ISBN:
9781107094857
Language:
English
Pages:
xx, 291 Seiten
,
Illustrationen, Karten
Edition:
First published
Series Statement:
The International African library [48]
Series Statement:
International African library
DDC:
363.69096
Keywords:
Cultural property -- Political aspects -- Ghana -- Congresses
;
Cultural property -- 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
;
Heritage tourism -- Political aspects -- Ghana -- Congresses
;
Heritage tourism -- Political aspects -- South Africa -- Congresses
;
Afrika südlich der Sahara Erinnerungspolitik/Erinnerungskultur
;
Denkmal
;
Politische Geschichte
;
Kulturelle Identität
;
Identitätskonstruktion
;
Vergangenheitsbewältigung
;
Politische Macht
;
Ethnizität
;
Beispielhafte Fälle
;
Africa south of the Sahara Politics of memory/culture of memory
;
Monuments
;
Political history
;
Cultural identity
;
Identity construction
;
Coming to terms with the past
;
Political power
;
Ethnicity
;
Exemplary cases
;
Kolonialzeit Südafrikanische Republik
;
Eastern Cape
;
KwaZulu Natal
;
Zulu (Volk)
;
Massaker
;
Cape Town
;
Ghana
;
Autorität
;
Traditionelle Kultur
;
Tourismus
;
Totenbestattung
;
Sprache
;
Kulturpolitik
;
Musik
;
Film
;
Colonial age South Africa
;
RSA
;
Zulu (People)
;
Massacres
;
Authority
;
Traditional culture
;
Tourism
;
Burials
;
Language
;
Cultural policy
;
Music
;
Films
;
Konferenzschrift
Abstract:
Cover; Half title; Epigraph; Series; Title; Copyright; Contents; List of Maps and Figures; Notes on Contributors; Preface and Acknowledgements; 1 Introduction: Heritage Management in Colonial and Contemporary Africa; 2 Heritage and Legacy in the South African State and University; 3 Seeing Beyond the Official and the Vernacular: The Duncan Village Massacre Memorial and the Politics of Heritage in South Africa; 4 Fences, Signs, and Property: Heritage, Development, and the Making of Location in Lwandle; 5 Monuments and Negotiations of Power in Ghana
Abstract:
6 Of Chiefs, Tourists, and Culture: Heritage Production in Contemporary Ghana7 Human Remains, the Disciplines of the Dead, and the South African Memorial Complex; 8 Heritage vs Heritage: Reaching for Pre-Zulu Identities in KwaZulu-Natal, South Africa; 9 9/11and the Painful Death of an Asante King: National Tragedies in Comparative Perspective; 10 Language as Cultural 'Heritage': Visions of Ethnicity in Nineteenth-Century African Linguistics; 11 The Role of Language in Forging New Identities: Countering a Heritage of Servitude
Abstract:
12 Folk Opera and the Cultural Politics of Post-Independence Ghana: Saka Acquaye's The Lost Fishermen13 Flashes of Modernity: Heritage According to Cinema; 14 Conclusion; Bibliography; Index
Abstract:
This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation - where heritage work has a uniquely wide currency
Note:
Papers first presented at a conference held July 2011 at Museum Africa, Johannesburg
