The Politics Of Heritage In Africa

Author : Derek R. Peterson,Kodzo Gavua,Ciraj Rassool
Publisher : Unknown
Page : 291 pages
File Size : 44,6 Mb
Release : 2016-12-01
Category : Cultural property
ISBN : 1107552303

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The Politics of Heritage in Africa African Edition by Derek R. Peterson,Kodzo Gavua,Ciraj Rassool Pdf

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 artifacts 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 life ways 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 organization, a means by which the relics of the past are shored up, reconstructed and revalued as commodities, as tradition, as morality or as patrimony.

Author : Derek R. Peterson,Kodzo Gavua,Ciraj Rassool
Publisher : Cambridge University Press
Page : 315 pages
File Size : 42,6 Mb
Release : 2015-03-02
Category : History
ISBN : 9781107094857

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The Politics of Heritage in Africa by Derek R. Peterson,Kodzo Gavua,Ciraj Rassool Pdf

This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation - where heritage work has a uniquely wide currency.

Author : Raymond Silverman,George Abungu,Peter Probst
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 284 pages
File Size : 55,9 Mb
Release : 2021-08-31
Category : Art
ISBN : 9781000428643

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National Museums in Africa by Raymond Silverman,George Abungu,Peter Probst Pdf

National Museums in Africa brings the voices of African museum professionals into dialogue with scholars and, by so doing, is able to consider the state of African national museums from fresh perspectives. Covering all regions of the continent, the volume’s thirteen chapters allow for a deep and nuanced understanding of the intricate interplay between past and present in contemporary Africa. Taking stock of the shifting museum landscape in Africa, with new players like China and South Korea challenging the conditions of cultural exchange, the book demonstrates that national museums are being rediscovered as important sites of political engagement and cultural negotiation. This is the first book to critically examine the roles national museums in Africa have played in the societies in which they are situated, but it is also the first to consider the roles that national museums might play in current debates concerning the restitution and repatriation of cultural patrimony taken from Africa during the colonial era. Informed by a comparative and interdisciplinary perspective, this ground-breaking book will appeal to anyone interested in museums in Africa. It will be particularly useful to scholars and students working in the areas of museum and heritage studies, African studies, anthropology, archaeology, history, art history and cultural studies.

Author : Charlotte L Joy
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 301 pages
File Size : 41,8 Mb
Release : 2016-06-16
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315417516

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The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali by Charlotte L Joy Pdf

The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Djenné, in modern day Mali, is exalted as an enduring wonder of the ancient African world by archaeologists, anthropologists, state officials, architects and travel writers. In this revealing study, the author critically examines how the politics of heritage management, conservation, and authenticity play essential roles in the construction of Djenné’s past and its appropriation for contemporary purposes. Despite its great renown, the majority of local residents remain desperately poor. And while most are proud of their cultural heritage, they are often troubled by the limitations it places on their day to day living conditions. Joy argues for a more critical understanding of this paradox and urges us all to reconsider the moral and philosophical questions surrounding the ways in which we use the past in the present.

Author : Daniel Alan Herwitz
Publisher : Columbia University Press
Page : 234 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2012
Category : History
ISBN : 9780231160186

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Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony by Daniel Alan Herwitz Pdf

The postcolonial state, like its European predecessor of the 18th and 19th centuries, deploys heritage institutions and instruments, museums, courts of law, and universities to empower itself with unity, longevity, exaltation of value, origin, and destiny. This book reveals the febrile pitch at which heritage is staked by examining situations in South Africa, India, and the US, to capture its perfect embodiment of the struggle to seize culture and society at moments of profound social change.

Author : Tuuli Lähdesmäki,Suzie Thomas,Yujie Zhu
Publisher : Berghahn Books
Page : 189 pages
File Size : 52,9 Mb
Release : 2019-01-02
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781789200171

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Politics of Scale by Tuuli Lähdesmäki,Suzie Thomas,Yujie Zhu Pdf

Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study seeking to explore power relations involved in the production and meaning-making of cultural heritage. Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies. The international contributors provide examples and debates from a range of diverse countries, discuss how heritage and scale interact in current processes of heritage meaning-making, and explore heritage-scale relationship as a domain of politics.

Author : DUANE. JETHRO
Publisher : Taylor & Francis
Page : 207 pages
File Size : 40,5 Mb
Release : 2019
Category : Electronic
ISBN : 9781350059795

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HERITAGE FORMATION AND THE SENSES IN POST-APARTHEID SOUTH AFRICA by DUANE. JETHRO Pdf

Author : Cassandra Mark-Thiesen,Moritz Mihatsch,Michelle Sikes
Publisher : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG
Page : 230 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2021-12-06
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783110655315

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The Politics of Historical Memory and Commemoration in Africa by Cassandra Mark-Thiesen,Moritz Mihatsch,Michelle Sikes Pdf

Essays in Memory of Jan-Georg Deutsch The volume observes some of the principles that drove Prof. Jan-Georg Deutsch's research: highlighting present-day politics for the way they shape historical remembrance, learning from people on the ground through fieldwork and oral history, and bringing various parts of the African continent into discussion with one another. From Cape Town to Charlottesville, many societies are grappling with historical consciousness and the production of public memory. In particular, how and why societies remember and forget, what should serve as symbols of collective memory, and whether there exists space for multiple memory cultures are questions being vigorously debated once again. These discussions present particular challenges not only to official memory bound to ideological constructions of nationhood but also to the teaching of history and its links to social justice movements. The volume re-centres Africa and African history in memory studies, with each chapter drawing parallels to comparable cases in Africa and the world. An underlying assumption is that what can be learned from the politics of historical memory in Africa will have relevance for contemporary politics globally and for understanding how memories can be mobilised for political ends.

