Recontextualisation in museum displays: refracting discourses over time

This research 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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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rall, Medee
Other Authors: Archer, Arlene
Format: Doctoral Thesis
Language:English
Published: Faculty of Humanities 2019
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/11427/30167