Archaeology dreaming: Post-apartheid urban imaginaries and the bones of the Prestwich Street dead

Journal of Social Archaeology

Volumn 7, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 3-28

  Shepherd, Nick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CAPE TOWN   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Heritage management; Human remains; Memory; Post apartheid; Public history

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846201187     PISSN: 14696053     EISSN: 17412951     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1177/1469605307067842     Document Type: Article

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