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    The _politics of heritage in Africa : Economies, histories, and infrastructures (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 978-1-107-09485-7 , 1-107-09485-2
    Language: English
    Pages: XX, 291 S. , Ill., Kt.
    Series Statement: International African Library 48
    Keywords: Afrika Ghana ; Republik Südafrika ; kulturelles Eigentum ; Museum ; Politik ; Geschichte ; Tagungsbericht
    Abstract: 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.
    Description / Table of Contents: 1. Introduction: heritage management in colonial and contemporary Africa D. R. Peterson; 2. Heritage and legacy in the South African state and university D. Herwitz; 3. Seeing beyond the official and the vernacular: the Duncan Village Massacre Memorial and the politics of heritage in South Africa G. Minkley and P. Mnyaka; 4. Fences, signs and property: heritage, development and the making of location in Lwandle L. Witz and N. Murray; 5. Monuments and negotiations of power in Ghana K. Gavua; 6. Of chiefs, tourists and culture: heritage production in contemporary Ghana R. Silverman; 7. Human remains, the disciplines of the dead and the South African memorial complex C. Rassool; 8. Heritage versus heritage: reaching for pre-Zulu identities in Kwa-Zulu Natal, South Africa M. Buthelezi; 9. 9/11 and the painful death of an Asante king: national tragedies in comparative perspective K. Yankah; 10. Visions of ethnicity in nineteenth-century African linguistics J. Irvine; 11. The role of language in forging new identities: countering a heritage of servitude M. E. Dakubu; 12. Folk opera and the cultural politics of post-independence Ghana: Saka Acquaye's 'The Lost Fishermen' M. Nii-Dortey; 13. Flashes of modernity: heritage according to cinema L. Modisane; 14. Conclusion C. Hamilton.
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    The politics of heritage in Africa : economies, histories, and infrastructures (2015)
    Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
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    ISBN: 9781316151181
    Language: English
    Pages: 1 Online-Ressource (XX, 291 S.)
    Series Statement: The International African library 48
    Series Statement: The International African library
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    Parallel Title: Erscheint auch als
    DDC: 363.69096
    RVK:
    LB 35465
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    MI 10930
    Keywords: Geschichte ; Politik ; Cultural property / Political aspects / Ghana / Congresses ; Cultural property / Political aspects / South Africa / Congresses ; Heritage tourism / Political aspects / Ghana / Congresses ; Heritage tourism / Political aspects / South Africa / Congresses ; Cultural property / Protection / Ghana / Congresses ; Cultural property / Protection / South Africa / Congresses ; Ethnological museums and collections / Political aspects / Ghana / Congresses ; Ethnological museums and collections / Political aspects / South Africa / Congresses ; Kulturpolitik ; Kulturerbe ; Südafrika (Staat) ; Afrika ; Johannesburg ; Konferenzschrift 2011 ; Afrika ; Kulturerbe ; Kulturpolitik ; Geschichte ; Johannesburg
    Abstract: 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
    Note: Papers first presented at a conference held July 2011 at Museum Africa, Johannesburg. , Title from publisher's bibliographic system (viewed on 05 Oct 2015)
    DOI: 10.1017/CBO9781316151181
    URL: Volltext  (URL des Erstveröffentlichers)
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