A short history of African language studies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on German contributions 1

Pugach, Sara

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“…These modes emerge not only against the backdrop of the recording activities and practices at the Institute for Sound Research, but also when exploring more broadly the role of the language departments' non-white teaching staff. Whereas Hussein started working as a so-called language and teaching assistant at the university only in 1931, many others began their appointment long before him, starting in 1887 (Pugach 2007). How, I had to ask, is my current account of Hussein any different from practices back then, when I also consider his sound recording as my point of departure and object of research?…”

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“…Concerning the growth of the general and scientific racisms during the Nazi period, Jell-Bahlsen notes: "Like the Nazis, Westermann constantly identified race with culture and language, and although his examples were drawn from Africa, his theories were easily adapted to Europe" (324). Although Westermann's racist sentiments may have been defined culturally and linguistically, and were, for that matter, distinct from biological racism, they rested on people's alleged inferior linguistic and cultural development (see also Pugach 2012).…”

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Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive

Hilden¹

2022

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The Berlin Sound Archive (Lautarchiv) consists of an extensive collection of sound recordings, compiled for scientific purposes in the first half of the 20th century. Recorded on shellac are stories and songs, personal testimonies and poems, glossaries and numbers. This book engages with the archive by consistently focusing on the colonial conditions under which the recordings were produced. With a firm commitment to postcolonial scholarship, Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive is a historical ethnography of a metropolitan institution that participated in the production and preservation by colonial structures of power and knowledge. The book examines sound objects and listening practices that render the coloniality of knowledge fragile and inconsistent, revealing the absent presences of colonial subjects who are given little or no place in established national narratives and collective memories.

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Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive

Hilden¹

2022

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Contact among African Languages

Beyer¹

2020

The Handbook of Language Contact

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2024

Knowing by Ear

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The prologue connects the histories of temporary migration of African soldiers to Europe during World War I with the migration from Africa to Europe in the present. It discusses the absence of memories and records of the earlier migration in European historiographies. It then examines the history and nature of the Lautarchiv (sound archive) at Humboldt University in Berlin, where recordings of African soldiers and civilians, made in the early twentieth century, are held, and suggests that we understand the speakers on the recordings as the makers of the Lautarchiv. In Fragment I, Samba Diallo, a soldier from Bougounie in French Sudan (now Mali), sings in Bamanakan of the war as “the catcher of the living.”

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A short history of African language studies in the nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, with an emphasis on German contributions 1

Cited by 10 publications

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Absent Presences in the Colonial Archive

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