Author : John W Harbeson,Donald Rothchild
Publisher : Westview Press
Page : 428 pages
File Size : 50,7 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : History
ISBN : UOM:39015077665050

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Africa in World Politics by John W Harbeson,Donald Rothchild Pdf

Top contributors in the field of African politics write on the issues concerning this marginalized continent and its relationship to the global political and economic orders.

Author : Edwin Egede
Publisher : Springer Science & Business Media
Page : 271 pages
File Size : 42,5 Mb
Release : 2011-03-22
Category : Law
ISBN : 9783642176623

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Africa and the Deep Seabed Regime: Politics and International Law of the Common Heritage of Mankind by Edwin Egede Pdf

This book seeks to fill a gap in the existing literature by examining the role of African States in the development and establishment of the regime of the deep seabed beyond national jurisdiction (the Area) and the concept of the Common Heritage of Mankind.

Author : Ferdinand de Jong,Michael Rowlands
Publisher : Routledge
Page : 270 pages
File Size : 55,5 Mb
Release : 2016-06-03
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9781315421117

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Reclaiming Heritage by Ferdinand de Jong,Michael Rowlands Pdf

Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programs build monuments to reinforce in nation building efforts—often supported by international organizations and tourist dollars. These efforts often ignore the other, often more troubling memories preserved by local communities—markers of colonial oppression, cultural genocide, and ethnic identity. Yet, as the contributors to this volume note, questions of memory, heritage, identity and conservation are interwoven at the local, ethnic, national and global level and cannot be easily disentangled. In a fascinating series of cases from West Africa, anthropologists, archaeologists and art historians show how memory and heritage play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts. Settings range from televised ritual performances in Mali to monument conservation in Djenne and slavery memorials in Ghana.

Author : Kenji Yoshida,John Mack
Publisher : James Currey Limited
Page : 0 pages
File Size : 46,9 Mb
Release : 2008
Category : Art
ISBN : 0852559828

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Preserving the Cultural Heritage of Africa by Kenji Yoshida,John Mack Pdf

Addresses the continuing problems of the export of art and artefacts from Africa, and also of the design and target audiences of exhibitions both within and outside the continent.

Author : Susan Osireditse Keitumetse
Publisher : Springer
Page : 227 pages
File Size : 54,8 Mb
Release : 2016-07-11
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9783319320175

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African Cultural Heritage Conservation and Management by Susan Osireditse Keitumetse Pdf

For a long time, resource conservationists have viewed environmental conservation as synonymous with wilderness and wildlife resources only, oblivious to the contributions made by cultural and heritage resources. However, cultural heritage resources in many parts of the developing world are gradually becoming key in social (e.g. communities’ identities and museums), economic (heritage tourism and eco-tourism), educational (curriculum development), civic (intergenerational awareness), and international resources management (e.g. UNESCO). In universities, African cultural heritage resources are facing a challenge of being brought into various academic discourses and syllabi in a rather reactive and/or haphazard approach, resulting in failure to fully address and research these resources’ conservation needs to ensure that their use in multiple platforms and by various stakeholders is sustainable. This book seeks to place African cultural heritage studies and conservation practices within an international and modern world discourse of conservation by presenting its varied themes and topics that are important for the development of the wider field of cultural heritage studies and management.

Author : Toyin Falola,Augustine Agwuele
Publisher : University Rochester Press
Page : 350 pages
File Size : 44,5 Mb
Release : 2009
Category : Literary Criticism
ISBN : 9781580463317

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Africans and the Politics of Popular Culture by Toyin Falola,Augustine Agwuele Pdf

Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.

Author : Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mubaya, Tapuwa R.
Publisher : Langaa RPCIG
Page : 376 pages
File Size : 46,5 Mb
Release : 2015-12-12
Category : Social Science
ISBN : 9789956763726

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Colonial Heritage, Memory and Sustainability in Africa by Mawere, Munyaradzi,Mubaya, Tapuwa R. Pdf

This book serves as a drive and medium for constructive analysis, critical thinking, and informed change in the broad area of cultural heritage studies. In Africa, how to overturn the gory effects and reverse the wholesale obnoxious and unpardonable losses suffered from the excruciating experience of colonialism in a manner that empowers the present and future generations, remains a burning question. Colonial and liberation war heritage have received insignificant attention. The relevance, nature, and politics at play when it comes to the role of memory and colonial heritage in view of nation-building and sustainability on the continent is yet to receive careful practical and theoretical attention and scrutiny from both heritage scholars and governments. Yet, colonial heritage has vast potentials that if harnessed could reverse the gargantuan losses of colonialism and promote sustainable development in Africa. The book critically reflects on the opportunities, constraints, and challenges of colonial heritage across Africa. It draws empirical evidence from its focus on Zimbabwe, South Africa, Nigeria, Ghana, Zambia, and Mozambique, to advance the thesis that cultural heritage in Africa, and in particular colonial heritage, faces challenges of epic proportions that require urgent attention.