In the halls of history: the making and unmaking of the life-casts at the ethnography galleries of the Iziko South African Museum

This mini-dissertation is a study of the phenomenon of life-casting and the display of these in the museum space. It looks specifically at the practice as it came into use at the turn of the twentieth century at the South African Museum in the Western Cape. The research aims to place the practice in...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Cedras, Robyn-Leigh
Other Authors: Shepherd, Nick
Format: Dissertation
Language:English
Published: University of Cape Town 2017
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/22756