Living on Edge
New Perspectives on Anxiety, Refuge and Colonialism in Southern Africa
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 6044816 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Rachel King (0000-0002-0085-3498, University of the Witwatersrand, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2017 |
| Volume | 27 |
| Issue | 3 |
| Pages | 533-551 |
| Publication date | 2017-08-01 |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | Cambridge Archaeological Journal (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0959-7743 • E-ISSN: 1474-0540 |
| Publisher | Cambridge University Press (CUP) (PUBLISHER) |
| DOI | 10.1017/s0959774317000312 |
| OpenAlex | W2620011153 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 12 |
Archaeologies of colonialism have have called for exploring the culturally dynamic entanglements of people and objects while acknowledging the violence that accompanied these entanglements. Heeding these calls requires attention to how the state and state power were materialized, particularly in settler colonies where state apparatuses advanced unevenly, insidiously and clumsily. Here, I explore how the (mis)understandings and (mis)apprehensions of people and places that accompanied the halting expansion of colonial frontiers were materialized. Focusing on southern Africa's Highveld and Maloti-Drakensberg Mountains, I offer anxiety as a framework for conceiving of colonialisms as epistemic encounters: processes of ‘making sense’ of new people, things and places based on material practices, empirical experience and desire. Through a narrative of the nineteenth-century Maloti-Drakensberg told with archival, archaeological and ethnographic materials, I revisit a longstanding trope of southern African archaeology and historiography: refugia from social distress. I argue that refuge can be taken as a sense-making practice rather than as reaction to stress. I close with thoughts on what an anxiety framework can offer the still-developing field of African historical archaeology
Aesthetics · Anxiety · Archaeology · Art · Colonialism · Distress · Ethnography · Ethnology · Historical trauma · Historiography · Literature · Narrative · Sociology · Anthropological Studies and Insights · Anthropology · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies · Gender Studies · History · Psychology · South African History and Culture
Dove osano le Aquile
‘Waste-howling wilderness’
‘Were they half civilized?’ Knowledge and Reminiscence in the Maloti-Drakensberg
Un-Settled Encounters; or, if Walls Could Speak
Introduction
An archaeology of interruption
Hafting adhesives from the final Later Stone Age layers at Sehonghong, Lesotho
Outlaws, Anxiety, and Disorder in Southern Africa
Memory Work in Mud, Stone and Wood
Finding Archaeology in 2017
Histoire embrouillée
In praise of outlaws
| Citations per year | 1.5 |
|---|---|
| Citation span | 2018 - 2025 (8) |
| Highly cited | No |