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1 Online-Ressource (xx, 291 pages)
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ISBN:
9781316151181
Series Statement:
The International African library 48
Content:
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.
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Introduction: heritage management in colonial and contemporary Africa
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Heritage and legacy in the South African state and university
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Seeing beyond the official and the vernacular : the Duncan Village Massacre memorial and the politics of heritage in South Africa
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Fences, signs and property : heritage, development and the making of location in Lwandle
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Monuments and negotiations of power in Ghana
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Of chiefs, tourists and culture : heritage production in contemporary Ghana
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Human remains, the disciplines of the dead, and the South African memorial complex
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Heritage vs. heritage : reaching for pre-Zulu identities in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa
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9/11 and the painful death of an Asante king : national tragedies in comparative perspective
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Visions of ethnicity in nineteenth-century African linguistics
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The role of language in forging new identities : countering a heritage of servitude
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Folk opera and the cultural politics of post-independence Ghana : Saka Acquaye's "The lost fishermen"
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Flashes of modernity : heritage according to cinema
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Conclusion
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107477476
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107094857
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107094857
Additional Edition:
ISBN 9781107477476
Additional Edition:
Erscheint auch als Druck-Ausgabe ISBN 9781107094857
Language:
English
Keywords:
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DOI:
10.1017/CBO9781316151181
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