Cape Town Reading

Shepherd, N. 2007 ‘Archaeology dreaming: post-apartheid urban imaginaries and the bones of the Prestwich Street dead’ 7, 3, 3-28

Shepherd, N and S. Robins (eds.) (2008) New South African Keywords (Jacana Media and Ohio University Press).

The introduction gives useful background. Individual chapters provide an orientation to postapartheid South Africa. Chapter on “Heritage” begins p.116.

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Shepherd, N (forthcoming) Archaeology in the Postcolony: Disciplinary entrapments, subaltern epistemologies. In:  Paul Graves-Brown, Rodney Harrison and Angela Piccini (eds) The Oxford Handbook of the Archaeology of the Contemporary World (OUP).