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Project Outputs
The project has been conceived on a long-term documentation-reflection-action trajectory. Its aim is to train young researchers to build community archives of indigenous knowledge and cultural heritage. By focusing on the documentation of music, dance and rituals processes that comment on the cultural significances of land, locality and emplacement, the project aims to:
- Encourage the re-memorisation of indigenous culture and hereby encourage public Reflection about the histories, identities and cultural values of a formerly displaced people;
- Explore indigenous ecological knowledge, with particular regard to the way land and natural resources are manifest in Zulu symbolic practices. The project further aims to explore ways in which locality can become meaningfully incorporated into CBNRM processes;
- Build skills in the community through the process of documentation. Capacity building, in the form of digital audio and video recording, sound archiving, and computer literacy, is considered central to strengthening local input into sustainable conservation in the region;
- Construct local cultural resource bases (sound archives) at designated senior schools or Environmental Education Centres so that information can be made available for educational purposes, to scholars from tertiary institutions to encourage further ethnomusicological and environmental research, and to community income-generating initiatives, such as eco- and cultural tourism;
- Link processes and outputs to international discourses on musical constructions of place through the production of tangible products such as the production of a CD series, and a documentary film.
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