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| Parent institution | University of Cape Town |
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| Founder | Pippa Skotnes [1] |
| Established | 1996 |
| Mission | Research and education |
| Focus | Curatorship, archives |
| President | Fritha Langerman |
| Formerly called | Lucy Lloyd Archive, Resource and Exhibition Centre (LLAREC) |
| Address | Old Medical School Building, Hiddingh Campus, University of Cape Town |
| Location | Cape Town , South Africa |
| Website | https://humanities.uct.ac.za/cca |
The Centre for Curating the Archive (CCA) is a research centre at the University of Cape Town.
The CCA began as the Lucy Lloyd Archive, Resource and Exhibition Centre (LLAREC) in 1996 at the Michaelis School of Fine Art. [2] Its establishment followed two Pippa Skotnes exhibitions related to |xam folklore—"Sound from the Thinking Strings" (1991) [3] at the South African Museum, and "Miscast: Negotiating Khoisan Identity and Material Culture" (1996) at the South African National Gallery. [4] The exhibitions led to books, both of which were edited by Skotnes—Sound from the Thinking Strings: Visual, Literary and Archaeological and Historical Interpretation of the Final Years of /Xam Li (1991, Axeage Private Press) and Miscast: Negotiating the Presence of the Bushmen (1996, UCT Press). [5] Various academics contributed chapters on issues related to "Khoesan studies". [6]
LLAREC was named for Lucy Lloyd and her contributions to the Bleek and Lloyd collection of |xam and !kun folklore and linguistic data. LLAREC was later renamed the Centre for Curating the Archive.
In 2008, the centre established a photographic unit. [7]
The CCA works with several institutions in the realisation of its projects and curates exhibitions both in South Africa and abroad. The CCA collaborates with Iziko Museums of South Africa in the delivery of the BA Honours in Curatorship programme. [8]
The CCA began digitising Bleek and Lloyd collection materials on a large scale in 2003. [9] A digital library system was developed for the collection by members of UCT's Digital Libraries Laboratory. [10] The digital Bleek and Lloyd contains a 280 000-word searchable index, and consolidates materials held by the University of Cape Town, University of South Africa, Iziko South African Museum, and the National Library of South Africa. [11] As of 2024, the Digital Bleek and Lloyd is in the process of being reconfigured and relaunched. [12]
Wilhelm Heinrich Immanuel Bleek was a German linguist. His work included A Comparative Grammar of South African Languages and his great project jointly executed with Lucy Lloyd: The Bleek and Lloyd Archive of ǀxam and !kun texts. A short form of this eventually reached press with Specimens of Bushman Folklore, which Laurens van der Post drew on heavily.
The University of Cape Town (UCT) is a public research university in Cape Town, South Africa. Established in 1829 as the South African College, it was granted full university status in 1918, making it the oldest university in South Africa and the oldest university in Sub-Saharan Africa in continuous operation.
ǀXam is an extinct language from South Africa formerly spoken by the ǀXam-ka ǃʼē people. It is part of the ǃUi branch of the Tuu languages and closely related to the moribund Nǁng language. Much of the scholarly work on ǀXam was performed by Wilhelm Bleek, a German linguist of the 19th century, who studied a variety of ǀXam spoken at Achterveld, and another spoken at Strandberg and Katkop while working with ǁKabbo, Diaǃkwāin, ǀAǃkúṅta, ǃKweiten-ta-ǁKen, ǀHaṅǂkassʼō and other speakers. The surviving corpus of ǀXam comes from the stories told by and vocabulary recorded from these individuals in the Bleek and Lloyd Collection.
The Humanities Advanced Technology and Information Institute (HATII) was a research and teaching institute at the University of Glasgow in Scotland. It was established in 1997 with Professor Seamus Ross as Founding Director until 2009. HATII led research in archival and library science and in information/knowledge management. Research strengths were in the areas of humanities computing, digitisation, digital curation and preservation, and archives and records management.
The McGregor Museum in Kimberley, South Africa, originally known as the Alexander McGregor Memorial Museum, is a multidisciplinary museum which serves Kimberley and the Northern Cape, established in 1907.
The Iziko South African Museum, formerly the South African Museum, is a South African national museum located in Cape Town. The museum was founded in 1825, the first in the country. It has been on its present site in the Company's Garden since 1897. The museum houses important African zoology, palaeontology, and archaeology collections.
Lucy Catherine Lloyd was the creator, along with Wilhelm Bleek, of the 19th-century archive of ǀXam and !Kung texts.
The Michaelis School of Fine Art is a public tertiary art school in the Cape Town suburb of Gardens. It was founded in 1925 and is named after its benefactor, Max Michaelis. It is the Fine Arts department of the University of Cape Town. There are three research institutions associated with the school, namely The Lucy Lloyd Archive, Research and Exhibition Centre (LLAREC), the Centre for Curating the Archive (CCA) and the Katrine Harries Print Cabinet, which has been instrumental in promoting printmaking as well as conserving and exhibiting prints in the collection.The major graduate degree offered at the School is the Master of Fine Art where students work in both new and traditional fine art disciplines.
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ǃKweiten-ta-ǁKen was a noted ǀXam (San) chronicler of ǀXam culture and knowledge. She played an important role in contributing to the Bleek and Lloyd archive of "Specimens of Bushman Folklore" providing a female perspective on the life, rituals, and beliefs of |Xam society. She was the primary source on ǀXam folklore, customs, and coming-of-age rites. She travelled to the Cape in June 1874 with her family and stayed until January 1875 during which she was interviewed by Wilhelm Bleek and Lucy Lloyd. She was from the Katkop mountains north west of Brandvlei in what is today South Africa.
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