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Title:Watchful witness: St George's cathedral and the crypt memory and witness centre
Author:Greenwood, Megan
Year:2013
Periodical:South African Historical Journal (ISSN 0258-2473)
Volume:65
Issue:1
Pages:23-43
Language:English
Geographic term:South Africa
Subjects:Anglican Church
museums
exhibitions
community education
External link:https://www.tandfonline.com/doi/abs/10.1080/02582473.2013.768366
Abstract:This paper examines the exhibition practice of the Crypt Memory and Witness Centre of St George's Anglican Cathedral in a postapartheid, democratic South Africa. Being neither a museum nor a gallery, the Centre's practice is informed by a particular, significant historic relationship between Christianity and exhibiting. The paper examines how the Crypt Centre engages with selective events from South Africa's sociopolitical past through exhibition practice, and to what ends. In particular, it examines the theme of bearing witness that surfaces at multiple levels in the exhibition content and process, considering its relationship with contemporary sociality. Notes, ref., sum. [Journal abstract]
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