The ethnographic archive and the poetics of history: revisiting Godfrey Lienhardt’s archive

This article develops an approach for working with vernacular texts in ethnographic archives. It examines Dinka song texts collected in (South) Sudan by the anthropologist Godfrey Lienhardt (between 1947 and 1951), now archived at the Pitt Rivers Museum in Oxford. Songs were central to developing Li...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cormack, ZT
Format: Journal article
Language:English
Published: Routledge 2020