Barbara Buntman
Biographic Data
| ID | 212959 |
|---|---|
| NAME | Barbara Buntman |
| GIVEN NAMES | Barbara |
| FAMILY NAME | Buntman |
| SIGNATURE | BUNTMAN B |
| AFFILIATIONS | University of the Witwatersrand |
| VERIFIED | No |
| TOTAL WORKS | 6 |
| TOTAL CITATIONS | 14 |
| AUTHOR COUNT | 6 |
| EDITOR COUNT | 0 |
| FIRST PUBLICATION YEAR | 1996 |
| LATEST PUBLICATION YEAR | 2013 |
| H-INDEX | 3 |
Memorialising David Webster
On 1 May 1989, anthropologist and human-rights activist David Webster was gunned down outside his home in Troyeville, Johannesburg. Since his untimely death, Webster has been publicly remembered in numerous ways. This paper looks at some of these memorials, in particular a boundary wall erected at the site of his assassination and a portrait made in a Troyeville park, which was named after him. In the process, it focuses on the ways in which cert…
Old Synagogue’ and Apartheid Court
Now an emerging heritage site, Pretoria's ‘Old Synagogue’ originated as a Jewish house of worship before becoming a notorious apartheid court. This article considers the appellation ‘Old Synagogue’, how traces of the past inform memory and history, the Jewish origins of the Old Synagogue, the transition from synagogue to its use as an apartheid court, its bureaucratic decline and subsequent abandonment, and the substance and implications of numer…
Tourism and Tragedy
In 1942, within in a period of 10 months, 500,000 people were systematically murdered in a specially built death camp at Belzec, Poland. When it had served its purpose the Nazis demolished it, and to hide its existence, grassed the site over, allowing the atrocities performed there to remain virtually hidden from public view for over 60 years. In 2004 an important new Holocaust memorial, covering the whole death camp area, was opened. Visually st…
Clothing and Identity
Bushman(ia) and Photographic Intervention
Selling with the san
This paper examines the use of visual images of the Bushman peoples (San) and their cultural objects in contemporary South African advertising. As an image is a site of meaning, the relationship between the people represented in the advertisement and the culture for which the advertisement is produced demonstrates strategies of subjection and power. Within the context of the advertisement, I explore the extent to which San people are appropriated…
Tourism and Tragedy
In 1942, within in a period of 10 months, 500,000 people were systematically murdered in a specially built death camp at Belzec, Poland. When it had served its purpose the Nazis demolished it, and to hide its existence, grassed the site over, allowing the atrocities performed there to remain virtually hidden from public view for over 60 years. In 2004 an important new Holocaust memorial, covering the whole death camp area, was opened. Visually st…
Bushman(ia) and Photographic Intervention
Selling with the san
This paper examines the use of visual images of the Bushman peoples (San) and their cultural objects in contemporary South African advertising. As an image is a site of meaning, the relationship between the people represented in the advertisement and the culture for which the advertisement is produced demonstrates strategies of subjection and power. Within the context of the advertisement, I explore the extent to which San people are appropriated…
Old Synagogue’ and Apartheid Court
Now an emerging heritage site, Pretoria's ‘Old Synagogue’ originated as a Jewish house of worship before becoming a notorious apartheid court. This article considers the appellation ‘Old Synagogue’, how traces of the past inform memory and history, the Jewish origins of the Old Synagogue, the transition from synagogue to its use as an apartheid court, its bureaucratic decline and subsequent abandonment, and the substance and implications of numer…
Selling with the san
This paper examines the use of visual images of the Bushman peoples (San) and their cultural objects in contemporary South African advertising. As an image is a site of meaning, the relationship between the people represented in the advertisement and the culture for which the advertisement is produced demonstrates strategies of subjection and power. Within the context of the advertisement, I explore the extent to which San people are appropriated…
Bushman(ia) and Photographic Intervention
Clothing and Identity
Tourism and Tragedy
In 1942, within in a period of 10 months, 500,000 people were systematically murdered in a specially built death camp at Belzec, Poland. When it had served its purpose the Nazis demolished it, and to hide its existence, grassed the site over, allowing the atrocities performed there to remain virtually hidden from public view for over 60 years. In 2004 an important new Holocaust memorial, covering the whole death camp area, was opened. Visually st…
Old Synagogue’ and Apartheid Court
Now an emerging heritage site, Pretoria's ‘Old Synagogue’ originated as a Jewish house of worship before becoming a notorious apartheid court. This article considers the appellation ‘Old Synagogue’, how traces of the past inform memory and history, the Jewish origins of the Old Synagogue, the transition from synagogue to its use as an apartheid court, its bureaucratic decline and subsequent abandonment, and the substance and implications of numer…
Memorialising David Webster
On 1 May 1989, anthropologist and human-rights activist David Webster was gunned down outside his home in Troyeville, Johannesburg. Since his untimely death, Webster has been publicly remembered in numerous ways. This paper looks at some of these memorials, in particular a boundary wall erected at the site of his assassination and a portrait made in a Troyeville park, which was named after him. In the process, it focuses on the ways in which cert…
Art (4 works) · History (4 works) · Sociology (4 works) · Aesthetics (3 works) · Archaeology (3 works) · History (3 works) · Law (3 works) · Political science (3 works) · South African History and Culture (3 works) · Archaeology and Rock Art Studies (2 works)