South African Museums and the Creation of a New National Identity
Bibliographic Data
| ID | 2463569 |
|---|---|
| Authors | Serena Nanda (City University of New York, corresponding author) |
| Year | 2004 |
| Volume | 106 |
| Issue | 2 |
| Pages | 379-385 |
| Publication date | 2004-06-01 |
| Peer Reviewed | Yes |
| Open Access | Yes |
| Type | ARTICLE |
| Venue | American Anthropologist (JOURNAL) |
| Journal identifiers | ISSN: 0002-7294 • E-ISSN: 1548-1433 |
| Publisher | Wiley (PUBLISHER • GB) |
| DOI | 10.1525/aa.2004.106.2.379 |
| OpenAlex | W1998620280 |
| Language | EN |
| Citations received | 8 |
| References cited | 2 |
Museums are important sites of national cultural production, collective memory making, and the construction of national narratives. Contemporary South Africa is a particularly interesting place to study these processes. With the demise of apartheid, South Africa faces the difficult challenge of creating a new national identity that incorporates an examination of past oppression yet leaves the way open for building a national identity that incorporates all its diverse groups. The museums reviewed below, the Robben Island Prison Museum, the District Six Museum in Capetown, and the Kwa Muhle local history museum in Durban all make important contributions to this process
Aesthetics · Art · Collective memory · Demise · Ethnology · Identity (music · Literature · Media studies · Narrative · National identity · National museum · Oppression · Political science · Sociology · Anthropology · Gender Studies · History · Law · Memory, Trauma, and Commemoration · Museums and Cultural Heritage · South African History and Culture
| Unique citing works | 8 |
|---|---|
| Citations per year | 0,38 |
| Citation span | 2005 - 2025 (21) |
| Citation velocity | recent |
| Highly cited | No |
| Citation types | Neutral: 7 |