What we see
Subtitle: reconsidering an anthropometrical collection from Southern Africa : images, voices and versioning
By: edited by Anette Hoffmann
Publisher: Basler Afrika Bibliographien
Published: 2009
Place of publication: Basel, Switzerland
Language: eng
Number of pages: 233
ISBN-13: 9783905758108
Copyright date: 2009
Subjects: Exhibitions; Ethnological museums and collections; Anthropometry; Kolonialismus; Ausstellung; Rassismus; Anthropometrie; Menschenrasse; Völkerkundliche Schaustellung; Stereotypisierung
Notes: This book accompanies the exhibition  'What we see', engages with the anthropometrical archive and its canned voices theoretically, visually and artistically. Its essays reconsider anthropometric collections and their representational claims through bones, skeletons, casts, masks, and photography. They reflect on voices and voice archives and, importantly provide transcriptions of many of the recorded texts. The exhibition was shown at the Slave Lodge, IZIKO Museums, Cape Town (South Africa) in 2009.

Includes bibliographical references (p. 226-233)