{"id":6367,"date":"2023-03-13T15:54:03","date_gmt":"2023-03-13T13:54:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/?p=6367"},"modified":"2025-07-03T15:44:08","modified_gmt":"2025-07-03T13:44:08","slug":"fifth-issue-of-sources-materials-fieldwork-in-african-studies","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/uncategorized\/fifth-issue-of-sources-materials-fieldwork-in-african-studies\/","title":{"rendered":"Sources. Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies, N\u00b05 “Varia” (2022)"},"content":{"rendered":"\n
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Sources. Mat\u00e9riaux & terrain en \u00e9tudes africaines<\/a><\/em>, n\u00b0 5, Varia<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

[English version below<\/em>]<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Ce\ncinqui\u00e8me num\u00e9ro de Sources<\/em> propose une fois encore de m\u00ealer les\napproches, les m\u00e9thodes et les langages de la recherche en \u00e9tudes africaines. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Varia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

L’article de Justin Pearce<\/a> analyse la fabrication d\u2019imaginaires\nr\u00e9volutionnaires \u00e0 travers des inscriptions trouv\u00e9es dans d’anciens camps\nd’entra\u00eenement en Angola. Claire Riffard questionne l\u2019usage du num\u00e9rique dans\nla recherche sur la cr\u00e9ation\nlitt\u00e9raire africaine<\/a>. L\u2019informatisation de la recherche est \u00e9galement au c\u0153ur de l\u2019article\nd\u2019Hala Bayoumi, qui revient le travail de conception d\u2019une cartographie interactive fond\u00e9e sur les\nrecensements \u00e9gyptiens<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Savoirs\nenvironnementaux, suppl\u00e9ment au num\u00e9ro sp\u00e9cial <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enrico\nIlle et Mohamed Salah interrogent les explications donn\u00e9es \u00e0 des feux de palmiers-dattiers au\nSoudan<\/a>,\nen utilisant les entretiens d\u00e9ambul\u00e9s dans les lieux d\u2019incendie pour produire\ndes sources compl\u00e9mentaires, le long d\u2019un article hors-norme. Christian\nSeignobos revient, avec \u00c9milie Guitard, sur le r\u00f4le du dessin dans l\u2019approche des relations des hommes \u00e0 la nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources\npour l\u2019histoire du g\u00e9nocide des Tutsi au Rwanda<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Un\nmini-dossier vient poursuivre le travail \u00e9ditorial commun men\u00e9 avec la Revue\nd\u2019histoire contemporaine de l\u2019Afrique<\/em> sur l\u2019histoire du g\u00e9nocide des Tutsi\nau Rwanda. Ma\u00ebline Le Lay propose une r\u00e9flexion sur l\u2019exp\u00e9rience th\u00e9\u00e2trale comme source pour cette histoire<\/a>. Cet article est compl\u00e9t\u00e9 par\nla traduction en kinyarwanda\nde l’entretien<\/a> men\u00e9 par Florent Piton avec des historiens rwandais sur la question de\nl’utilisation des sources locales pour \u00e9crire l’histoire du g\u00e9nocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Dans\nl\u2019atelier des archives num\u00e9riques<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valmont\nLayne conclut en nous invitant \u00e0 r\u00e9fl\u00e9chir \u00e0 la ru\u00e9e vers les technologies num\u00e9riques depuis l’Afrique du Sud<\/a>, \u00e0 travers le prisme des\nin\u00e9galit\u00e9s d’acc\u00e8s et de circulation des savoirs entre le Nord et le Sud.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Nous\nvous en souhaitons bonne lecture !<\/p>\n\n\n\n

La\nr\u00e9daction de Sources. Mat\u00e9riaux & terrain en \u00e9tudes africaines<\/em> :\nhttps:\/\/www.sources-journal.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contacts : sources@services.cnrs.fr<\/a> <\/p>\n\n\n\n

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Sources. Materials & Fieldwork in African Studies<\/a><\/em>,  n\u00b05<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

With this 5th<\/sup>\nissue, Sources<\/em> continues to connect approaches, methods and languages within\nthe field of African Studies. <\/p>\n\n\n\n

Varia<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Justin Pearce’s paper<\/a> analyses the making of revolutionary\nimaginaries through graffiti found in former military training camps in Angola.\nClaire Riffard questions the use of digital approach when researching African literary creation<\/a>. Computerisation<\/a>\nis also at the core of Hala Bayoumi’s article, which reviews the design of an interactive cartography based on Egyptian\ncensuses<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Knowing Nature,\nsupplement to the special issue <\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

In their non-standard\npaper, Enrico Ille and Mohamed Salah scrutinise the causes put forward to explain the fires of date palm\nfields in Sudan<\/a>. They have\nconducted \u201cperambulatory\u201d interviews at the fire sites, contributing to produce\ncomplementary data. Christian Seignobos and \u00c9milie Guitard explore the use of drawing when approaching the\nrelations between humans and nature<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources for the history\nof the Tutsi genocide in Rwanda<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

A mini-dossier provides\na new contribution to the joint editorial work on the history of the Tutsi\ngenocide in Rwanda, undertaken in partnership with the Revue d’histoire\ncontemporaine de l’Afrique<\/em>. Ma\u00ebline Le Lay offers a reflection on theatrical experience as a source for such\nhistory<\/a>. Her article is\ncomplemented by the interview with Rwandan historians conducted by Florent Piton<\/a> \u2014here translated in Kinyarwanda\u2014discussing the use of\nlocal sources in writing the history of the genocide.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

In the digital\narchive workshop<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Valmont Layne\u2019s contribution\ncloses this volume, analysing the rush towards digital technologies<\/a> from a South African perspective, emphasising the\ninequalities in access to and circulation of knowledge in the Global North and\nSouth.<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Enjoy your reading!<\/p>\n\n\n\n

Sources. Materials\n& Fieldwork in African Studies<\/em>: https:\/\/www.sources-journal.org\/<\/a><\/p>\n\n\n\n

Contact: sources@services.cnrs.fr<\/a> <\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Sources. Mat\u00e9riaux & terrain en \u00e9tudes africaines, n\u00b0 5, Varia [English version below] Ce cinqui\u00e8me num\u00e9ro de Sources propose une fois encore de m\u00ealer les approches, les m\u00e9thodes et les langages de la recherche en \u00e9tudes africaines. Varia L’article de Justin Pearce analyse la fabrication d\u2019imaginaires r\u00e9volutionnaires \u00e0 travers des inscriptions trouv\u00e9es dans d’anciens camps […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":6370,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21,16,36,37,1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-6367","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-blog","category-news","category-publications","category-sources-materials-fieldwork-in-african-studies","category-sources-materials-fieldwork-in-african-studies--2","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6367"}],"version-history":[{"count":4,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":8265,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6367\/revisions\/8265"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/6370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6367"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6367"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.ifas.org.za\/research\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6367"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}