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...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Clasificación:Libro Electrónico
Otros Autores: Peterson, Derek R., 1971- (Editor ), Gavua, Kodzo (Editor ), Rassool, Ciraj (Editor )
Formato: Electrónico eBook
Idioma:Inglés
Publicado: New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2015]
Colección:International African library.
Temas:
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.
Tourisme culturel > Aspect politique > Ghāna > Congrès.
Tourisme culturel > Aspect politique > Afrique du Sud > Congrès.
Ethnologie > Musées et collections > Aspect politique > Ghāna > Congrès.
Ethnologie > Musées et collections > Aspect politique > Afrique du Sud > Congrès.
BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.
Cultural property > Protection
Ghana
South Africa
Conference papers and proceedings
Acceso en línea:Texto completo
Tabla de Contenidos:
  • 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.

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