Foreword to "Performing memories and weaving archives"
Siriwardane-de-Zoysa, RaptiExterne Publikationen (2024)
in: Sayan Dey, Performing Memories and Weaving Archives: Creolized Cultures across the Indian Ocean, London: Anthem Press
ISBN: 978-1-83998-690-1
Performing Memories and Weaving Archives offers an insightful and rare glimpse of a two-way excavation entailing an Indian Ocean world at the crossroads. Here, the lifeworlds, ancestral knowledge, and collective memories of diasporic African communities in India and conversely diasporic Indian communities in South Africa are put into conversation. The spatiotemporal encounters Dey and his participant authors trace bear upon everyday life through these historic reverberations. This work deftly interweaves three spheres of everyday life: sacredscapes (through the spiritual mnemonic), musicscapes (through cultures of dance, music, and movement), and foodscapes (through culinary practices). [...]
