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Showing 1 to 19 of 19 for “"African Museum"”.
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Material culture, context and meaning : a critical investigation of museum practice, with particular reference to the South African Museum
… This problem is addressed with reference to museum practice, focusing in particular on the social role of artefacts in two contextual domains - that of everyday life, as interpreted in ethnographic fieldwork, and that of a museum, which is in itself a complex cultural artefact. These two …
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In the halls of history: the making and unmaking of the life-casts at the ethnography galleries of the Iziko South African Museum
… of life-casting and the display of these in the museum space. It looks specifically at the practice as it came into use at the turn of the twentieth century at the South African Museum in the Western Cape. The research aims to place the practice in context with the historical triggers and larger …
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Taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of South African actiniaria and corallimorpharia
… data were gathered from the Iziko South African Museum (SAM) records, as well as from the uncatalogued wet collection, and from previously published literature. Photographic records submitted by SCUBA divers, and specimens collected during the course of this study provided more recent …
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A constrastive case study of orthodox and alternate adult literacy initiatives, as regards their assumptions about literacy, pedagogy, and curriculum
… endeavour situated within the walls of the South African Museum. My concern was to examine how different constructs of what literacy is and how it should be taught manifested themselves in curricula, pedagogy, and organisation at the two sites. I used ethnographic-style methods to gather data at …
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Systematics and biodiversity of South African sea urchins
The South African Echinoidea (Echinodermata) were last reviewed by Clark & Courtman Stock (1976) and numerous unidentified specimens and records have accumulated since that time, plus there have been many taxonomic changes within the group. Therefore this study, which forms the first of its kind in …
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Museums and labelling : differences, discursive influences and professional identities
… literacy practices involved in the production og museum labels. Three displays at the South African Museum, Go Bats!, Mineral Mania and Fossil Stories, were selected for close study because they presented key examples of the differences the researcher wanted to study. These differences appeared to …
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Taxonomy, systematics and biogeography of South African Cirripedia (Thoracica)
The South African Cirripedia (Thoracica) are reviewed for the first time in 88 years, since that of Barnard (1924). Data collection consisted of records from the South African Museum, previously published literature, and specimens collected in the field. The current state of knowledge of the taxon …
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Review of the South African and Mozambican stomatopod fauna
… to collate literature records, examine existing museum specimens, update species accounts and distribution records, and report on new species records from both South Africa and Mozambique. This study is primary based on the stomatopod collection housed at the Iziko South African Museum, Cape …
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Southern African Cumacea: Volume-1
… studied in detail and papers on the southern African representatives of the first three families have been published in the Annals of the South African Museum. In. the five families studied, seventy-five species are known in southern Afric~n waters and forty-five of these are here presented as …
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The African art collection in the Iziko South African National Gallery: past, present and possible futures
The Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG) in Cape Town, which is South Africa's oldest 1 state art museum, began growing an African art collection (called the Permanent African Art Collection) in 1967. The collection today is cared for and owned by the Iziko Museums of South Africa Art …
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Cretaceous bryozoan fossils from Needs Camp, South Africa
… invertebrate collections of the Iziko South African Museum, Cape Town. The approach will be a combination of traditional morphological methods and cutting-edge scanning electron microscopy (SEM) technology. Limestones were dissolved by water, the fragments and fossils extracted from the stone …
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The African art collection in the Iziko South African National Gallery: past, present and possible futures
The Iziko South African National Gallery (ISANG) in Cape Town, which is South Africa's oldest 1 state art museum, began growing an African art collection (called the Permanent African Art Collection) in 1967. The collection today is cared for and owned by the Iziko Museums of South Africa Art …
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The chiton fauna (Mollusca: Polyplacophora) of South Africa
… all the known chiton species inhabiting South African waters and adds new records of species that were previously undocumented. The study identifies an additional eight species new to the region from South African museum collections. A remarkable endemism is found in this group, with 46% of …
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Recontextualisation in museum displays: refracting discourses over time
… investigates the representation of people in museums, focusing on the San, South Africa’s first nation. Using a multimodal social semiotic framework, it analyses three exhibitions of the San that were mounted over a period of a hundred years in a natural history museum from 1911 to the …
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The Gammaridean and Caprellid Amphipoda of Southern Africa
… those of the University of Cape Town, the South African Museum and the National Institute for Water Research. These collections are together much larger than any previously reported from southern Africa (in excess of 90 000 specimens from several thousand stations). Findings are presented in a …
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A taxonomic revision of the squat lobsters (Anomura: Chirostyloidea and Galatheoidea) of South Africa
South African squat lobsters (Chirostyloidea and Galatheoidea) are a severely understudied group. They have never been the subject of a formal monographic study and the last additions to the fauna were made almost 20 years ago. Thus, a revision of these superfamilies is long overdue. This study …
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Adapting the model for information literacy and cultural heritage in Cape Town: investigating user attitudes and preceptions in libraries, museums and archives
… user attitudes and perceptions in libraries, museums and archives, by Kim Baker, investigates the attitudes and perceptions of general public adult users of the City of Cape Town public libraries, Iziko Museums of South Africa, and the Western Cape Archives and Records Service in Cape Town …
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The Door of Return Museum of Senegal
Door of Return Museum symbolizes a synthesis of environmental building systems (EBS) and extends Senegal's cultural fingerprint along the Atlantic shoreline. Benefits of EBS technologies include ecologic imperatives, coexistence with nature, and transcultural synergies to name a few. …
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Sartorial disruption: an investigation of the histories, dispositions, and related museum practices of the dress/fashion collections at Iziko Museums as a means to re-imagine and re-frame the sartorial in the museum
… sartorial objects of three formerly separate museums – the South African Museum, the South African National Gallery and the South African Cultural History Museum. Although these three museums were amalgamated in 1999, along with eight other Western Cape institutions to form Iziko Museums, each …