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South Sudan became independent in 2011 after decades of rebel wars with the Government of Sudan. Independence prompted discussions about South Sudanese identity and shared history, in which material objects and cultural heritage featured as vitally important resources. However, the long-term effects of colonialism and conflict had largely precluded any concerted attempts to preserve material culture within the country; museums remained in Khartoum, the capital of the formally united Sudan. Furthermore, tens of thousands of objects had been removed from what is now South Sudan during the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to museum and private collections around the world.Up to now there have been few attempts to reconnect the history of these South Sudanese museum collections with people in or from South Sudan. Pieces of a Nation is the first extended study of South Sudanese material cultural heritage in museum collections and beyond.The chapters discuss a range of different objects and practices - from museum objects taken from South Sudan in the context of enslavement and colonialism in the nineteenth and twentieth centuries to efforts by South Sudanese to preserve their country's cultural heritage during recent conflicts.With essays by 32 contributors in Europe, South Sudan, Uganda and Australia, this book delivers a unique range of perspectives on museum objects from South Sudan and on heritage practices in the country and among its diaspora. Written by curators, academics, heritage professionals and artists in accessible and engaging style, it is intended for scholars, museum professionals and a wide range of individuals interested in South Sudan, African arts and cultures, the history of museum collecting and colonialism and/or the role of material heritage in peacebuilding and refugee contexts.At a time of widespread, prominent debates over the provenance of museum collections from Africa and calls for restitution, this book provides an in-depth empirical study of the circumstances and practices that led to South Sudanese objects entering foreign museum collections and the importance of these objects in South Sudan and around the world today.
Contents
List of Figures
About the Contributors
Acknowledgements
Introduction
Zoe Cormack and Cherry Leonardi
C19th Commercial Entanglements
From 'Bush' to 'Boudoir'
Zachary Kingdon
'A very Singular Helmet...'
Jeremy Coote and Alison Petch
A Headdress of Human Hair
Nadja Haumberger
Travelling and Talking Objects
The 'Omdurman' Slit-Drum
John Mack
A Talking Drum
Samuel Zanunga Biegene, Takido Zambia Sebit and Sebit Fandas
Music that Breathes Life
Justin Billy Buwali
Like Doves in Flight
John Ryle
Resistance and (Re)appropriations
The Musealization of the Gift
Paola Ivanov
'Captured' at the Battle of Omdurman
Nick Badcott
Car Koryom's Fly Whisk
Douglas Johnson
Small Drum, Wooden and Hide, variable Pitch
Richard Vokes
Problems of Representation
'Spears' that are not Spears
Jok Madut Jok
Out of Frame
Chris Morton
A Dinka Madonna?
Ludmilla Jordanova
An Unused Hunting Spear
Johanna Zetterstrom-Sharp
Markets and Collecting
The Potter of Li Rangu
Inbal Livne
The Market in Memory
Zoe Cormack
Containing the Harvest
Patti Langton
Of Replicas, Refusals and Resistance
Elfatih Atem and Rebecca Lorins
Heritage in War and Peace
New Sudan Ephemera
Nicki Kindersley and Yosa Wawa
Heritage in Displacement
Deng Nhial Chioh
A European Union Jerry-Can
Adebo Nelson Abiti and John Giblin
Because the World is not Ending
Florence Henry Lokule and Alex Miskin
Afterword: A World in Process: Recovering Agency through Objects
Annie Coombes
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