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The politics of heritage in Africa : economies, histories, and infrastructures /
"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...
| Clasificación: | Libro Electrónico |
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| Otros Autores: | , , |
| Formato: | Electrónico eBook |
| Idioma: | Inglés |
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New York, NY :
Cambridge University Press,
[2015]
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| Colección: | International African library.
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| Acceso en línea: | Texto completo |
| Sumario: | "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. |
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| Notas: | Papers first presented at a conference held July 2011 at Museum Africa, Johannesburg. |
| Descripción Física: | 1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations, maps |
| Bibliografía: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781316235508 1316235505 9781316248744 1316248747 1316256316 9781316256312 1316237397 9781316237397 1316254429 9781316254424 1316250636 9781316250631 1316252523 9781316252529 1316151182 9781316151181 |