Research Catalog

Title

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).

Publication

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

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Details

Additional Authors

• Peterson, Derek R., 1971-
• Gavua, Kodzo
• Rassool, Ciraj

Description

xx, 291 pages : illustrations, maps; 24 cm.

Summary

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.

Series Statement

The international African library

Uniform Title

International African library.

Subjects

• Cultural property > Protection > South Africa > Congresses
• Heritage tourism > Political aspects > South Africa > Congresses
• Cultural property > Political aspects > South Africa > Congresses
• Cultural property > Protection > Ghana > Congresses
• Ethnological museums and collections > Political aspects > South Africa > Congresses
• Heritage tourism > Political aspects > Ghana > Congresses
• Ethnological museums and collections > Political aspects > Ghana > Congresses
• Cultural property > Political aspects > Ghana > Congresses

Note

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

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-278) and index.

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.

Call Number

Sc E 15-902

ISBN

• 9781107094857 (hardback)
• 1107094852 (hardback)
• 9781107552302
• 1107552303

LCCN

2014038236

OCLC

894491671

Title

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).

Publisher

New York, NY : Cambridge University Press, 2015.

Type of Content

text

Type of Medium

unmediated

Type of Carrier

volume

Series

The international African library

International African library.

Bibliography

Includes bibliographical references (pages 261-278) and index.

Added Author

Peterson, Derek R., 1971- editor.

Gavua, Kodzo, editor.

Rassool, Ciraj, editor.

Research Call Number

Sc E 15-902