| Description |
1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Series |
The international African library |
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International African library.
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| Contents |
Introduction: heritage management in colonial and contemporary Africa / Derek Peterson -- Heritage and legacy in the South African state and university / Daniel Herwitz -- Seeing beyond the official and the vernacular : the Duncan Village Massacre memorial and the politics of heritage in South Africa / Gary Minkley and Phindi Mnyaka -- Fences, signs and property : heritage, development and the making of location in Lwandle / Leslie Witz and Noëleen Murray -- Monuments and negotiations of power in Ghana / Kodzo Gavua -- Of chiefs, tourists and culture : heritage production in contemporary Ghana / Ray Silverman -- Human remains, the disciplines of the dead, and the South African memorial complex / Ciraj Rassool -- Heritage vs. heritage : reaching for pre-Zulu identities in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa / Mbongiseni Buthelezi -- 9/11 and the painful death of an Asante king : national tragedies in comparative perspective / Kwesi Yankah -- Visions of ethnicity in nineteenth-century African linguistics / Judy Irvine -- The role of language in forging new identities : countering a heritage of servitude / Mary Esther Dakubu -- Folk opera and the cultural politics of post-independence Ghana : Saka Acquaye's "The lost fishermen" / Moses Nii-Dortey -- Flashes of modernity : heritage according to cinema / Litheko Modisane -- Conclusion / Carolyn Hamilton |
| Summary |
"Heritage work has had a uniquely wide currency in Africa's politics. Secure within the pages of books, encoded in legal statutes, encased in glass display cases and enacted in the panoply of court ritual, the artefacts produced by the heritage domain have become a resource for government administration, a library for traditionalists and a marketable source of value for cultural entrepreneurs. The Politics of Heritage in Africa draws together disparate fields of study -- history, archaeology, linguistics, the performing arts and cinema -- to show how the lifeways of the past were made into capital, a store of authentic knowledge that political and cultural entrepreneurs could draw from. This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation, a means by which the relics of the past are shored up, reconstructed and revalued as commodities, as tradition, as morality or as patrimony"--Provided by publisher |
| Notes |
Papers first presented at a conference held July 2011 at Museum Africa, Johannesburg |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Cultural property -- Political aspects -- Ghana -- Congresses
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Cultural property -- Political aspects -- South Africa -- Congresses
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Heritage tourism -- Political aspects -- Ghana -- Congresses
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Heritage tourism -- Political aspects -- South Africa -- Congresses
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Cultural property -- Protection -- Ghana -- Congresses
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Cultural property -- Protection -- South Africa -- Congresses
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Ethnological museums and collections -- Political aspects -- Ghana -- Congresses
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Ethnological museums and collections -- Political aspects -- South Africa -- Congresses
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Infrastructure.
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SOCIAL SCIENCE -- General.
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Cultural property -- Protection
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Ghana
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South Africa
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| Genre/Form |
Conference papers and proceedings
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| Author |
Peterson, Derek R., 1971- editor.
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Gavua, Kodzo, editor
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Rassool, Ciraj, editor
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| ISBN |
9781316235508 |
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1316235505 |
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9781316248744 |
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1316248747 |
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1316256316 |
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9781316256312 |
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1316237397 |
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9781316237397 |
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1316254429 |
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9781316254424 |
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1316250636 |
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9781316250631 |
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1316252523 |
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9781316252529 |
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1316151182 |
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9781316151181 |
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