'If it's not black gold, then it's bone gold' : contested knowledges of the Prestwich Street dead

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dc.contributor.advisorShepherd, Nicken_ZA
dc.contributor.authorRalphs, Gerarden_ZA
dc.date.accessioned2015-01-01T12:19:56Z
dc.date.available2015-01-01T12:19:56Z
dc.date.issued2008en_ZA
dc.descriptionIncludes bibliographical references (leaves 114-130).en_ZA
dc.description.abstractThe aim of this mini-dissertation is to map out the nature of these contested knowledges of the Prestwich Street dead, and to describe and analyse the struggles of dominance and resistance these different ways of knowing gave rise to. My argument throughout is that out of the clashing of these knowledges emerged a frontier - a discursive space of conflict and turbulence that came into being with the surfacing of the dead, and dissipated with an official decision to prevent basic anatomical research on their skeletal remains. If this discursive battle and this frontier opened up the post-apartheid public sphere to new and emergent (South) African identities, then it also closed down the public sphere with the further entrenchment of particular disciplinary identities and formations, namely archaeology, physical anthropology, development, and heritage resources management.en_ZA
dc.identifier.apacitationRalphs, G. (2008). <i>'If it's not black gold, then it's bone gold' : contested knowledges of the Prestwich Street dead</i>. (Thesis). University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Studies. Retrieved from http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10812en_ZA
dc.identifier.chicagocitationRalphs, Gerard. <i>"'If it's not black gold, then it's bone gold' : contested knowledges of the Prestwich Street dead."</i> Thesis., University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Studies, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10812en_ZA
dc.identifier.citationRalphs, G. 2008. 'If it's not black gold, then it's bone gold' : contested knowledges of the Prestwich Street dead. University of Cape Town.en_ZA
dc.identifier.ris TY - Thesis / Dissertation AU - Ralphs, Gerard AB - The aim of this mini-dissertation is to map out the nature of these contested knowledges of the Prestwich Street dead, and to describe and analyse the struggles of dominance and resistance these different ways of knowing gave rise to. My argument throughout is that out of the clashing of these knowledges emerged a frontier - a discursive space of conflict and turbulence that came into being with the surfacing of the dead, and dissipated with an official decision to prevent basic anatomical research on their skeletal remains. If this discursive battle and this frontier opened up the post-apartheid public sphere to new and emergent (South) African identities, then it also closed down the public sphere with the further entrenchment of particular disciplinary identities and formations, namely archaeology, physical anthropology, development, and heritage resources management. DA - 2008 DB - OpenUCT DP - University of Cape Town LK - https://open.uct.ac.za PB - University of Cape Town PY - 2008 T1 - 'If it's not black gold, then it's bone gold' : contested knowledges of the Prestwich Street dead TI - 'If it's not black gold, then it's bone gold' : contested knowledges of the Prestwich Street dead UR - http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10812 ER - en_ZA
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/11427/10812
dc.identifier.vancouvercitationRalphs G. 'If it's not black gold, then it's bone gold' : contested knowledges of the Prestwich Street dead. [Thesis]. University of Cape Town ,Faculty of Humanities ,African Studies, 2008 [cited yyyy month dd]. Available from: http://hdl.handle.net/11427/10812en_ZA
dc.language.isoengen_ZA
dc.publisher.departmentAfrican Studiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.facultyFaculty of Humanitiesen_ZA
dc.publisher.institutionUniversity of Cape Town
dc.subject.otherAfrican Studiesen_ZA
dc.title'If it's not black gold, then it's bone gold' : contested knowledges of the Prestwich Street deaden_ZA
dc.typeMaster Thesis
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dc.type.qualificationnameMPhilen_ZA
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