Hostels, Homes, Museum: Memorialising Migrant Labour Pasts in Lwandle, South Africa
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Winner of: 2014 Michael M. Ames Award in Innovative Museum Anthropology This book tracks moments in the making and remaking of a museum in Lwandle, some 40 kilometers from Cape Town. In 1998 this space of seeming anonymity, which was established in the 1950s under apartheid as a "native location" for the purposes of housing temporary migrant labor, surprisingly became the site for the first township museum in the Western Cape province. The authors explore the making of this museum, the creation of community histories through the oral and the visual, and a major project to rehabilitate a migrant labor hostel. It is a story of Lwandle and a museum, which is fixed and temporary, planned and providential, seen and unseen, settled and unsettled.
Format:Paperback
Language:English
ISBN:1775820777
ISBN13:9781775820772
Release Date:October 2014
Publisher:University of Cape Town Press
Length:208 Pages
Weight:0.65 lbs.
Dimensions:0.4" x 5.9" x 8.9"
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