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Title: | On biography and archive: Dorothea Bleek and the making of the Bleek collection |
Author: | Weintroub, Jill |
Year: | 2013 |
Periodical: | South African Historical Journal (ISSN 0258-2473) |
Volume: | 65 |
Issue: | 1 |
Pages: | 70-89 |
Language: | English |
Geographic term: | South Africa |
Subjects: | biography African studies collections archives anthropology |
About person: | Dorothea Frances Bleek (1873-1948) |
External link: | https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582473.2013.763401 |
Abstract: | This article describes the making of the Bleek Collection, its formation into a coherent, scientific archive over decades, and the particular role in this process, of Dorothea Bleek (daughter of Wilhelm Bleek who was a pioneering philologist studying the languages and cultures of southern Africa in the late 1800s. Dorothea followed in his footsteps.). The article 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 making of the Bleek Collection, the author seeks to offer additional layers of nuance that can be gleaned from situating the making of the collection within time. She describes how the collection has been fragmented and consolidated over years through a range of archival interventions, and the ways in which the particular life and scholarship of Dorothea Bleek has directed this process of archive making. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract] |