Jill Weintroub
Biographic Data
| ID | 102803 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Jill Weintroub |
| GIVEN NAMES | Jill |
| FAMILY NAME | Weintroub |
| SIGNATURE | WEINTROUB J |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3385-2926 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 11 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 8 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2009 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2021 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Admirable Facsimiles”: Coffee Tables, Copying Contexts and Helen Tongue’s Rock Art Book c1909
What can we learn from studying and comparing the methods by which early researchers approached the practice of rock art reproduction? In this paper, we look at examples of painted reproductions made during the opening decades of the twentieth century. We suggest that a focus on the formal qualities of such copies and the intricacies employed by copyists in their work of translating the rock art from its multidimensional many-hued rock surface on…
Urban archives and Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project
This is a special issue of Critical African Studies, entitled ‘Urban archives and Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project’. It is followed by an individual article, authored by Julia Viebach. The special issue, guest edited by Noëleen Murray and Jill Weintroub, emerged through their involvement in the scholarly meeting Secret Affinities, a workshop in critical reading and an interrogation of the city in Africa via Walter Benjamin’s Das Passagen-Wer…
Going beyond Gandhi’s ‘inner circle’ of relationships: Satyagraha House, Hermann Kallenbach and Gandhi’s sons
The domestic dwelling known as The Kraal, inhabited briefly by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and his closest friend in South Africa, Hermann Kallenbach, in the early twentieth century, and remade a century later as a boutique guesthouse and museum named Satyagraha House, is the point of reference for a set of critical engagements with the work of heritage and historical narrative, questions of time and space, family legacies, photographs and letters…
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…
A place that matters yet: John Gubbins's MuseumAfrica in the postcolonial world
The problem with ‘Bushman studies’
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn WrightJohn Wright are research fellows at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand and affiliates of the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative, University of Cape Town. [email protected] WeintroubJill Weintroub are research fellows at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand and affiliates of the Archive and Public Culture Research I…
On Biography and Archive: Dorothea Bleek and the Making of the Bleek Collection
This article describes the making of the Bleek Collection, its formation into a coherent, scientific archive over decades, and the particular role of Dorothea Bleek (Wilhelm's daughter) in this process. It draws on the theoretical writings of Michel Foucault and Anne Laura Stoler to elaborate notions of ‘archive’ as process and product of history, and to complicate its meanings in regard to the making of knowledge about the past. In interrogating…
Sisters at the Rockface - the Van der Riet Twins and Dorothea Bleek's Rock Art Research and Publishing, 1932-1940
This article discusses the processes, networks and contingencies underlying the making of scientific knowledge in the field, theorising these in relation to scholarship dealing with the field sciences which has engaged with the dynamics of ‘the field’ as complex site and context of knowledge production in particular disciplines. Drawing on the archive and scholarship of Dorothea Bleek, it examines a particular field research project centred on th…
The problem with ‘Bushman studies’
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn WrightJohn Wright are research fellows at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand and affiliates of the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative, University of Cape Town. [email protected] WeintroubJill Weintroub are research fellows at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand and affiliates of the Archive and Public Culture Research I…
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…
On Biography and Archive: Dorothea Bleek and the Making of the Bleek Collection
This article describes the making of the Bleek Collection, its formation into a coherent, scientific archive over decades, and the particular role of Dorothea Bleek (Wilhelm's daughter) in this process. It draws on the theoretical writings of Michel Foucault and Anne Laura Stoler to elaborate notions of ‘archive’ as process and product of history, and to complicate its meanings in regard to the making of knowledge about the past. In interrogating…
Sisters at the Rockface - the Van der Riet Twins and Dorothea Bleek's Rock Art Research and Publishing, 1932-1940
This article discusses the processes, networks and contingencies underlying the making of scientific knowledge in the field, theorising these in relation to scholarship dealing with the field sciences which has engaged with the dynamics of ‘the field’ as complex site and context of knowledge production in particular disciplines. Drawing on the archive and scholarship of Dorothea Bleek, it examines a particular field research project centred on th…
Admirable Facsimiles”: Coffee Tables, Copying Contexts and Helen Tongue’s Rock Art Book c1909
What can we learn from studying and comparing the methods by which early researchers approached the practice of rock art reproduction? In this paper, we look at examples of painted reproductions made during the opening decades of the twentieth century. We suggest that a focus on the formal qualities of such copies and the intricacies employed by copyists in their work of translating the rock art from its multidimensional many-hued rock surface on…
Sisters at the Rockface - the Van der Riet Twins and Dorothea Bleek's Rock Art Research and Publishing, 1932-1940
This article discusses the processes, networks and contingencies underlying the making of scientific knowledge in the field, theorising these in relation to scholarship dealing with the field sciences which has engaged with the dynamics of ‘the field’ as complex site and context of knowledge production in particular disciplines. Drawing on the archive and scholarship of Dorothea Bleek, it examines a particular field research project centred on th…
On Biography and Archive: Dorothea Bleek and the Making of the Bleek Collection
This article describes the making of the Bleek Collection, its formation into a coherent, scientific archive over decades, and the particular role of Dorothea Bleek (Wilhelm's daughter) in this process. It draws on the theoretical writings of Michel Foucault and Anne Laura Stoler to elaborate notions of ‘archive’ as process and product of history, and to complicate its meanings in regard to the making of knowledge about the past. In interrogating…
The problem with ‘Bushman studies’
Additional informationNotes on contributorsJohn WrightJohn Wright are research fellows at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand and affiliates of the Archive and Public Culture Research Initiative, University of Cape Town. [email protected] WeintroubJill Weintroub are research fellows at the Rock Art Research Institute, University of the Witwatersrand and affiliates of the Archive and Public Culture Research I…
A place that matters yet: John Gubbins's MuseumAfrica in the postcolonial world
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…
Urban archives and Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project
This is a special issue of Critical African Studies, entitled ‘Urban archives and Walter Benjamin's The Arcades Project’. It is followed by an individual article, authored by Julia Viebach. The special issue, guest edited by Noëleen Murray and Jill Weintroub, emerged through their involvement in the scholarly meeting Secret Affinities, a workshop in critical reading and an interrogation of the city in Africa via Walter Benjamin’s Das Passagen-Wer…
Going beyond Gandhi’s ‘inner circle’ of relationships: Satyagraha House, Hermann Kallenbach and Gandhi’s sons
The domestic dwelling known as The Kraal, inhabited briefly by Mohandas Karamchand Gandhi and his closest friend in South Africa, Hermann Kallenbach, in the early twentieth century, and remade a century later as a boutique guesthouse and museum named Satyagraha House, is the point of reference for a set of critical engagements with the work of heritage and historical narrative, questions of time and space, family legacies, photographs and letters…
Admirable Facsimiles”: Coffee Tables, Copying Contexts and Helen Tongue’s Rock Art Book c1909
What can we learn from studying and comparing the methods by which early researchers approached the practice of rock art reproduction? In this paper, we look at examples of painted reproductions made during the opening decades of the twentieth century. We suggest that a focus on the formal qualities of such copies and the intricacies employed by copyists in their work of translating the rock art from its multidimensional many-hued rock surface on…
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