Ciraj rassool biography of abraham lincoln

Below, we republish an edited extract from Ciraj Rassool’s chapter ‘Human Remains, the Disciplines of the Dead, and the South African Memorial Complex’.

The challenge of rethinking colonial categories was part of the remaking of museums in South Africa as part of the reconstitution of heritage.

Questions began to be posed about the future of the ethnographic museum (or of ethnography in the natural history museum) in a new democracy. Although the record is uneven across national, provincial, and local museums, one of the routes to museum renovation has been the unification and potential integration of previously segregated collections of cultural history and anthropology in a new collections division of social history, like that which occurred at Iziko Museums of Cape Town.

The controversial diorama of a nineteenth-century San Camp made in 1959–60 out of painted body casts, and on display since then, was shut by the South African Museum in 2001, after the mus