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The helmet-shaped "mapiko" masks of Mozam-bique have garnered
admiration from African art scholars and collectors alike, due to
their striking aesthetics and their grotesque allure. This book
restores to mapiko its historic and artistic context, charting in
detail the transformations of this masquerading tradition
throughout the twentieth century.
Based on field research spanning seven years, this study shows how
mapiko has undergone continuous reinvention by visionary
individuals, has diversified into genres with broad generational
appeal, and has enacted historical events and political
engagements. This dense history of creativity and change has been
sustained by a culture of competition deeply ingrained within the
logic of ritual itself. The desire to outshine rivals on the dance
ground drives performers to search for the new, the astonishing,
and the topical. It is this spirit of rivalry and one-upmanship
that keeps mapiko attuned to the times that it traverses.
"In Step with the Times" is illustrated with vibrant photographs of
mapiko masks and performances. It marks the most radical attempt to
date to historicize an African performative tradition.
Out of History brings together exciting and innovative work in
History and the Humanities. Drawing upon papers which have been
presented at the South African Contemporary History and Humanities
Seminar at the University of the Western Cape, the book reflects
upon how this space fashioned new histories of the South African
past over the last twenty years. Written by leading scholars in
fields of visual history, public history, heritage, linguistics,
oral history and postcolonial studies, the contributions address
critical questions about the production of academic knowledge and
the status of the Humanities in the post-apartheid present. Through
offering a critique of nationalist narratives, the chapters explore
the limits of historical representations, providing new paths to
rethink memory, the archive, creative writing, disciplinary
methodologies and the legacies of colonialism.
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