Browsing Department of History by Author "Hayes, Patricia"
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A visual struggle for Mozambique. Revisiting narratives, interpreting photographs (1850-1930)
Assubuji, Rui (University of the Western Cape, 2020)‘A Visual Struggle for Mozambique. Revisiting narratives, interpreting photographs (1850 – 1930)’ is a study that requires an engagement with the historiography of the Portuguese empire, with reference to Mozambique. ... -
Visual technologies and the shaping of public memory of disappeared persons in Cape Town (1960-1990)
Rahman, Ziyaad (University of the Western Cape, 2021)The starting point of this thesis is the work of the Truth and Reconciliation Commission (TRC) and the Missing Person’s Task Team (MPTT), two instruments of the post-apartheid government, both of which have directly ... -
Visualizing the body: Photographic clues and the cultural fluidity of Mbopo institution, 1914-2014
Udo, Nsima Stanislaus (University of the Western Cape, 2018)The mbopo institution, popularly known as the “fattening room” is a cultural rite of passage for young virgins, who are being prepared for marriage among the Ibibio/Efik people of southern Nigeria. It is a complex cultural ... -
Voortrekker Road palimpsest: A study in social, spatial and temporal flux in the city
Ferguson, Sophia Margaretha (University of the Western Cape, 2020)With its Afrikaner Nationalist past and its current status as an Afropolitan hub, Voortrekker Road simultaneously constitutes a place of separation and transgression, resulting in a quotidian tableau of urban life that ...