Different visions. A comparison of the central African collections of W. F. Burton and Irma stern

Davison, Patricia

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“…Thus, the South African painter Irma Stern also travelling in Congo, was seeking, in the words of Patricia Davidson, "a place of romance and mystery", "a paradise lost" (Davidson 1993: 34, 36), which she tried to capture in her paintings.…”

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In the wings of the ethnography stage: Michel Leiris’ scientific pursuit and existential quest

Wynchank

2017

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In the wings of the ethnography stage: Michel Leiris' scientific pursuit and existential quest This paper analyses the attitude of a French surrealist writer and ethnographer, Michel Leiris, who accompanied the expedition led by Marcel Griaule, from Dakar to Djibouti (1931-33), as the archivist-secretary of this official "mission". In fact, Leiris participated actively in the ethnographic activities of the team. He kept a detailed account and recorded the methods used to acquire the objects collected. These methods were not always honest, but Leiris attempts to exonerate the team by pointing out that they were acting for the advancement of science and knowledge. Later, he ascribed ethnography an important role: to revalorise cultures which had been unjustly underrated. Leiris expected that his participation in the expedition would also allow him to encounter a different reality and meet the Other, hence to reduce his introspective tendencies and existential malaise. Realising these expectations were unfulfilled, he chose for his book the title Phantom Africa, which denied "full existence" to that continent. However, his account is of great interest to us because it reveals the mentality and attitude of an early 20 th century surrealist ethnographer.

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In the wings of the ethnography stage: Michel Leiris’ scientific pursuit and existential quest

Wynchank

2017

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Photography and the Religious Encounter: Ambiguity and Aesthetics in Missionary Representations of the Luba of South East Belgian Congo

Maxwell

2011

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William F. P. Burton's career straddled several worlds that seemed at odds with each other. As a first-generation Pentecostal he pioneered, with James Salter, the Congo Evangelistic Mission (CEM) at Mwanza, Belgian Congo in 1915. The CEM became a paradigm for future Pentecostal Faith Mission work in Africa, thanks to Burton's propagandist writings that were published in at least thirty European and North American missionary periodicals. His extensive publications, some twenty-eight books, excluding tracts and articles in mission journals, reveal that the CEM was a missionary movement animated by a relentless proselytism, divine healing, exorcism, and the destruction of so-called “fetishes.” The CEM's Christocentric message required the new believer to make a public confession of sin and reject practices relating to ancestor religion, possession cults, divination, and witchcraft. It was a deeply iconoclastic form of Protestantism that maintained a strong distinction between an “advanced” Christian religion, mediated by the Bible, and an idolatrous primitive pagan religion. Burton's Pentecostalism had many of its own primitive urges, harkening back to an age where miraculous signs and wonders were the stuff of daily life, dreams and visions constituted normative authority, and the Bible was immune to higher criticism. But his vision also embraced social modernization and he preached the virtues of schooling and western styles of clothing, architecture, and agriculture. It was this combination of primitive and pragmatic tendencies that shaped the CEM's tense relations with the Belgian colonial state.

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‘The things they have made will live forever’: the Estelle Hamilton‐Welsh collection in the F.S. Malan museum, university of Fort Hare

Morrow

1996

Journal of Southern African Studies

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Different visions. A comparison of the central African collections of W. F. Burton and Irma stern

Cited by 3 publications

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In the wings of the ethnography stage: Michel Leiris’ scientific pursuit and existential quest

In the wings of the ethnography stage: Michel Leiris’ scientific pursuit and existential quest

Photography and the Religious Encounter: Ambiguity and Aesthetics in Missionary Representations of the Luba of South East Belgian Congo

‘The things they have made will live forever’: the Estelle Hamilton‐Welsh collection in the F.S. Malan museum, university of Fort Hare

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