Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin - Faculty of Humanities and Social Sciences - Institute of Asian and African Studies

Publications

 

Monographs/ Monographie

2004 

The power of performance: Linking past and present in Hananwa and Lobedu oral literature. Mouton de Gruyter, Berlin. (442 pp + DVD). Review of book:
https://networks.h-net.org/node/10670/reviews/11053/kaschula-joubert-power-performance-linking-past-and-present-hananwa-and

 

Books

2015   Joubert, A., grobler, G., Kosch I. & Kriel, L. (Eds.). Ethnography from the Mission Field: The Hoffmann Collection of Cultural Knowledge. Leiden: Brill. 1145 pp. with DVD A journey into the life of a mission-ethnographer (85 min) and elctronic database.
1997

Keuris, M., Grobler, G.M.M., Joubert, A.P. & Serudu, S.M. Tiragatšo: Pukukgakollo ya Baithuti. Pretoria: Van Schaik. 98 pp. (Handbook on Drama Theory in Northern Sotho written in Northern Sotho).

 

Articles/ Aufsätze

2015 Cultural Heritage and new technologies: The role of tchnology in the preserving, restoring and dissemination of cultural knowledge. South African Journal for Folklore Studies 25(1), p. 21-33.
2014 Hermann Hiery für die Gesellschaft zur Überseegeschichte (Hg.) Lexikon zur Überseegeschichte, Stuttgart: Franz Steiner 2014, XIII, 992 S. Thirty-five entries: Afrikaans p. 16, Afrikaners p. 16, Basutoland (Lesotho) p. 88, Bechuanalang (Botswana) p. 91, Botha, Louis p. 118, British South African Company pp. 132-133, Griqualand p. 309, Harare p. 327, Khoikhoi p. 425.426, Jamenson Raid (Ndebele) p. 383, Kap der guten Hoffnung p. 408, Kapkolonie p. 408, Kapstadt p. 408, Krüger, Paul p. 462, Krüger-Depesche p. 462, Milner Sir Alfred p. 542-543, Moshoeshoe I. p. 559, Natal p. 575, Ndebele p. 578, Oranje-Freistaat p. 607, Plaatje, Solomon p. 647-648, Pretoria p. 661, Shaka Zulu p. 735-736, Smuts Jan p. 752, südafrikanische Union p. 767, Transkei p. 810, Transvaal p. 813, Van der Kemp Johannes p. 834, Van der stel Willem p. 834, Van Riebeeck Abraham p. 834, Van Riebeeck Johan p. 834-834, Verwoerd Hendrik p. 834, Xhosa p. 875-876, Zulu p. 888.
2013 History Lexicon. Herman Hiery publishers, Bayreuth. (Forty entries on South African history - in print).
2013 Religious imaginations in embroidered craft art. South African Journal of African Languages 33(1), pp. 11-18. http://www.tandfonline.com/eprint/EyJXwcVWuIditYRkBsfG/full    
2013 The making of a Missionary (Documentary: Berlin Missionary, Carl Adolf Gustav Hoffmann, 57 min.), South African Embassy, Berlin: Germany, (2013.04.11-22). 
2012 “A friend in need is a friend indeed”: A Northern Sotho Fable. In Heineke, J., Heister, H., Klein, T., and Prüschenk, V. (eds), Kuvuka Ukama Building Bridges. A Tribute to Flora Veit-Wild. Erlangen: Digital Print Group. (pp.73-85).
2011 Hoffmann biography. Yearbook “Nadwarcianski Rocznik Historyczno-Archiwalny”, Gorzów WLKP (in print).
http://www.gorzow.ap.gov.pl/
2011 Rain songs and the observance of the rain cult amongst the Lobedu people of Queen Modjadji. South African Journal of African Languages 31(1) 6-16.
2010 Story-telling strategies employed in three Northern Sotho detective short stories. South African Journal of African Languages 30(2) 209-221.
2010 History by word of mouth: Linking past and present through oral memory. In Mamadou, D., Lategan, B., & Rüsen, J. (Eds.): Historical Memory in Africa: Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future in an Intercultural Context. Berghahn Books, New York, P. 27-52.
2009 Memory Embroidered: Craft Art as Intermedial Space of Expression. In Gehrmann, S. & Prüschenk, V. (Eds.): Klang, Bild, Text. Intermedialität in afrikanischen Literaturen (17) 97-126. http://stichproben.univie.ac.at/fileadmin/user_upload/p_stichproben/Artikel/Nummer17/17_10_Joubert.pdf
2008 “I am a Morula tree on the border line”: From ancestors to Christian prophets in Southern Africa. In (Eds.) Tomáš Machalík, Katerina Mildnerová, & Jan Záhorík. Proceedings of the III rd International Conference on African Studies. Plzen: ADELA Publishing, P.112-125.
2005 Kgašane: Christian Martyr or Lobedu Traitor? In Ulrich van der Heyden/Holger Stoecker (Hg.): Mission und Macht im Wandel politischer Orientierungen. Franz Steiner Verlag, Wiesbanden/Stuttgart, S. 323-344.
2004 The song of a woman: An enactment of social life, and the expressive enterprise of human society. South African Journal of African Languages 24(1) 36-45.
1999 with Serudu S.M. Mmagampone ga o lewe. South African Journal of African Languages Supplement, 8-17.
1999 with Grobler, G.M.M. Joo! ke Morwaka! South African Journal of African Languages Supplement, 18-31.
1999 with Van Schalkwyk, J.A. War and Remembrance: The power of performance and the politics of identity. Journal of Southern African Studies, University of York 25(1) 29-47.
1995 Didascalies as sign-system in the interpretation of Serudu’s text “Naga ga di etelane”. South African Journal of African Languages 15(3) 140-148.
1991 Drama and Theatre Semiotics: Its application to African Drama. South African Journal of African Language Supplement , 1:110-115.

