Positioning the Cape : a spatial engraving of a shifting frontier

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dc.contributor.advisorSkotnes, Pippaen_ZA
dc.contributor.advisorPayne, Malcolmen_ZA
dc.contributor.authorBull, Katherine Gayen_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-05-06T07:16:38Z
dc.date.available2015-05-06T07:16:38Z
dc.date.issued1998en_ZA
dc.descriptionBibliography: leaves. 114-117.en_ZA
dc.description.abstractIn June this year I read an article entitled Eve's footprints safe in museum (Cape Times 24.6.98). The footprints had just been removed from the shore of the Langebaan lagoon. The footprints, imprinted in stone, have been dated to 117 000 years. The media use of the name Eve is an example of how theoretical possibility can become popular fact. The prints became exposed when the stone happened to crack and slide off along the strata that held the prints. Exposed to the elements and to a public who want to have their photograph taken standing where Eve once stood, the soft sandstone which held such a transient impression began to deteriorate rapidly. An article earlier in the year reported on the debate around the future of the prints. The geologist David Roberts, who discovered the prints, wanted them removed as soon as possible while Dr. Janette Deacon from the National Monuments Council was reported to have said, "We should rather see it preserved at the site as moving it would destroy a lot of its meaning. A museum display could never recreate the atmosphere of that scene" (Cape Times 14.1.98).en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationBull, K. G. (1998). <i>Positioning the Cape : a spatial engraving of a shifting frontier</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12744en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationBull, Katherine Gay. <i>"Positioning the Cape : a spatial engraving of a shifting frontier."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 1998. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12744en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationBull, K. 1998. Positioning the Cape : a spatial engraving of a shifting frontier. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Bull, Katherine Gay AB - In June this year I read an article entitled Eve's footprints safe in museum (Cape Times 24.6.98). The footprints had just been removed from the shore of the Langebaan lagoon. The footprints, imprinted in stone, have been dated to 117 000 years. The media use of the name Eve is an example of how theoretical possibility can become popular fact. The prints became exposed when the stone happened to crack and slide off along the strata that held the prints. Exposed to the elements and to a public who want to have their photograph taken standing where Eve once stood, the soft sandstone which held such a transient impression began to deteriorate rapidly. An article earlier in the year reported on the debate around the future of the prints. The geologist David Roberts, who discovered the prints, wanted them removed as soon as possible while Dr. Janette Deacon from the National Monuments Council was reported to have said, "We should rather see it preserved at the site as moving it would destroy a lot of its meaning. A museum display could never recreate the atmosphere of that scene" (Cape Times 14.1.98). DA - 1998 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 1998 T1 - Positioning the Cape : a spatial engraving of a shifting frontier TI - Positioning the Cape : a spatial engraving of a shifting frontier UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12744 ER - en_ZA
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dc.identifier.vancouvercitationBull KG. Positioning the Cape : a spatial engraving of a shifting frontier. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,Michaelis School of Fine Art, 1998 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/12744en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentMichaelis School of Fine Arten_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherFine Arten_ZA
dc.titlePositioning the Cape : a spatial engraving of a shifting frontieren_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMFAen_ZA
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