| Description |
1 online resource (270 pages) : illustrations |
| Series |
Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage |
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Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.
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| Contents |
Reconsidering heritage and memory / Mike Rowlands and Ferdinand de Jong -- 'Taking on a tradition' : African heritage and the testimony of memory / Beverley Butler -- Slave route projects : tracing the heritage of slavery in Ghana / Katharina Schramm -- Picturing the past : heritage, photography, and the politics of appearance in a Yoruba City / Peter Probst -- Entangled memories and parallel heritages in Mali / Michael Rowlands -- 'Enchanting town of Mud' : Djenné, a world heritage site in Mali / Charlotte Joy -- A masterpiece of masquerading : contradictions of conservation in intangible heritage / Ferdinand de Jong -- From a glorious past to the lands of origin : media consumption and changing narratives of cultural belonging in Mali / Dorothea Schulz -- Demystified memories : the politics of heritage in post-socialist Guinea / Ramon Sarró -- Palimpsest memoryscapes : materializing and mediating war and peace in Sierra Leone / Paul Basu |
| Summary |
In a fascinating series of cases from West Africa, anthropologists, archaeologists and art historians show how memory, heritage, identity and conservation play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts at the local, ethnic, national and global level |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Master and use copy. Digital master created according to Benchmark for Faithful Digital Reproductions of Monographs and Serials, Version 1. Digital Library Federation, December 2002. http://purl.oclc.org/DLF/benchrepro0212 MiAaHDL |
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English |
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Print version record |
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digitized 2010 HathiTrust Digital Library committed to preserve pda MiAaHDL |
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Cultural property -- Africa, West
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Cultural property -- Protection -- Africa, West
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Memory -- Social aspects -- Africa, West
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HISTORY -- Africa -- West.
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Antiquities
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Cultural property
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Cultural property -- Protection
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Memory -- Social aspects
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| SUBJECT |
Africa, West -- History. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85001703
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Africa, West -- Antiquities
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| Subject |
West Africa
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
De Jong, Ferdinand
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Rowlands, M. J
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| LC no. |
2007034207 |
| ISBN |
9781598747621 |
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1598747622 |
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1598743082 |
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9781598743081 |
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1315421135 |
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9781315421131 |
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1315421127 |
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9781315421124 |
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