Searching for Sharing: Heritage and Multimedia in Africa - cover image

Book Series

Copyright

Daniela Merolla; Mark Turin

Published On

2017-05-15

ISBN

Paperback978-1-78374-318-6
Hardback978-1-78374-319-3
PDF978-1-78374-320-9
HTML978-1-80064-530-1
XML978-1-78374-418-3
EPUB978-1-78374-321-6
MOBI978-1-78374-322-3

Language

  • English

Print Length

158 pages (vi + 152)

Dimensions

Paperback156 x 9 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.34" x 9.21")
Hardback156 x 11 x 234 mm(6.14" x 0.44" x 9.21")

Weight

Paperback518g (18.27oz)
Hardback893g (31.50oz)

Media

Illustrations4
Tables1
Videos2

OCLC Number

993391021

LCCN

2019452602

BIC

  • JHMC
  • UG
  • 2H
  • JHBT

BISAC

  • SOC002010
  • LAN025060
  • LIT004010
  • SOC005000

LCC

  • GR350

Keywords

  • Oral literature
  • Africa
  • technology
  • multimedia
  • sharing
  • literary heritage
  • digital heritage
  • anthropology
  • linguistic
  • history
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Searching for Sharing

Heritage and Multimedia in Africa

  • Daniela Merolla (editor)
  • Mark Turin (editor)
In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary heritage with the people who are represented by and in it.
Expert contributors interweave sociological analysis with an appraisal of the transformative impact of technology on literary and cultural production. Does technology restrict, constraining the experience of an oral performance, or does it afford new openings for different aesthetic experiences? Topics explored include the Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library, the preservation of Ewe heritage material, new eresources for texts in Manding languages, and the possibilities of technauriture.

This timely and necessary collection also examines to what extent digital documents can be and have been institutionalised in archives and museums, how digital heritage can remain free from co-option by hegemonic groups, and the roles that exist for community voices.

A valuable contribution to a fast-developing field, this book is required reading for scholars and students in the fields of heritage, anthropology, linguistics, history and the emerging disciplines of multi-media documentation and analysis, as well as those working in the field of literature, folklore, and African studies. It is also important reading for museum and archive curators.

Reviews

[L]’objectif de ce livre est de penser le partage comme une méthode de travail, dans la mesure où il ne s’agit pas seulement pour le chercheur de présenter ses résultats aux populations concernées dans le cadre d’une restitution, mais bien de collaborer avec des acteurs sociaux, des artistes, des conteurs qui utilisent eux-mêmes les moyens modernes de communication pour valoriser leurs productions orales.

Cécile Leguy

"Merolla Daniela and Turin Mark (eds), 2017, Searching for Sharing. Heritage and Multimedia in Africa". Cahiers de littérature orale (2266-1816), vol. 84, 2018. doi:doi.org/10.4000/clo.5528

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Additional Resources

The PDF and epub editions of this book contain embedded video files. If your reading device supports MP4 you will be able to watch the videos directly. If your device doesn't support this format, or if you are reading the printed version, you can access the two videos below.

[audio]Extract from the 1992 interview with Joan Broster

Included in Chapter 2: Russell H. Kaschula, 'Technauriture as a Platform to Create an Inclusive Environment for the Sharing of Research'. Duration: 7.40 minutes.

[video]Extract taken from the first movie of the trilogy Le culte de Ranavalona à Anosimanjaka (2014), 290 minutes, shot between 1996 and 2009 in Anosimanjaka, Madagascar. Producer: Andriamanivohasina Rakotomalala.

Included in Chapter 6: Brigitte Rasoloniaina and Andriamanivohasina Rakotomalala, 'Questioning "Restitution": Oral Literature in Madagascar'. Duration: 7.40 minutes.

[blog]Ownership and Cultural Heritage

Table of Contents

Notes on Contributors

Introduction

By Daniela Merolla

1. The Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library: The Implications of the Digital Return of Oral Tradition

By Jan Bender Shetler

2. Technauriture as a Platform to Create an Inclusive Environment for the Sharing of Research

By Russell H. Kaschula

3. From Restitution to Redistribution of Ewe Heritage: Challenges and Prospects

By Kofi Dorvlo

4. YouTube in Academic Teaching: A Multimedia Documentation of Siramori Diabaté’s Song "Nanyuman”

By Brahima Camara, Graeme Counsel and Jan Jansen

5. New Electronic Resources for Texts in Manding Languages

By Valentin Vydrin

6. Questioning "Restitution”: Oral Literature in Madagascar

By Brigitte Rasoloniaina and Andriamanivohasina Rakotomalala

Afterword: Sharing Located

By Mark Turin


Contributors

Daniela Merolla

(editor)
Professor in Berber Literature and Art at the Institut National des Langues et Civilisations Orientales at Sorbonne Paris-Cité

Mark Turin

(editor)
Associate Professor of Anthropology at University of British Columbia