong
Popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Paul Simon, the a cappella music known as has become celebrated as one of South Africa's most vibrant and distinct performance traditions. This text provides an interpretation of isicathamiya performance practice and its relation to the culture and consciousness of the Zulu migrant labourers who largely compose its choirs. In songs and dances, the performers oppose the class and racial oppression that re…
Performances
Performances. Greg Dening. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xvi. 296 pp., illustrations, references, glossary, index
Affecting Performance
Are the Okiek really Masai ? or Kipsigis ? Or Kikuyu
C. A. Kratz-Les Okiek sont-ils réellement Masai ? ou Kipsigis ? ou Kikuyu ? Étude des procédés d'auto-identification d'un groupe de chasseurs-collecteurs, les Okiek (plus connus sous le sobriquet péjoratif de Dorobo), aujourd'hui éparpillés parmi les Masai, Kipsigis et Kikuyu dont ils ont adopté certains traits culturels et même, dans une large mesure, les langues. En dépit de la diversité découlant de ces emprunts, et de la date reculée de leur …
Wonder and Worth
Rhetorics of Value
Museum exhibitions are commonly seen as critical sites for the constitution of identity and difference. They provide occasions and resources for representing and reflecting on notions of quality, worth, and other social values and meanings. But how are values and identities shaped and produced through exhibitions? How are exhibitions put together in ways that might communicate particular values and shape various identities? This article begins to…
In and out of focus
In this article, I trace the history of focus groups as a method and consider how they produce and filter knowledge, interaction, and engagement; their nature as communicative settings; and their political-ideological associations. I analyze focus groups conducted for a primary health care project in Kenya that involved health officials, Washington, DC- and Nairobi-based staff, a U.S. photographer, a U.S. anthropologist, and local women from the …
Sexual solidarity and the secrets of sight and sound
This article looks at shifting gender relations among Okiek in Kenya as they have diversified their forest-based hunting and honey-gathering economy and examines the role of initiation ceremonies in creating and legitimating the structure of Okiek gender relations. Okiek gender relations are founded on a contradiction between complementarity at the level of household production and hierarchy in access to and control of material and social resourc…
On Telling/Selling a Book by Its Cover
in themselves do not narrate. Photographs preserve instant (Berger 1980:55). But of course, those appearances are selectively preserved, just as photographs are used and interpreted selectively. This essay considers one particular use of photographs-on book covers. There, as elsewhere, a picture is worth a thousand words. But who produces them, whom do they address, what do they say, and what discursive form do these words take? Different reading…
Amusement and Absolution
During Okiek initiation in Kenya, the final ritual event before the climax of circumcision involves public "confession" by initiates of their "social debts." Confession is through an intermediary who questions initiates, then announces their wrongs to an assembled crowd. The questioner/announcer introduces formal transformations that recast the narrative and its interpretation. That recasting absolves initiates of their wrongs, amuses the listene…
Persuasive Suggestions and Reassuring Promises
This article discusses emergent parallelism in songs sung by Okiek girls during initiation in Kenya. I relate it to canonical parallelism described byJakobson and others, using contrastive eastern Indonesian examples. The article extends work on poetics and parallelism, identifying another parallelistic structure, and brings cultural forms from the African mainland into comparative discussions. Finally, I suggest a theoretical reorientation towar…
Genres of Power
Genres of power are ways of speaking which have an implicit hierarchy of social power in their performance. This article explores the concept of genres of power through a comparative analysis of blessings, curses and oaths as performed by Okiek in Kenya. While ways of speaking can be genres of power through various kinds of cultural definition, these three genres include such a hierarchy inherently, as part of their pragmatic defimtlon, because o…
Collecting, Exhibiting, and Interpreting
A commentary on Paul Mullins's article "The Banality of Everyday Consumption," this essay engages questions concerning domestic objects that might be collected in urban settings. It discusses challenges involved in documenting the complex meanings associated with such objects, what happens when objects are incorporated into museum collections and exhibitions, and how museum visitors interpret exhibitions in relation to their own expectations, ass…
Persistent Popular Images of Pastoralists
Pastoralists have long been recurrent figures in visual images and other representations of Africa and Africans. Whether seen in positive or negative terms, pastoralists have provided means for thinking about and imaging cultural difference and identity, with considerable continuity in representational forms and themes. As popular visual media proliferated and changed over the past two centuries--from postcards, trade cards, and live shows to Hol…
Rethinking Recyclia
Urban secrets? Affinities and anthropologies of South African cities
This paper reflects on the discussions of a collective of academics in and around Johannesburg, Africa's iconic city built on the extractive capital of gold mining. Captured aptly in William Kentridge's art film Johannesburg: Second Greatest City after Paris (1989), the city is brought into an imaginary relationship with a romanticised Parisian experience. This comparison is taken up through an endeavour to read, re-read, imagine and re-imagine J…
Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire
Afterword Uncertain trajectories and refigured social worlds
Drawn from East, West, Central and Southern Africa, the case studies in this special issue build on several decades of important work on photography in Africa. That work has examined colonial photography and postcards, studio work from colonial times to the present, activist photography, photojournalism, and artists who work with photographic images. It has addressed issues of representation, portraiture, aesthetics, self-fashioning, identities, …
The Case of the Recurring Wodaabe
