... on his early involvement in collecting, as a clerk at a record store, beginning to collect jazz and avant-garde music, recalling in multiple anecdotes his adventures acquiring prized LPs. The piece ends with a comparison of several kinds of collector, from the “amassing” record buyer to the “connoisseur...

... on his early involvement in collecting, as a clerk at a record store, beginning to collect jazz and avant-garde music, recalling in multiple anecdotes his adventures acquiring prized LPs. The piece ends with a comparison of several kinds of collector, from the “amassing” record buyer to the “connoisseur...

... Chapter 7 focuses on the refusals that were a regular response to imperialist domination in Okinawa. It engages Dionne Brand’s The Blue Clerk in order to read colonial ledgers as repositories of contestation rather than faithful assimilation, and argues that accepting opacity in the archives...

... Hubertus Büschel, “Mr. Tanka and Voices: A Cameroonian Patient Writing about Schizophrenia”: In March 1968, Benedict Nta Tanka, a Cameroonian clerk, was diagnosed with schizophrenia. After hearing voices and suffering from frightening dreams, he consulted “healers” and colonial medical doctors...

... prominent of them was Bonifacio Chuquimamani, said to be an Indian or cholo who had lived for many years in the city and worked as a clerk in the ecclesiastical court. The letters were written in a rough, uneven style. They were dismissed by Segurola as “confused expressions,” and historians have struggled...

... within and against this painful process. Catholic mission Tanzania colonialism STD decolonization Hubertus Büschel, “Mr. Tanka and Voices: A Cameroonian Patient Writing about Schizophrenia”: In March 1968, Benedict Nta Tanka, a Cameroonian clerk, was diagnosed with schizophrenia. After...

... for many years in the city and worked as a clerk in the ecclesiastical court. The letters were written in a rough, uneven style. They were dismissed by Segurola as “confused expressions,” and historians have struggled with their meanings. Here they have been partially smoothed out for legibility, based...