Patricia Davison
Biographic Data
| ID | 148455 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Patricia Davison |
| GIVEN NAMES | Patricia |
| FAMILY NAME | Davison |
| SIGNATURE | DAVISON P |
| AFFILIATIONS | Iziko Museums of South Africa |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 15 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 45 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 15 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1981 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2001 |
| H-INDEX | 4 |
Typecast: Representations of the Bushmen at the South African Museum
From the early decades of the 20th century, plaster casts of Khoisan people have been on exhibition at the South African Museum. The most popular visitor attraction, they have also become the most controversial and hotly debated exhibits. Initially made as part of an anthropological project to document the physical characteristics of a race believed to be near extinction, the casts outlived their scientific moment to become compelling exhibits in…
Typecast: Representations of the Bushmen at the South African Museum
From the early decades of the 20th century, plaster casts of Khoisan people have been on exhibition at the South African Museum. The most popular visitor attraction, they have also become the most controversial and hotly debated exhibits. Initially made as part of an anthropological project to document the physical characteristics of a race believed to be near extinction, the casts outlived their scientific moment to become compelling exhibits in…
Picturing Bushmen: The Denver African Expedition of 1925
Picturing Bushmen: The Denver African Expedition of 1925. Robert J. Gordon. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997. xiii. 208 pp., figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index
Transcending prison as a metaphor of apartheid
We examine film representations of prisons, with specific reference to the meaning of Robben Island in South African history. Topologically and symbolically, the Island represented the outer margin to which African resistance was banished. In liberation discourse, however, the Island was articulated into a symbol of defiance, a government-in-waiting, a temporarily inhabited territory. The central esthetic for black South African writing is the “t…
Museum practice, material culture and the politics of identity
Different visions. A comparison of the central African collections of W. F. Burton and Irma stern
In this paper the ideas that informed the collections of central African artefacts assembled by the English missionary, William Burton, and the South African artist, Irma Stern, are compared and discussed. The focus is not on specific pieces but on collecting practice and the attitudes of the collectors. Although Burton and Stern had differing personal visions, it is suggested that both were variants of a stereotype of Africa that was rooted in e…
Art as Artefact: Another Way of Seeing
Rethinking the practice of ethnography and cultural history in South African museums
1990). Rethinking the practice of ethnography and cultural history in South African museums. African Studies: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 149-167
The Social Use of Domestic Space in a Mpondo Homestead
Madagascar: Island of the Ancestors
The Clay Sleeps: An Ethno-Archaeological Study of Three African Potters
Southern African Beer Pots
Ethnology, an Introduction to the Peoples and Cultures of Southern Africa
Wireworks: Toys from Southern Africa
The Lydenburg Heads
The Clay Sleeps: An Ethno-Archaeological Study of Three African Potters
Madagascar: Island of the Ancestors
Typecast: Representations of the Bushmen at the South African Museum
From the early decades of the 20th century, plaster casts of Khoisan people have been on exhibition at the South African Museum. The most popular visitor attraction, they have also become the most controversial and hotly debated exhibits. Initially made as part of an anthropological project to document the physical characteristics of a race believed to be near extinction, the casts outlived their scientific moment to become compelling exhibits in…
The Lydenburg Heads
Rethinking the practice of ethnography and cultural history in South African museums
1990). Rethinking the practice of ethnography and cultural history in South African museums. African Studies: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 149-167
The Social Use of Domestic Space in a Mpondo Homestead
Museum practice, material culture and the politics of identity
Transcending prison as a metaphor of apartheid
We examine film representations of prisons, with specific reference to the meaning of Robben Island in South African history. Topologically and symbolically, the Island represented the outer margin to which African resistance was banished. In liberation discourse, however, the Island was articulated into a symbol of defiance, a government-in-waiting, a temporarily inhabited territory. The central esthetic for black South African writing is the “t…
Art as Artefact: Another Way of Seeing
The Lydenburg Heads
Ethnology, an Introduction to the Peoples and Cultures of Southern Africa
Wireworks: Toys from Southern Africa
Southern African Beer Pots
The Clay Sleeps: An Ethno-Archaeological Study of Three African Potters
Madagascar: Island of the Ancestors
The Social Use of Domestic Space in a Mpondo Homestead
Art as Artefact: Another Way of Seeing
Rethinking the practice of ethnography and cultural history in South African museums
1990). Rethinking the practice of ethnography and cultural history in South African museums. African Studies: Vol. 49, No. 1, pp. 149-167
Different visions. A comparison of the central African collections of W. F. Burton and Irma stern
In this paper the ideas that informed the collections of central African artefacts assembled by the English missionary, William Burton, and the South African artist, Irma Stern, are compared and discussed. The focus is not on specific pieces but on collecting practice and the attitudes of the collectors. Although Burton and Stern had differing personal visions, it is suggested that both were variants of a stereotype of Africa that was rooted in e…
Transcending prison as a metaphor of apartheid
We examine film representations of prisons, with specific reference to the meaning of Robben Island in South African history. Topologically and symbolically, the Island represented the outer margin to which African resistance was banished. In liberation discourse, however, the Island was articulated into a symbol of defiance, a government-in-waiting, a temporarily inhabited territory. The central esthetic for black South African writing is the “t…
Museum practice, material culture and the politics of identity
Picturing Bushmen: The Denver African Expedition of 1925
Picturing Bushmen: The Denver African Expedition of 1925. Robert J. Gordon. Athens: Ohio University Press, 1997. xiii. 208 pp., figures, maps, notes, bibliography, index
Typecast: Representations of the Bushmen at the South African Museum
From the early decades of the 20th century, plaster casts of Khoisan people have been on exhibition at the South African Museum. The most popular visitor attraction, they have also become the most controversial and hotly debated exhibits. Initially made as part of an anthropological project to document the physical characteristics of a race believed to be near extinction, the casts outlived their scientific moment to become compelling exhibits in…
Typecast: Representations of the Bushmen at the South African Museum
From the early decades of the 20th century, plaster casts of Khoisan people have been on exhibition at the South African Museum. The most popular visitor attraction, they have also become the most controversial and hotly debated exhibits. Initially made as part of an anthropological project to document the physical characteristics of a race believed to be near extinction, the casts outlived their scientific moment to become compelling exhibits in…
Art (8 works) · Sociology (8 works) · Geography (7 works) · History (7 works) · Archaeology (6 works) · Aesthetics (5 works) · Anthropology (5 works) · History (5 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (4 works) · Global Maritime and Colonial Histories (4 works)