Title The Nature of Heritage : the New South Africa

Published Chichester : Wiley, 2011

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Description 1 online resource (554 pages) Contents Cover; Title page; Copyright page; Dedication; Acknowledgments; Abbreviations; Culture and Nature in Kruger; Outline of the Book; Introduction; Chapter 1 Naturalizing Cultural Heritage; Enclosures and Fortresses; Beauty and Duty; Diversity, Sustainability and Future Generations; Future Thinking; Chapter 2 Making Heritage Pay in the Rainbow Nation; The Tribal Trap; Developing Heritage; Neoliberal Heritage; Rainbow Materialities; Making Heritage Pay in Kruger; Skukuza Stories; The Past of the Park; Colonial Incursions; Trekpas and Trespass; Military and Juridical Histories A Post-Apartheid Park: Your Heritage, Your Park, Your WorldChapter 3 It's Mine, It's Yours; Chapter 4 Why Biodiversity Trumps Culture; States and Parastatals; The Nature of Biodiversity and Bad Citizens; Dreams of Terra Nullius; Skukuza: Nation without History; Chapter 5 Archaeologies of Failure; Misadventures at Masorini; Putting Archaeology in its Place; Ecologies of Heritage; An Alternative Vision of Cultural and Natural Heritage; Past Mastering in the Park; The Money; White Mischief; White Crosses; The Locals; Deep Disregard; Revealing Archaeology in a New Nation; Treasure in the Veld Chapter 6 ThulamelaWell Deserved; Developing Black People; This is Not a Development Agency; Masterplanning Kruger; Doing Well by Doing Good; Kruger eKhayelitsha; Gold Rocks, Public Goods, and Private Gains at the Rainbow's End; Chapter 7 Kruger is a Gold Rock; "State in Search of a Nation"; Public and Private Goods; Modern Nature and Premodern Cultures; Nature and Culture; Conclusions; References; Index; Download CD/DVD content Summary The Nature of Heritage: The New South Africa is unique in revealing the conflicts inherent in preserving both natural and cultural heritage, by examining the archaeological, ethnographic and economic evidence of a nation's attempts to master its past and its future. Provides a classic example of how nations attempt to overcome a negative heritage through past mastering of their historiesEvaluates the continuing dominance of nature and conservation over concerns for cultural heritageEmploys ethnographic and archaeological methodologies to reveal how the past Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 217-247) and index Notes Print version record Subject Ethnology -- South Africa. Archaeology -- South Africa Cultural property -- South Africa Post-apartheid era -- South Africa National characteristics, South African. South Africans. POLITICAL SCIENCE -- Public Policy -- Cultural Policy. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Anthropology -- Cultural. SOCIAL SCIENCE -- Popular Culture. South Africans Antiquities Archaeology Cultural property Ethnology National characteristics, South African Post-apartheid era Race relations Kulturerbe Nationenbildung Weltnaturerbe. Kulturerbe. SUBJECT Kruger National Park (South Africa) -- History Kruger National Park (South Africa) -- Antiquities South Africa -- Race relations. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh85125494 South Africa -- Antiquities. http://id.loc.gov/authorities/subjects/sh86000977 Subject South Africa South Africa -- Kruger National Park Krüger-Nationalpark Südafrika Südafrika (Staat) Genre/Form History Form Electronic book ISBN 9781118106631 1118106636

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