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Reclaiming heritage : alternative imaginaries of memory in West Africa /

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.

Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: De Jong, Ferdinand, Rowlands, M. J.
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: Walnut Creek, Calif. : Left Coast Press, ©2007.
Colección:Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. Critical perspectives on cultural heritage.
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Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.