Riotous Deathscapes

Hugo ka Canham is Associate Professor of Psychology at the University of the Witwatersrand and coeditor of Black Academic Voices: The South African Experience.

Acknowledgments vii Introduction: Mpondo Orientations 1 1. Watchful Ocean, Observant Mountain 37 2. Fortifying Rivers 68 3. Riotous Spirits-Ukukhuphuka Izizwe 104 4. Levitating Graves and Ancestral Frequencies 139 5. Rioting Hills and Occult Insurrections 173 Fitful Dreamscapes: An Afterword 208 Notes 213 References 231 Index 259

"Darkly and lyrically written, Hugo ka Canham's Riotous Deathscapes is a transdisciplinary treatise theorizing Blackness through death. It offers Afrocentric theoretical and methodological resources for history, anthropology, and Black and indigenous studies, as well as critical perspectives for living in the wake of violence." - Casey Golomski (American Historical Review) "The volume Riotous Deathscapes is an experience; trying to review it is akin to describing a meal or experience, a war zone or a love affair, in words. . . . I want to thank Hugo Canham for this language-a delicate corporeal recognition of touch, membranes, exchange of molecules and language, maybe conquest, assault, a mugging or perhaps a love affair, as a theory-method for re-visioning a world of deep, tragic, unpredictable, and often joyful interdependencies." - Michelle Fine (South African Journal of Psychology)