Mary Elizabeth Lange
Biographic Data
| ID | 168774 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Mary Elizabeth Lange |
| GIVEN NAMES | Mary Elizabeth |
| FAMILY NAME | Lange |
| SIGNATURE | LANGE M E |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of KwaZulu-Natal |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-8850-0610 |
| VERIFIED | Yes |
| TOTAL WORKS | 8 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 6 |
| WORKS AS AUTHOR | 8 |
| WORKS AS EDITOR | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2003 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2024 |
| H-INDEX | 2 |
Visual Community Autoethnography and Heritage
Cultural heritage practitioners and activists in South Africa engage in community autoethnography both in process and in the product. We spent over seven years collaborating with post-conflict museums that include community autoethnographic products in their tours and/or exhibits. This collaborative research focused on oral storytelling as adopted by the museum guides. This storytelling includes community visual autoethnographic products that eng…
Pathways Indra Congress
The Indra Congress is a global network of community artists, cultural practitioners and educators. An alternative mediator of arts and culture for intra- and inter-personal social change, it provides a safe space for youth to communicate social issues. The network actively participates in a biannual programme where representatives of the different Indra hubs come together in a face-to-face congress. The art-based approach challenges stereotypes, …
One Made by Many
An inclusive methodology emphasises other-centredness and many ways of knowing including spirituality. It draws on the spirit of ubuntu, kanala and participatory communication towards research that results in a product that is “the one made by many”. How this type of methodology can be implemented ethically in the recording and dissemination of indigenous stories and, more importantly, how it may challenge the spiritual well-being of the storytel…
Marking memories
Indigenous ethnography, both past and present, has been used principally for understanding and interpreting prehistoric markers, including rock art. The making of marks or constructing of markers are ways in which we humans create and communicate identity, claim or personalise space, and memorialise these cultural aspects. Cultural practices of the marking of space and place differ, but they may be considered as having a common intra-species mean…
Tracking Decorated Ostrich Eggshells in the Kalahari
This article forms part of the author's research on the heritage of the Upington, Gariep River, area, in South Africa. Autoethnographic methodology based on reflexive theory is applied, whereby the ways in which the values of the author influence the research are made apparent [Robins 2001 Robins , Melinda 2001 Intersecting Places Emancipatory Spaces: Women Journalists in Tanzania . Eritrea : Africa World Press, Inc. [Google Scholar]]. The author…
Meeting points
Voices from the Kalahari
In Search of Methodology
Cultural studies, encounters, and academic publications are composed of layers of subjective experiences and objective data. This article is a personalized attempt to bring together some of the layers relevant to the author's experiences of the Southern Kalahari people. It examines orality, memory, and subjectivity in the search for a methodology through which to represent the 'Other
Tracking Decorated Ostrich Eggshells in the Kalahari
This article forms part of the author's research on the heritage of the Upington, Gariep River, area, in South Africa. Autoethnographic methodology based on reflexive theory is applied, whereby the ways in which the values of the author influence the research are made apparent [Robins 2001 Robins , Melinda 2001 Intersecting Places Emancipatory Spaces: Women Journalists in Tanzania . Eritrea : Africa World Press, Inc. [Google Scholar]]. The author…
In Search of Methodology
Cultural studies, encounters, and academic publications are composed of layers of subjective experiences and objective data. This article is a personalized attempt to bring together some of the layers relevant to the author's experiences of the Southern Kalahari people. It examines orality, memory, and subjectivity in the search for a methodology through which to represent the 'Other
Pathways Indra Congress
The Indra Congress is a global network of community artists, cultural practitioners and educators. An alternative mediator of arts and culture for intra- and inter-personal social change, it provides a safe space for youth to communicate social issues. The network actively participates in a biannual programme where representatives of the different Indra hubs come together in a face-to-face congress. The art-based approach challenges stereotypes, …
Meeting points
Voices from the Kalahari
In Search of Methodology
Cultural studies, encounters, and academic publications are composed of layers of subjective experiences and objective data. This article is a personalized attempt to bring together some of the layers relevant to the author's experiences of the Southern Kalahari people. It examines orality, memory, and subjectivity in the search for a methodology through which to represent the 'Other
Tracking Decorated Ostrich Eggshells in the Kalahari
This article forms part of the author's research on the heritage of the Upington, Gariep River, area, in South Africa. Autoethnographic methodology based on reflexive theory is applied, whereby the ways in which the values of the author influence the research are made apparent [Robins 2001 Robins , Melinda 2001 Intersecting Places Emancipatory Spaces: Women Journalists in Tanzania . Eritrea : Africa World Press, Inc. [Google Scholar]]. The author…
Marking memories
Indigenous ethnography, both past and present, has been used principally for understanding and interpreting prehistoric markers, including rock art. The making of marks or constructing of markers are ways in which we humans create and communicate identity, claim or personalise space, and memorialise these cultural aspects. Cultural practices of the marking of space and place differ, but they may be considered as having a common intra-species mean…
One Made by Many
An inclusive methodology emphasises other-centredness and many ways of knowing including spirituality. It draws on the spirit of ubuntu, kanala and participatory communication towards research that results in a product that is “the one made by many”. How this type of methodology can be implemented ethically in the recording and dissemination of indigenous stories and, more importantly, how it may challenge the spiritual well-being of the storytel…
Pathways Indra Congress
The Indra Congress is a global network of community artists, cultural practitioners and educators. An alternative mediator of arts and culture for intra- and inter-personal social change, it provides a safe space for youth to communicate social issues. The network actively participates in a biannual programme where representatives of the different Indra hubs come together in a face-to-face congress. The art-based approach challenges stereotypes, …
Visual Community Autoethnography and Heritage
Cultural heritage practitioners and activists in South Africa engage in community autoethnography both in process and in the product. We spent over seven years collaborating with post-conflict museums that include community autoethnographic products in their tours and/or exhibits. This collaborative research focused on oral storytelling as adopted by the museum guides. This storytelling includes community visual autoethnographic products that eng…
Sociology (6 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · Art (5 works) · Geography (4 works) · History (4 works) · Media studies (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Anthropological Studies and Insights (3 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (3 works) · History (3 works)