Miscast (Lane reflects) · The Medicine Chest

Title

Miscast (Lane reflects)

Is Part Of

African Studies See all items with this value

Anthropology See all items with this value

Centre for Curating the Archive See all items with this value

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Description

"Where viewers had to walk over a floor of vinyl tiles printed with photocopied newspaper articles and photographs of the San, Lane reflected on another archaeological parallel: ‘just as the texts and images on the floor represent the debris of a particular history, so too do the artefacts strewn across the surface of a site’ (Lane 1996: 7). Yet in trying to define sites and their history, archaeologists feel ‘they can tread on the debris of their own or others’ ancestors with equanimity, colonizing that space for themselves’ (Lane 1996: 7)" (Liebenberg 2021: 172 - 174).

Access Rights

Centre for Curating the Archive

url

http://www.cca.uct.ac.za/cca/projects/miscast-archive

Creator

Pippa Skotnes See all items with this value

Date Created

1994

Source

*Miscast Archive (Centre for Curating the Archive)

*Lane, P. 1996. Breaking the Mould?: Exhibiting Khoisan in Southern African Museums. Anthropology Today, 12(5), 3–10.

* Liebenberg, N. 2021. The virus and the vaccine: curatorship and the disciplinary outsider. University of Cape Town. Doctoral dissertation.

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Type

Photo

Exhibition

Item sets

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