The Wodaabe people of the Sahel have been the subject of over seventeen documentary films—indeed, in both 1988 and 2007, three were released (Table 1). Filmmakers from Robert Gardner and Werner Herzog to National Geographic to individual researchers have turned their lenses on Wodaabe life, particularly their visually spectacular geerewol and yaake dances (Figs. 1–2). Likewise, Wodaabe have featured in sumptuous coffee table books (Fig. 3), the c…
Okiek Portraits
This paper is part of a larger study of the multiple mediations and interpretations involved in developing and travelling a photographie exhibition that focussed on Okiek people in Kenya, 'Okiek Portraits'. It focuses on Okiek viewings and interpretations of the exhibition itself and of the photographs shown, relating their reactions and commentaries to the history of photography among the Okiek and in Kenya more generally
Are the Okiek really Masai ? or Kipsigis ? Or Kikuyu
C. A. Kratz-Les Okiek sont-ils réellement Masai ? ou Kipsigis ? ou Kikuyu ? Étude des procédés d'auto-identification d'un groupe de chasseurs-collecteurs, les Okiek (plus connus sous le sobriquet péjoratif de Dorobo), aujourd'hui éparpillés parmi les Masai, Kipsigis et Kikuyu dont ils ont adopté certains traits culturels et même, dans une large mesure, les langues. En dépit de la diversité découlant de ces emprunts, et de la date reculée de leur …
Genres of Power
Genres of power are ways of speaking which have an implicit hierarchy of social power in their performance. This article explores the concept of genres of power through a comparative analysis of blessings, curses and oaths as performed by Okiek in Kenya. While ways of speaking can be genres of power through various kinds of cultural definition, these three genres include such a hierarchy inherently, as part of their pragmatic defimtlon, because o…
Persuasive Suggestions and Reassuring Promises
This article discusses emergent parallelism in songs sung by Okiek girls during initiation in Kenya. I relate it to canonical parallelism described byJakobson and others, using contrastive eastern Indonesian examples. The article extends work on poetics and parallelism, identifying another parallelistic structure, and brings cultural forms from the African mainland into comparative discussions. Finally, I suggest a theoretical reorientation towar…
Sexual solidarity and the secrets of sight and sound
This article looks at shifting gender relations among Okiek in Kenya as they have diversified their forest-based hunting and honey-gathering economy and examines the role of initiation ceremonies in creating and legitimating the structure of Okiek gender relations. Okiek gender relations are founded on a contradiction between complementarity at the level of household production and hierarchy in access to and control of material and social resourc…
Paramount Chiefs of Sierra Leone
Amusement and Absolution
During Okiek initiation in Kenya, the final ritual event before the climax of circumcision involves public "confession" by initiates of their "social debts." Confession is through an intermediary who questions initiates, then announces their wrongs to an assembled crowd. The questioner/announcer introduces formal transformations that recast the narrative and its interpretation. That recasting absolves initiates of their wrongs, amuses the listene…
“We’ve Always Done It Like This …Except for a Few Details”
How does any practice become canonized as tradition? What counts as tradition and what does not and to whom? What temporal continuity is required and how is it defined? This essay is about African initiation ceremonies, in particular the practices of the Okiek people in Kenya. Considering the many papers spawned by Hobsbawm and Ranger's book on the “invention of tradition” (1983), it may not be surprising that Okiek also construct their ceremonie…
I Could Speak Until Tomorrow
Wonder and Worth
Transformations of African Marriage. David Parkin and David Nyamwaya
On Telling/Selling a Book by Its Cover
in themselves do not narrate. Photographs preserve instant (Berger 1980:55). But of course, those appearances are selectively preserved, just as photographs are used and interpreted selectively. This essay considers one particular use of photographs-on book covers. There, as elsewhere, a picture is worth a thousand words. But who produces them, whom do they address, what do they say, and what discursive form do these words take? Different reading…
Rethinking Recyclia
Affecting Performance
Affecting Performance
Marriage, Perversion, and Power
More on the Turle Collection
Okiek Portraits
This paper is part of a larger study of the multiple mediations and interpretations involved in developing and travelling a photographie exhibition that focussed on Okiek people in Kenya, 'Okiek Portraits'. It focuses on Okiek viewings and interpretations of the exhibition itself and of the photographs shown, relating their reactions and commentaries to the history of photography among the Okiek and in Kenya more generally
Purity and Exile
Affecting Performance
Clothing and Difference
Clothing and Difference: Embodied Identities in Colonial and Post-Colonial Africa. Edited by HII.DI HENDRICKSON. Durham NC: Duke University Press, 1996; 261 pp. (paper). Clothing and difference brings together an engaging and useful set of case studies that detail how clothing, toilette, and related body practices become ways to constitute, challenge, signal, and inculcate social identities and differences. Drawn from a range of African settings,…
Nightsong
Popularized by Ladysmith Black Mambazo and Paul Simon, the a cappella music known as has become celebrated as one of South Africa's most vibrant and distinct performance traditions. This text provides an interpretation of isicathamiya performance practice and its relation to the culture and consciousness of the Zulu migrant labourers who largely compose its choirs. In songs and dances, the performers oppose the class and racial oppression that re…
Performances
Performances. Greg Dening. Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1996. xvi. 296 pp., illustrations, references, glossary, index
Rituals of Fertility and the Sacrifice of Desire
The Ones That Are Wanted
Persistent Popular Images of Pastoralists
Pastoralists have long been recurrent figures in visual images and other representations of Africa and Africans. Whether seen in positive or negative terms, pastoralists have provided means for thinking about and imaging cultural difference and identity, with considerable continuity in representational forms and themes. As popular visual media proliferated and changed over the past two centuries--from postcards, trade cards, and live shows to Hol…
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