 

Visual Productions

2015 A Journey into the life of a mission-ethnographer (Biographical 75 min), Leiden: Brill.
2013  Visual Exhibition: Creating a Visual Archive. South African Embassy, Berlin: Germany, (2013.04.11-22).
2013  with Jörg Schulze & Kati Biernacka, The Making of a Missionary (Documentary: Berlin Missionary, Carl Adolf Gustav Hoffmann, 57 min), South African Embassy, Berlin: Germany, (2013.04.11).
2008  Das ist Südafrika. Botschaft der Republik Südafrika (Ausgabe 2), Berlin.
2008 Photo Exhibition: Images of Urban and Rural South Africa. South African Embassy, Berlin: Germany, (2008.02.01-08).
2008 with Harenberg, M. & Haaß, M. The Diary. (Documentary: South Africa, 50 min), South African Embassy, Berlin: Germany, (2008.02.04).
1998  with Marais, P. Impala: Safety in the work place. (Industrial training: Safety and HIV/Aids, 40 min), Rustenburg: South Africa.
1997 Bolobedu: Land of offerings. (Documentary: Bolobedu, the land of Modjadji the Rain Queen, 45 min). SABC, Channel 2, Gauteng: South Africa.
1996  Blouberg: The untold story. (Documentary: Memory on the Hananwa-Boer War of 1894, 45 min). SABC, Channel 2, Gauteng: South Africa.
1995  

with Zimmermann, F.W. König der blauen Berge. (Documentary: The Hananwa people of South Africa, 25 min). Transtel, Afrika Heute, Köln: Germany.

 

Short Notes and Reports

  www.germansouthafrican-scienceyear.co.za/fileadmin/dsa12/user_upload/downloads/publication.pdf
  Past encounters visualised and digitised - On returning and archiving indigenous knowledge. In German-South African Cooperation on Science, Technology and Innovation for Sustainable Development 2012/2013 (pp. 52-55).
 

