Miscast: the place of the museum in negotiating the Bushman past and present.

From: Critical Arts | Date: January 1, 1999| Author: Jackson, Shannon; Robins, Steven | Copyright information

THERE ARE TWO museums in South Africa competing for representation and commentary on `who are the Bushmen?'. The South African Museum and the South African National Gallery, situated across from each other in Cape Town's Company Gardens, combine efforts to concretise a debate regarding how the indigenous categories, `Bushman' and `Khoisan' (1), can be publicly represented. The two museums draw together different and changing historical relationships to these categories as well as t...

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