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Story Cloths as a Counter-archive : the Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation Embroidery Project
Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2015.
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| spelling | oai:repository.up.ac.za:2263/45926 Story Cloths as a Counter-archive : the Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation Embroidery Project Harris, Karen Leigh Kriel, Lize Van der Merwe, Ria UCTD Counter-archive Marginalised communities Community archives Economic empowerment Material craft practices Identity studies Thesis (DPhil)--University of Pretoria, 2015. In South Africa there has been a growing recognition of community craft projects in previously marginalised communities. They are acknowledged for their artistic merit, and for the fact that they serve as a means of economic empowerment for especially black South African women. This study goes beyond this and identifies the embroidered story cloth projects as serving as potential archives for the communities in which they are situated. The embroidered story cloths produced by the Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation (MCADF) are considered as a relevant practical example of the counter-archival discourse in the archival process. This Foundation is situated in a remote area of the Limpopo Province, South Africa, close to the Botswana border. Founded in 1994 in an effort to alleviate poverty and unemployment in this community, this project has grown into a unique archive, which documents various aspects of the women’s everyday life. This project encompasses a number of aspects highlighted by the counter-archival discourse. The embroidered story cloths constitute archival sources that previously would not have been considered part of the conventional nineteenth and twentieth century archive as they involve oral tradition and material craft art practices. Furthermore, the choice of subjects documented by the participants of the MCADF project, which include everyday life situations, as well as rituals and rites of passage, moves the focus of history away from the dated “grand narratives of progress” of the Western world to include the voices from outside the political realm. This aligns with elements of the community archive which have an important role to play in terms of democratising the archival record, decentralising the archives as public institution as well as giving previously or currently marginalised people a voice. In this case it is women who, due to their gender, their inability to express themselves in written form and the previous discriminatory political dispensation in South Africa (apartheid), would not have been included in traditional archives. tm2015 Historical and Heritage Studies DPhil Unrestricted 2015-07-02T11:06:03Z 2015-07-02T11:06:03Z 2015/04/24 2015 Thesis Van der Merwe, R 2015, Story Cloths as a Counter-archive : the Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation Embroidery Project, DPhil Thesis, University of Pretoria, Pretoria, viewed yymmdd <http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45926> A2015 http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45926 en © 2015 University of Pretoria. All rights reserved. The copyright in this work vests in the University of Pretoria. No part of this work may be reproduced or transmitted in any form or by any means, without the prior written permission of the University of Pretoria. application/pdf University of Pretoria |
| spellingShingle | UCTD Counter-archive Marginalised communities Community archives Economic empowerment Material craft practices Identity studies Story Cloths as a Counter-archive : the Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation Embroidery Project |
| title | Story Cloths as a Counter-archive : the Mogalakwena Craft Art
Development Foundation Embroidery Project |
| title_full | Story Cloths as a Counter-archive : the Mogalakwena Craft Art
Development Foundation Embroidery Project |
| title_fullStr | Story Cloths as a Counter-archive : the Mogalakwena Craft Art
Development Foundation Embroidery Project |
| title_full_unstemmed | Story Cloths as a Counter-archive : the Mogalakwena Craft Art
Development Foundation Embroidery Project |
| title_short | Story Cloths as a Counter-archive : the Mogalakwena Craft Art
Development Foundation Embroidery Project |
| title_sort | story cloths as a counter archive the mogalakwena craft art development foundation embroidery project |
| topic | UCTD Counter-archive Marginalised communities Community archives Economic empowerment Material craft practices Identity studies |
| url | http://hdl.handle.net/2263/45926 |