Tribing and Untribing the Archive: Identity and the Material Record in Southern Kwa-Zulu Natal in the Late Independent and Colonial Periods

Abstract

‘Tribing’ – not quite the word we used to strike out in our students' essays in the 1970s and 1980s on the grounds that ‘tribe’ had pejorative connotations. ‘Tribing’ is meant to do the ‘weirding’ ...