Tabla de Contenidos:
  • Machine generated contents note: PART I
  • Prologue: A Cult of Heritage
  • Introduction: World Heritage as Event
  • 1. Global Heritage Assemblages: Toward an Anthropology of the Contemporary
  • 2. Diagnosis: Modern Architectural Heritage as an Anthropological Problem
  • Crystal Palace
  • Tradition against Itself
  • Problematizing Modernity
  • 3. Pathway
  • Conservation versus Stylistic Restoration
  • Heritage Preservation versus Architectural Innovation
  • Modernization versus Heritage Preservation
  • Toward Heritage Preservation for Modernization
  • Institutionalization of Modern Architectural Heritage
  • Modern Architectural Heritage in Africa as an Anthropological Problem
  • 4. Analysis: Global Heritage Assemblages and Modern Architecture in Africa
  • Crisis of Coevalness
  • Site of Inquiry/Mode of Inquiry
  • Form of Inquiry
  • Toward a New Form of Inquiry
  • On the Frontlines
  • PART II
  • 5. Modern Nostalgia: Asserting Politics of Sovereignty and Security in Asmara, Washington and Brussels
  • Politics of Sovereignty and Security
  • Global Heritage Assemblage around the Modern Architecture of Asmara
  • Asserting Sovereignty and Security
  • Restorative Nostalgia/Reflective Nostalgia
  • Conclusion
  • 6. Modern Trophy: Contesting Technologies of Authenticity and Value in Niamey, Brazzaville, Paris, New York and Venice
  • Technologies of Authenticity and Value
  • Global Heritage Assemblage around the Maisons Tropicales
  • Contesting Authenticity and Value
  • Recontextualization/Remediation
  • Conclusion
  • 7. Many Words for Modern: Negotiating Ethics of Legitimacy and Responsibility in Dar es Salaam, Utrecht, Amsterdam and Accra
  • Ethics of Legitimacy and Responsibility
  • Global Heritage Assemblage around Modern Architecture in East Africa
  • Negotiating Legitimacy and Responsibility
  • Laboratory/Collaboratory
  • Conclusion
  • PART III
  • 8. Synthesis: Contemporary Politics, Technologies and Ethics to the Rescue of Modernity
  • Spaces of Experience/Horizons of Expectation
  • States of Emergence
  • Demands of the Day.