BMBF-Projekt: Deutsch-Südafrikanisches Wissenschaftsjahr 2012/2013:

http://www.deutsch-suedafrikanisches-wissenschaftsjahr.de/

2013 Report: Mediale Aufbereitung und vermittlung des nationalen Kulturschatzes aus der "Hoffmann-Kollektion des Nord-Sotho-Kulturerbes" für die Öffentlichkeit und Fachwissenschaft in Deutschland und Südafrika.
2007 Report: Group excursion to South Africa, 2-13 September 2007, p. 1-6. (Abschlussbericht zur Gruppenreise nach Südafrika, 2-13 September 2007, p. 1-6). 

 

Papers, Presentations and Interviews

2013    The use of visual data as an integral part of research, and the making of archived information more accessible”. Department of Visual Arts, Pretoria University, South Africa. (2013.09.03).
2013    In and from the field: An ethnographic excursion into the life of an ethnographer. Murdoch University, Perth, Australia. (2013.07.26).
2013    The Making of a Missionary. Post-Colonial Theories as a Challenge of Theology. Faculty of Theology, Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. (2013.05.31).
2013    A visual journey through the life of a Missionary/Ethnographer. Presentation: Year of Science Event, South African Embassy, Berlin, Germany. (2013.04.11).
2013   

Helping save a language as well as souls. Interview with Tamar Kahn, “Business Day”, South Africa (26.04.2013).    

2012   

Past[ssed?] encounters, visual(lised) and digita(lised): On archiving colonial knowledge. University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. (2012.10.01-02).

2012   

Orality, New Media, and the Postcolonial Experience. 9th International ISOLA Conferene. Venda University, South Africa. (2012.06.28-07.01).

2011    Schätze seigen, Berliner Missionarschive und ihr forschungspotential: The Hoffmann collection of Northern Sotho cultural heritage. Verein für Berlin-Brandenburgische Kirchengeschichte, Evangelisches Landeskirchliches Archiv Berlin, Germany. (2011.10.27).
2011    Giving the women of Limpopo a voice. Interview with Yolande Nel, published in “Polokwane Observer”, Polokwane: South Africa (2011.08.11-12). 
2011    An epic journey to the Hananwa. Interview with Yolande Nel, published in “Polokwane Observer”, Polokwane: South Africa (2011.08.04-05), p. 37. 
2011    Living Limpopo in the heart of Berlin. Interview with Yolande Nel, published in “Polokwane Observer”, Polokwane: South Africa (2011.07.28-29), p. 12.
2010    Pictorial art and their use of visual language in the communication, inference and transmission of culture. Kulturpsychologisches Kolloquium: Structural Analysis of Cultural Systems. Technical University, Berlin, Germany. (2010.01.25).
2010    Knowledge production in intermedial spaces: The Hoffmann Collection. Workshop: Department of Historical and Heritage Studies. University of Pretoria, Pretoria, South Africa. (2010.10.29).
2011   

Religious imaginations in embroidered craft art. Faculty of Theology. Humboldt University, Berlin, Germany. (2011.06.28).

2010    Craft Art as Intermedial Space of Expression. African Research Colloqium, University of Bayreuth, Germany. (2010.01.12).
2009   

Multimedia Research and Documentation of Oral Genres in Africa: Orality Embroidered. International Conference, University of Leiden, The Nederlands. (2009.12.17-18).

