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dc.contributor.supervisorFowler, Kent
dc.contributor.authorJordaan, Jacqueline
dc.date.accessioned2022-08-29T16:58:05Z
dc.date.available2022-08-29T16:58:05Z
dc.date.copyright2022-08-25
dc.date.issued2022-08-25
dc.date.submitted2022-08-25T18:42:28Zen_US
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/1993/36796
dc.description.abstractMuseums are sites of representation and contestation; especially in South Africa, where the representation of African peoples’ pasts are often found in Eurocentric oriented museums. Museums, as retainers of material culture could present alternative understandings of African peoples’ pasts, one not subject to a Eurocentric valorisation of the written word as the blueprint of development and complexity. To this point, the practice of archaeology and its potential contribution to public understandings of African peoples’ pasts become critical to African centring. Framed within a larger discussion of coloniality, I use qualitative methods to assess museum display themes across KwaZulu-Natal, colonial and apartheid narratives and reframing opportunities at the KwaZulu-Natal Museum, and the museum as a teaching resource. In this dissertation, I discuss de-linking strategies, such as the use of orality and museum educator orientation, which hold potential to create a humanism that expands African peoples’ contributions to the stories of humanity.en_US
dc.language.isoengen_US
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.subjectMuseumen_US
dc.subjectSouth Africaen_US
dc.subjectRepresentation issuesen_US
dc.subjectColonialityen_US
dc.subjectArchaeologyen_US
dc.titleAfrican centring: A de-colonizing approach to museum representations of African peoples’ pasts in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africaen_US
dc.typeinfo:eu-repo/semantics/doctoralThesis
dc.typedoctoral thesisen_US
dc.degree.disciplineAnthropologyen_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeBuddle, Kathleen (Anthropology)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeChadya, Joy (History)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeCollins, Benjamin (Anthropology)en_US
dc.contributor.examiningcommitteeMazel, Aron (Heriatge Studies, Newcastle University)en_US
dc.degree.levelDoctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.)en_US
dc.description.noteOctober 2022en_US
local.subject.manitobanoen_US


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