Reading Archives, Memory and Method from Makerere University Debates and Insights

Edgar Fred Nabutanyi, Amon Ashaba Mwiine, Edgar C. Taylor

• Publisher: Makerere University Press
• Year: 2026
• eBook ISBN:
  9789913603638
• Topic: Social Sciences
• Index: Social Sciences

Archiving is a central process of identity formation, community-building, justice-seeking, and both the I consolidation of and resistance to centralized power. To think about archives means to think critically about knowledge, power, and their entanglement with practices of remembering and preserving - as well as culling and suppressing. This volume collects fifteen chapters by scholars across the humanities and social sciences from Makerere University in order to reflect on the unique conceptual, political and practical dynamics of archival practice and power from the Global South. The chapters' analyses of archival work in Uganda range in focus from government paper archives to community museums, oralknowledge and performance. Emerging from a three-year programme on "Archiving Memory and Method from the Global South", this volume engages with questions about the status of knowledge, its relationship to histories of colonial reordering, infrastructural histories, and the institutional positions of archives' custodians and

Table of contents

• Front cover
• Half-title
• Title page
• Copyright
• Contents
• Acknowledgements
• Notes on Editors
• Notes on Contributors
• 1 | Reading Archives, Memory and Method from Makerere University: Debates and Insights
• 2 | Motherhood in the Imbalu (Male Circumcision) Ritual among the Bagisu in Uganda
• 3 | Ugandan Columnists and the Scrutiny of the Ugandan Political Class in the Interregnum
• 4 | From Collective to Individual Memories: Linguistic Implications for Preserving and Revitalising Runyankore Folksongs
• 5 | Did You Say an Oral Archive? Challenges in Studying the Folktale as an Archival Repository
• 6 | Remembering COVID-19:Archiving the Pandemic in Uganda
• 7 | Abazeeyi B’eBama: Memory, Honour, and Compensation of Uganda’s World War II Ex-Servicemen, 1945 to 2021
• 8 | Community-Based LanguageArchiving: The Case of Vocabularies and Discourses of Igongo Cultural Museum in South-Western Uganda
• 9 | The Politics of Community Museums in Identity Construction: Performance of Self-Representation at three Selected Museums
• 10 | Righting Historical Wrongs? The Primacy of Politics in Archiving Indigenous Knowledge in Bunyoro-Kitara
• 11 | “We Came as Colonisers”: Baganda Demands for Recognition and Claims Over Mbale County, 1910s to 1941
• 12 | Archiving Indigenous Knowledge Traditional Birth Attendants Use as Complementary Obstetric Systems in the Toro Region of Uganda
• 13 | Marriage and the Making of Masculinities in Pre-Colonial and Colonial Ankole and Bugisu, Uganda
• 14 | Archival Ambivalence: Status and Secrecy in Ugandan State Archives
• 15 | Marriage and Women’s Status in Pre-capitalist Bunyoro-Kitara: A Decolonial Inquiry
• Index
• Back cover