The politics of heritage in Africa : economies, histories, and infrastructures edited by Derek Peterson, Kodzo Gavua, Ciraj Rassool

By: Gavua, KodzoContributor(s): Peterson, Derek R | Rassool, CirajSeries: The international African libraryPublication details: New York Cambridege University Press 2015Description: xx, 291 p. : illISBN: 9781107094857 Subject(s): CULTURAL PROPERTY--POLITICAL ASPECTS--GHANA--CONGRESSES | CULTURAL PROPERTY--POLITICAL ASPECTS--SOUTH AFRICA--CONGRESSES | HERTIAGE TOURISM--POLITICAL ASPECTS--GHANA--CONGRESSES | ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS--POLITICAL ASPECTS--GHANA--CONGRESSES | HERTIAGE TOURISM--POLITICAL ASPECTS--SOUTH AFRICA--CONGRESSES | CULTURAL PROPERTY--PROTECTION--GHANA --CONGRESSES | CULTURAL PROPERTY--PROTECTION--SOUTH AFRICA--CONGRESSES | ETHNOLOGICAL MUSEUMS AND COLLECTIONS--POLITICAL ASPECTS--SOUTH AFRICA--CONGRESSESLOC classification: DT 510.4 Pol
Contents:
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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Papers first presented at a conference held July 2011 at Museum Africa, Johannesburg. Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-278) and index.

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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