Contents

pp v-vi

List Of Illustrations

pp vii-x

Acknowledgements

pp xi-xii

Editorial Note

pp xiii-xiv

Map

pp xv-xvi

PART I - FIRST THOUGHTS ABOUT THE ARCHIVE

pp 1-2

Chapter 1 - Exploring the Archive of the Times before Colonialism

pp 3-23

Chapter 2 - Young Woman’s Journey of Discovery

pp 24-34

Chapter 3 - Where Are the Deep Conversations about the Past?

pp 35-47

Chapter 4 - ‘Ask the Old People’; ‘Ask the Professors’

pp 48-60

PART II - COMMENTARIES AND CONVERSATIONS

pp 61-62

Chapter 5 - Notes on a Kholwa Writer’s Life: Magema Fuze

pp 63-75

Chapter 6 - An Archive in an Old Tin Trunk

pp 76-87

Chapter 7 - Making ‘Tribal Histories’: The Work of Paul-Lenert Breutz

pp 88-103

Chapter 8 - Conversations with Sekibakiba Lekgoathi

pp 104-126

Chapter 9 - Unpacking Olden Times

pp 127-140

PART III - BECOMING EXPLORERS

pp 141-142

Chapter 10 - From ‘Nature Study’ to ‘Nature’s Archives’: My Journey into Environmental History

pp 143-155

Chapter 11 - Nervously Entering the World of Carl Hoffmann and His Interlocutors

pp 156-171

Chapter 12 - Dreams and Destinies: Stepping into the World of Archaeology

pp 172-181

Chapter 13 - Life with the James Stuart Archive

pp 182-196

PART IV - ENGAGING WITH ARCHAEOLOGY AND ROCK ART

pp 197-198

Chapter 14 - Digging Historic Cave: An Archaeological and Historical Quest

pp 199-210

Chapter 15 - Storm Shelter: Rediscovering an Archive of Rock Art

pp 211-216

Chapter 16 - A Lion’s Life: Tracking the Biography of an Archaeological Artefact

pp 217-226

PART V - CONFLICTING OPINIONS

pp 227-228

Chapter 17 - A Neglected Archive – and an Academic Pact

pp 229-239

Chapter 18 - Mapungubwe Imagined

pp 240-251

Chapter 19 - Mkhize Historians Dispute the Past

pp 252-260