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In December 1953, Ernst and Ruth Dammann conducted linguistic research, producing photographs and audio recordings of a group of!Xung-speaking men and women at a Finnish mission station in northern Namibia. This chapter examines these visual and auditory documents as constructed archival objects created within a problematic colonial-political context and as part of a specific colonial research practice and knowledge production. Our perception as contemporary viewers of the photographs and listeners of the recordings is always mediated by particular knowledge systems, epistemologies, and media within the archive, which risk obscuring the photographic subjects and the voices of the speakers. Through a method of close looking and listening (Hoffmann), the chapter identifies visual and acoustic fractures and dissonances. These reveal the central role of the Namibian interlocutors in negotiating and shaping their encounters with the Dammanns, leaving a visible and audible presence in the archive.

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„Was soll ich noch sagen oder hinzufügen?“ – Ton- und Bildaufnahmen in der Ernst & Ruth Dammann Sammlung zu Namibia

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    2025年

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  • Lorena Rizzo

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In December 1953, Ernst and Ruth Dammann conducted linguistic research, producing photographs and audio recordings of a group of!Xung-speaking men and women at a Finnish mission station in northern Namibia. This chapter examines these visual and auditory documents as constructed archival objects created within a problematic colonial-political context and as part of a specific colonial research practice and knowledge production. Our perception as contemporary viewers of the photographs and listeners of the recordings is always mediated by particular knowledge systems, epistemologies, and media within the archive, which risk obscuring the photographic subjects and the voices of the speakers. Through a method of close looking and listening (Hoffmann), the chapter identifies visual and acoustic fractures and dissonances. These reveal the central role of the Namibian interlocutors in negotiating and shaping their encounters with the Dammanns, leaving a visible and audible presence in the archive.