Apartheid's festival : contesting South Africa's national pasts
by
 
Witz, Leslie.

Title
Apartheid's festival : contesting South Africa's national pasts

Author
Witz, Leslie.

ISBN
9780253342713
 
9780253216137
 
9780864866370

Personal Author
Witz, Leslie.

Publication Information
Bloomington : Indiana University Press, c2003.

Physical Description
xii, 324 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cm.

Series
African systems of thought.

Series Title
African systems of thought.

Contents
Introduction : journeys, festivals, and the making of national pasts -- Van Riebeeck's pasts -- "We build a nation" : the festival of unity and exclusion -- Contesting van Riebeeck's nation -- "N fees vir die oog" [a festival/feast for the eye] : looking in on the 1952 Jan van Riebeeck Tercentenary Festival Fair -- Local and national pasts : the journeys of the mail coach "settlers" through the Eastern Cape -- Conclusion : post van Riebeeck.

Subject Term
Festivals -- South Africa -- History -- 20th century.
 
Public history -- South Africa.
 
Apartheid -- South Africa.

Geographic Term
Cape Town (South Africa) -- Anniversaries, etc.
 
South Africa -- Cultural policy.


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IIEMSAGeneral Books33168015760321968.73 W883A 20031