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Southern African human remains as property: Physical anthropology and the production of racial capital in Austria
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
From 1907 to 1909, the Austrian anthropologist, Dr Rudolf Pöch (1870-1921), conducted an
expedition in southern Africa that was financed by the Imperial Academy of Sciences in
Vienna. Pöch enjoyed administrative and ...
Visual Storytelling in the Cape Flats Gang Biopics Noem My Skollie (2016) and Ellen: Die Storie van Ellen Pakkies (2018)
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
This M.A. mini-thesis seeks to open up the post-apartheid South African biopic as a topic for serious historical scrutiny. While book-length written biographies published in the post-apartheid (and apartheid periods) are ...
The hand and the head: the handspring puppet company and the arts archive
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
My Doctoral dissertation, titled The hand and the head: The Handspring Puppet Company and the arts archive, is focussed on the hand as it appears variously in the production, performance and reception of puppetry as a ...
Re-humanisation, history and a forensic aesthetic: Understanding a politics of the dead in the figuring of Ntombikayise Priscilla Kubheka
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
In 1987 Ntombikayise Priscilla Kubheka was abducted, tortured, killed and her body dumped by apartheid security police. She was an uMkhonto WeSizwe (MK), the armed wing of the African National Congress (ANC), commander ...
Anthropology and literature: Humanistic themes in the ethnographic fiction of Hilda Kuper and Edith Turner
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
This mini-thesis makes an argument for the significance of a female-dominated hidden tradition of experimental ethnographic writing in British social anthropology. It argues that the women anthropologists who experimented ...
Visual Storytelling in the Cape Flats Gang Biopics Noem My Skollie (2016) and Ellen: Die Storie van Ellen Pakkies (2018)
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
This M.A. mini-thesis seeks to open up the post-apartheid South African biopic as a topic for serious historical scrutiny. While book-length written biographies published in the post-apartheid (and apartheid periods) are ...
Listening and reading: Leon Levson’s ‘native studies’ photographs in the anti-apartheid Mayibuye archives
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
The thesis focuses on Leon Levson’s ‘native study’ photographs, taken in the 1940s in the rural areas of Transkei and Bechuanaland. These photographs are housed at the UWC-Robben Island Museum-Mayibuye Archives as part of ...
The African child and the hidden curriculum at Blythswood Institute: Three snapshots
(University of Western Cape, 2021)
This mini-thesis seeks to understand how the colonial and apartheid state imagined the African child in South Africa through education policies and their associated hidden curriculum. It asks what educational project was ...
Visual technologies and the shaping of public memory of disappeared persons in Cape Town (1960-1990)
(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 ...
The un/timely death(s) of Chris Hani: discipline, spectrality, and the haunting possibility of return
(University of the Western Cape, 2021)
This dissertation takes Chris Hani beyond the conventionally biographic by thinking through his multiple lives and deaths and engaging with his legacy in ways that cannot be contained by singular, linear narratives. By ...