Duane Jethro
Dados Biográficos
| ID | 218824 |
|---|---|
| NOME | Duane Jethro |
| PRENOMES | Duane |
| SOBRENOME | Jethro |
| ASSINATURA | JETHRO D |
| AFILIAÇÕES | University of Cape Town |
| ORCID | 0000-0002-3258-259X |
| VERIFICADO | Sim |
| TOTAL DE OBRAS | 25 |
| TOTAL DE CITAÇÕES | 21 |
| TOTAL COMO AUTOR | 25 |
| TOTAL COMO EDITOR | 0 |
| PRIMEIRO ANO DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2009 |
| ANO MAIS RECENTE DE PUBLICAÇÃO | 2025 |
| ÍNDICE H | 3 |
Key Terms for Material Religion 2025
Unlocking Contentious Heritage Matters
Seekers, Seers and Soothsayers
Zombies-Death is Not the End
Musée Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Paris, 8 October 2024–16 February 2025Antillean art is th[e] restoration of our shattered histories, our shards of vocabulary, our archipelago becoming a synonym f
After the fire
A devastating fire destroyed the University of Cape Town (UCT) Jagger Library in April 2021, housing UCT Libraries Special Collections and its African Studies print collections. It triggered an outpouring of grief and concern about irrecoverable archival loss of material that carried the designation "African Studies." This article challenges this perception of the disaster and its significance for African Studies. Moving away from a negative emph…
Belief and Art / Art, Africa and Religion
Belief is a rather jarring term. It conjures up William James’ definition of religion as that which is experienced in solitude. Reprised as an editorial principle it is unhelpful on its own. It can
History Uploaded
This article provides an overview of digital archival projects and online databases developed by scholars and archival practitioners in South Africa since the early 1990s. It sketches key shifts in theory and practice over this period, including the economic and practical perils of digital conservation as heritage and of increasing civic archival activism. It shows that the outlook, aims, and successes of these projects have changed in tune with …
Betrayal | Resistance, Central Methodist Mission, Cape Town, South Africa
A bright yellow banner featuring a biting social justice slogan now frequently hangs over the entrance of the Central Methodist Mission Church (CMMC) in downtown Cape Town. It is one of a series of
Call to prayer
Architectural analyses of heritage and the city largely focus on the visual and physical properties of buildings and sites. Traces of intangible, sensuous heritage such as sounds, smells and community-lived experience are often left out. This article critiques this tradition by tuning into the sound of the adhan as broadcast from mosques in Bo-Kaap, a neighbourhood of Cape Town, South Africa, as a heritage indicator. The sound echoes a history of…
Beiträge und Diskussion
Smell, History, and Heritage
Journal Article Smell, History, and Heritage Get access William Tullett, William Tullett Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inger Leemans, Inger Leemans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Hsuan Hsu, Hsuan Hsu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephanie Weismann, Stephanie Weismann Search for other wor…
Monuments
Monuments are material cultural forms erected in honor of persons or events of historic significance that a collective or social group deems worthy of public esteem. As the representation of values held in common by social groups, monuments are of crucial importance for anthropology. The entry provides a brief history of the invention of the national monument in Western Europe, then critically reflects on terms and distinctions in literature on m…
Ash
On Sunday 18 April 2021 a wild fire rushed down from the slopes of Devils Peak into the grounds of the University of Cape Town (UCT) upper campus. Buildings and student housing were at risk. Studen
Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa
In this innovative book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage making. He shows how the senses were important for crafting and successfully deploying new, nation-building heritage projects in South Africa during the post-apartheid period. The book highlights how heritage dynamics are entangled in evocative, changing sensory worlds. Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid Sou…
Liberated waste
In post-apartheid South Africa the state instrumentalised the idea of heritage to advance a project of reconciliation and nation building. Heritage was framed as an inherent good, facilitating symbolic restitution through foregrounding black public histories and fostering a national culture based on the common ownership of heritage resources. This article evaluates this framing of heritage through analysis of the reworking of material remains rec…
The Commemoration Service on the Occasion of the third Repatriation of Human Remains from former German South-West Africa on the 29th of August 2018 at Franzosische Friedrichstadtkirche, Berlin
Religion in Museums
Unsettled History
Set between the February 1990 meeting of the Wits History Workshop and the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, Unsettled History is a retrospective on disciplinary change in historical studies in the Sou
Hostels, homes, museum
Hostels, homes, museum: memorialising migrant labour pasts in Lwandle, South Africa." Anthropology Southern Africa, 39(3), pp. 253–254
Imagining tradition
This article is a response to Birgit Meyer's chapter 'Mediating Traditional Culture' from her book Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana. It reflects on her argument about heritage as a dominant discourse in debates about religion and culture in the Ghanaian video film industry, raises questions about the dynamics of this politics of representation, and outlines the significance of her approach for theorising heritage. It d…
Freedom Park, A Heritage Destination’
As a national site of commemoration that materially enshrined the democratic values of reconciliation and freedom, Freedom Park is South Africa’s premier post-apartheid heritage venture. Branded as a heritage destination, this complex raises questions about the relationship between practices of heritage formation and tourism. Heritage destinations are considered significant not merely as end points of tourist discovery, but also as sites that str…
Vuvuzela Magic
During the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, a mass-produced, plastic football supporters’ horn known as the vuvuzela attracted worldwide fame and infamy. This article discusses the vuvuzela ’s construction as a material and sonorous register of ‘African’ and ‘South African’ cultural distinctiveness. Specifically, it discusses the production, circulation and consumption of its ‘African’ cultural significance as a heritage form. It outlines the…
An african story of creation
This article discusses the evocation of the sacred in the realm of material heritage practice, drawing on the creation of Freedom Park, a monumental, state-driven post-apartheid heritage project, as a case of heritage formation. Heritage formation refers to the casting of material cultural forms as heritage through sacralizing practices that set these objects apart at the center of social relations and their maintenance as powerful registers of t…
The politics of naming
IntroductionThe feature article on page eleven of the Weekend Argus, Cape Town based newspaper, of July 9, 2006, is about Sunali Pillay Durban Girls High School Matric learner.1 The large photograph of her youthful face dominates the page and is the centre of attention of the accompanying piece as it shows her in close-up head and shoulders shot, which opens up to the background of her white school shirt and dark school blazer. At first glance th…
“Waar Val Jy Uit?”
