The politics of heritage in Africa : economies, histories, and infrastructures / edited by Derek Peterson (University of Michigan), Kodzo Gavua (University of Ghana), Ciraj Rassool (University of the Western Cape (South Africa)).

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Peterson, Derek R., 1971- editor.

Gavua, Kodzo, editor.

Rassool, Ciraj, editor.

Cambridge University Press.

George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

Series:

International African library

The international African library

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property--Political aspects--Ghana--Congresses.

Cultural property.

Cultural property--Political aspects--South Africa--Congresses.

Heritage tourism--Political aspects--Ghana--Congresses.

Heritage tourism.

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.

Ethnological museums and collections--Political aspects--South Africa--Congresses.

Cultural property--Protection.

South Africa.

Ghana.

Genre:

Conference papers and proceedings.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (291 pages) : illustrations, maps.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, [2015]

System Details:

text file

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.

Notes:

Papers first presented at a conference held July 2011 at Museum Africa, Johannesburg.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

Electronic reproduction. Cambridge Available via World Wide Web.

Print version record.

Local Notes:

Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the George Clapp Vaillant Book Fund.

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Print version:

ISBN:

9781316235508

1316235505

9781316248744

1316248747

Publisher Number:

99965452613

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