Bakhutli: ancestors returning again, only this time as themselves

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dc.contributor.advisorFleishman, Mark
dc.contributor.advisorSeane Warona
dc.contributor.authorMolekoa, Morapeleng
dc.date.accessioned2025-02-28T12:38:20Z
dc.date.available2025-02-28T12:38:20Z
dc.date.issued2024
dc.date.updated2025-02-28T12:35:45Z
dc.description.abstractHow can performance help us remember the past to imagine the future? This study is concerned with the recovery of historical knowledge through performance and the role of an audience in that process. Practice as Research (PaR) is used as a method to identify the role of ancestors in the world of the living. Through autoethnography, I draw examples and insights from my personal experiences with bongaka and my ongoing relationship with my ancestors. In addition, I use performance to enable an engagement between ancestors and the living through ritual process/performance. The ideal of sankofa is employed to frame the research and determine how ancestors could help us remember the past so that we, together with them, could imagine the future. I propose the concept of Bohareng as an alternative consideration of what the future could be viewed as in relation to performance. Performance projects and autoethnographic experiences in the form of field notes are incorporated to arrive at the findings of this study
dc.identifier.apacitationMolekoa, M. (2024). <i>Bakhutli: ancestors returning again, only this time as themselves</i>. (). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Dance. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41064en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationMolekoa, Morapeleng. <i>"Bakhutli: ancestors returning again, only this time as themselves."</i> ., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Dance, 2024. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41064en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationMolekoa, M. 2024. Bakhutli: ancestors returning again, only this time as themselves. . University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Dance. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41064en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Molekoa, Morapeleng AB - How can performance help us remember the past to imagine the future? This study is concerned with the recovery of historical knowledge through performance and the role of an audience in that process. Practice as Research (PaR) is used as a method to identify the role of ancestors in the world of the living. Through autoethnography, I draw examples and insights from my personal experiences with bongaka and my ongoing relationship with my ancestors. In addition, I use performance to enable an engagement between ancestors and the living through ritual process/performance. The ideal of sankofa is employed to frame the research and determine how ancestors could help us remember the past so that we, together with them, could imagine the future. I propose the concept of Bohareng as an alternative consideration of what the future could be viewed as in relation to performance. Performance projects and autoethnographic experiences in the form of field notes are incorporated to arrive at the findings of this study DA - 2024 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town KW - Performance LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2024 T1 - Bakhutli: ancestors returning again, only this time as themselves TI - Bakhutli: ancestors returning again, only this time as themselves UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41064 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/41064
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationMolekoa M. Bakhutli: ancestors returning again, only this time as themselves. []. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,School of Dance, 2024 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/41064en_ZA
dc.language.rfc3066eng
dc.publisher.departmentSchool of Dance
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanities
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subjectPerformance
dc.titleBakhutli: ancestors returning again, only this time as themselves
dc.typeThesis / Dissertation
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
dc.type.qualificationlevelMasters
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