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