This paper examines the early twentieth century story of Lucas, the so-called "baboon boy" of the Eastern Cape, in order to unpack some of the mechanisms (social, ideological, racial and physical) that underlie the shaping of the idea of the human in a local context. By exhuming the material details in Lucas's story, I aim to establish a form of relation between pa...

This paper examines the early twentieth century story of Lucas, the so-called "baboon boy" of the Eastern Cape, in order to unpack some of the mechanisms (social, ideological, racial and physical) that underlie the shaping of the idea of the human in a local context. By exhuming the material details in Lucas's story, I aim to establish a form of relation between pa...