This article discusses apartheid-era urban redevelopment in Cape Town,South Africa, and the forced removal of the residents of District Six in themid to late twentieth century in particular. It looks at how the memoriesof former District Six residents have been enrolled in the shaping ofcoloured subjectivity in Cape Town. Moving beyond conventionalsocial scientific approaches of history and memory studies, it criticallyengages with former residen…
An african story of creation
This article discusses the evocation of the sacred in the realm of material heritage practice, drawing on the creation of Freedom Park, a monumental, state-driven post-apartheid heritage project, as a case of heritage formation. Heritage formation refers to the casting of material cultural forms as heritage through sacralizing practices that set these objects apart at the center of social relations and their maintenance as powerful registers of t…
Liberated waste
In post-apartheid South Africa the state instrumentalised the idea of heritage to advance a project of reconciliation and nation building. Heritage was framed as an inherent good, facilitating symbolic restitution through foregrounding black public histories and fostering a national culture based on the common ownership of heritage resources. This article evaluates this framing of heritage through analysis of the reworking of material remains rec…
Freedom Park, A Heritage Destination’
As a national site of commemoration that materially enshrined the democratic values of reconciliation and freedom, Freedom Park is South Africa’s premier post-apartheid heritage venture. Branded as a heritage destination, this complex raises questions about the relationship between practices of heritage formation and tourism. Heritage destinations are considered significant not merely as end points of tourist discovery, but also as sites that str…
Vuvuzela Magic
During the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, a mass-produced, plastic football supporters’ horn known as the vuvuzela attracted worldwide fame and infamy. This article discusses the vuvuzela ’s construction as a material and sonorous register of ‘African’ and ‘South African’ cultural distinctiveness. Specifically, it discusses the production, circulation and consumption of its ‘African’ cultural significance as a heritage form. It outlines the…
Smell, History, and Heritage
Journal Article Smell, History, and Heritage Get access William Tullett, William Tullett Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inger Leemans, Inger Leemans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Hsuan Hsu, Hsuan Hsu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephanie Weismann, Stephanie Weismann Search for other wor…
Ash
On Sunday 18 April 2021 a wild fire rushed down from the slopes of Devils Peak into the grounds of the University of Cape Town (UCT) upper campus. Buildings and student housing were at risk. Studen
Imagining tradition
This article is a response to Birgit Meyer's chapter 'Mediating Traditional Culture' from her book Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana. It reflects on her argument about heritage as a dominant discourse in debates about religion and culture in the Ghanaian video film industry, raises questions about the dynamics of this politics of representation, and outlines the significance of her approach for theorising heritage. It d…
“Waar Val Jy Uit?”
