Beating around the Bush(man!): Reflections on “Miscast: Negotiating Khoisan history and material culture”

Abstract

This article critically examines the politics of representing “the native” in relation to issues of cultural property, accountability, artistic licence and access. The discussion is focused on a recent exhibition which opened at the South African National Gallery (SANG) in Cape Town on April 13, 1996, entitled “Miscast: Negotiating Khoisan History and Material Culture”. The exhibition, which aimed to explore critically the categorisation and (mis)representation of Bushman peoples, has initiated much discussion and controversy in South Africa between and within indigenous groups, academic circles, the media and the public sphere. The authors examine the motivations, reception and implications of such an exhibition at this critical point in the development of South Africa's new democracy.

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