2009    Dealing with the Past, Reaching for the Future. Panel 2: “How to tell – Vision, Fiktion, Manipulation? Die Rolle der medialen Vermittlung”. Haus der Kulturen der Welt, Berlin, Germany. (2009.10.30).
2009 Modes of Message: Performing History: Bringing the past back into the arena of the present. 3rd European Conference on African Studies, University of Leipzig, Germany. (2009.06.4-7).
2008 I am a Morula tree on the border line”: From ancestors to Christian prophets in Southern Africa. Viva Africa 2008. 3rd International Conference on African Studies, University of West Bohemia, Pilsen: Czech Republic, (2008.04.25-26).
2008 Blouberg to Berlin and Back”: The role of oral transmission in history writing, and the contact between Berlin missionaries and Northern Sotho communities in South Africa. Interview on “Radio Sonder Grense” with Freek Robinson, Pretoria: South Africa, (2008.03.13). http://www.rsg.co.za/luister.asp
2008 South Africa Alive: Experiences and Reflections on a Journey. DAAD Presentation, South African Embassy, Berlin: Germany, (2008.02.04).
2008 A ghost, a witch and the benevolent murderer: The investigative figure in Northern Sotho detective stories. Beyond “Murder by Magic’’: Investigating African Crime Fiction. 9th International, Janheinz Jahn Symposium, Johannes Gutenberg-Universität Mainz, Mainz: Germany, (2008.01.09-12).
2007

Mankala va ile magowene: Interaction between extra-textual and intra-textual information in a performance event. Mogalakwena Craft Art Development Foundation, Limpopo Province: South Africa, (2007.09.09).

2006   

Performance und Theatralität: The performance approach and its application. Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-University, Berlin: Germany, (2006.01.19).

2005 Between oral and written transmission: The problems of textualising performance events. 16th International conference of the Studiorum Novi Testamenti Societas, Martin-Luther-University, Halle: Germany, (2005.08.03).
2004 Code-switching in religion: An example from South Africa. Presbyterian Theological Seminary, Seoul: Korea, (2004.05.19).
2003 The song of a woman: An enactment of social life, and the expressive Enterprise of human society. 12th International, ALASA conference, University of Stellenbosch: South Africa, (2003-07-09).
2003

Kgašane: Christian martyr or Lobedu traitor? International conference of the Berlin Society for mission history, König-Wusterhausen: Germany, (2003.03.06).

2002  Visual images in a discipline of words and writing. International conference of the South African Folklore Society (SAFOS) Polokwane: South Africa,   (2002.09.11).
1998  War and Remembrance: The power of performance and the politics of identity    in Hananwa oral literature. 3rd International Conference on Oral Literature in Africa, University of Cape Town: Cape Town, (1998.10.03).
1998  Fieldwork and the re-presentation of oral history. Institute for Asian and African Studies, Humboldt-University, Berlin: Germany, (1998.05.28).
1998 Modjadji: Queen of the clouds. Partnerschaftskreis Zehlendorf B Mphome, Berlin: Germany, (1998.01.25).
1997 Brokers, agents and the social and economic transformation of African communities in the 19th century Transvaal and Bechuana land: The Hananwa's perspective. 16th Biennial Conference, South African Historical Society, S.A.H.S., University of  Pretoria: Pretoria, (1997.07.09).
1996 Ratšhatšha’s war praise poem: An interdisciplinary interpretation of a Multimedia reconstructed text. (Joint presentation with Prof G.M.M. Grobler), Annual Meeting of American Folklore Society (AFS) Pittsburgh: Pennsylvania, (1996.10.18).
1996 From performance to textmaking: Converting the oral experience into print. (Joint presentation with Prof G.M.M. Grobler). South African Folklore Society (SAFOS) Regional Conference (Central Region), Hebron College of Education, Mabopane: Pretoria, (1996.05.10).
1991 Some characteristics of the reader-oriented drama text in Northern Sotho with    reference to Serudu. Sixth Biennial International, ALASA conference, University of Port Elizabeth: Port Elizabeth, (1991-07-05).
1991 From text to performance. University of South Africa: Pretoria, (August 1991).
1989 The role of the didascalies in some Northern Sotho plays. Fifth Biennial     International, ALASA conference, University of Pretoria: Pretoria, (1989-07-07).
1986  Communication devices in poetry with specific reference to Palamonwana by H.M.O.L. Lentsoane. University of South Africa: Pretoria, (May 1986).