This article discusses apartheid-era urban redevelopment in Cape Town,South Africa, and the forced removal of the residents of District Six in themid to late twentieth century in particular. It looks at how the memoriesof former District Six residents have been enrolled in the shaping ofcoloured subjectivity in Cape Town. Moving beyond conventionalsocial scientific approaches of history and memory studies, it criticallyengages with former residen…
The politics of naming
IntroductionThe feature article on page eleven of the Weekend Argus, Cape Town based newspaper, of July 9, 2006, is about Sunali Pillay Durban Girls High School Matric learner.1 The large photograph of her youthful face dominates the page and is the centre of attention of the accompanying piece as it shows her in close-up head and shoulders shot, which opens up to the background of her white school shirt and dark school blazer. At first glance th…
An african story of creation
This article discusses the evocation of the sacred in the realm of material heritage practice, drawing on the creation of Freedom Park, a monumental, state-driven post-apartheid heritage project, as a case of heritage formation. Heritage formation refers to the casting of material cultural forms as heritage through sacralizing practices that set these objects apart at the center of social relations and their maintenance as powerful registers of t…
Vuvuzela Magic
During the FIFA 2010 World Cup in South Africa, a mass-produced, plastic football supporters’ horn known as the vuvuzela attracted worldwide fame and infamy. This article discusses the vuvuzela ’s construction as a material and sonorous register of ‘African’ and ‘South African’ cultural distinctiveness. Specifically, it discusses the production, circulation and consumption of its ‘African’ cultural significance as a heritage form. It outlines the…
Freedom Park, A Heritage Destination’
As a national site of commemoration that materially enshrined the democratic values of reconciliation and freedom, Freedom Park is South Africa’s premier post-apartheid heritage venture. Branded as a heritage destination, this complex raises questions about the relationship between practices of heritage formation and tourism. Heritage destinations are considered significant not merely as end points of tourist discovery, but also as sites that str…
Hostels, homes, museum
Hostels, homes, museum: memorialising migrant labour pasts in Lwandle, South Africa." Anthropology Southern Africa, 39(3), pp. 253–254
Imagining tradition
This article is a response to Birgit Meyer's chapter 'Mediating Traditional Culture' from her book Sensational Movies: Video, Vision, and Christianity in Ghana. It reflects on her argument about heritage as a dominant discourse in debates about religion and culture in the Ghanaian video film industry, raises questions about the dynamics of this politics of representation, and outlines the significance of her approach for theorising heritage. It d…
Unsettled History
Set between the February 1990 meeting of the Wits History Workshop and the 2010 FIFA Football World Cup, Unsettled History is a retrospective on disciplinary change in historical studies in the Sou
Religion in Museums
Liberated waste
In post-apartheid South Africa the state instrumentalised the idea of heritage to advance a project of reconciliation and nation building. Heritage was framed as an inherent good, facilitating symbolic restitution through foregrounding black public histories and fostering a national culture based on the common ownership of heritage resources. This article evaluates this framing of heritage through analysis of the reworking of material remains rec…
The Commemoration Service on the Occasion of the third Repatriation of Human Remains from former German South-West Africa on the 29th of August 2018 at Franzosische Friedrichstadtkirche, Berlin
Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa
In this innovative book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage making. He shows how the senses were important for crafting and successfully deploying new, nation-building heritage projects in South Africa during the post-apartheid period. The book highlights how heritage dynamics are entangled in evocative, changing sensory worlds. Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid Sou…
Monuments
Monuments are material cultural forms erected in honor of persons or events of historic significance that a collective or social group deems worthy of public esteem. As the representation of values held in common by social groups, monuments are of crucial importance for anthropology. The entry provides a brief history of the invention of the national monument in Western Europe, then critically reflects on terms and distinctions in literature on m…
Ash
On Sunday 18 April 2021 a wild fire rushed down from the slopes of Devils Peak into the grounds of the University of Cape Town (UCT) upper campus. Buildings and student housing were at risk. Studen
Beiträge und Diskussion
Smell, History, and Heritage
Journal Article Smell, History, and Heritage Get access William Tullett, William Tullett Email: [email protected] Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Inger Leemans, Inger Leemans Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Hsuan Hsu, Hsuan Hsu Search for other works by this author on: Oxford Academic Google Scholar Stephanie Weismann, Stephanie Weismann Search for other wor…
History Uploaded
This article provides an overview of digital archival projects and online databases developed by scholars and archival practitioners in South Africa since the early 1990s. It sketches key shifts in theory and practice over this period, including the economic and practical perils of digital conservation as heritage and of increasing civic archival activism. It shows that the outlook, aims, and successes of these projects have changed in tune with …
Betrayal | Resistance, Central Methodist Mission, Cape Town, South Africa
A bright yellow banner featuring a biting social justice slogan now frequently hangs over the entrance of the Central Methodist Mission Church (CMMC) in downtown Cape Town. It is one of a series of
Call to prayer
Architectural analyses of heritage and the city largely focus on the visual and physical properties of buildings and sites. Traces of intangible, sensuous heritage such as sounds, smells and community-lived experience are often left out. This article critiques this tradition by tuning into the sound of the adhan as broadcast from mosques in Bo-Kaap, a neighbourhood of Cape Town, South Africa, as a heritage indicator. The sound echoes a history of…
After the fire
A devastating fire destroyed the University of Cape Town (UCT) Jagger Library in April 2021, housing UCT Libraries Special Collections and its African Studies print collections. It triggered an outpouring of grief and concern about irrecoverable archival loss of material that carried the designation "African Studies." This article challenges this perception of the disaster and its significance for African Studies. Moving away from a negative emph…
Belief and Art / Art, Africa and Religion
Belief is a rather jarring term. It conjures up William James’ definition of religion as that which is experienced in solitude. Reprised as an editorial principle it is unhelpful on its own. It can
Key Terms for Material Religion 2025
Unlocking Contentious Heritage Matters
Seekers, Seers and Soothsayers
Zombies-Death is Not the End
Musée Quai Branly Jacques Chirac, Paris, 8 October 2024–16 February 2025Antillean art is th[e] restoration of our shattered histories, our shards of vocabulary, our archipelago becoming a synonym f
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