The Politics Of Heritage In Africa
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Author | : Derek R. Peterson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2015-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1107094852 |
This book shows African heritage to be a mode of political organisation - where heritage work has a uniquely wide currency.
Author | : Derek R. Peterson |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 315 |
Release | : 2015-03-02 |
Genre | : History |
ISBN | : 1316241173 |
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.
Author | : Daniel Herwitz |
Publisher | : Columbia University Press |
Total Pages | : 233 |
Release | : 2012-09-25 |
Genre | : Philosophy |
ISBN | : 0231530722 |
The act of remaking one's history into a heritage, a conscientiously crafted narrative placed over the past, is a thriving industry in almost every postcolonial culture. This is surprising, given the tainted role of heritage in so much of colonialism's history. Yet the postcolonial state, like its European predecessor of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deploys heritage institutions and instruments, museums, courts of law, and universities to empower itself with unity, longevity, exaltation of value, origin, and destiny. Bringing the eye of a philosopher, the pen of an essayist, and the experience of a public intellectual to the study of heritage, Daniel Herwitz reveals the febrile pitch at which heritage is staked. In this absorbing book, he travels to South Africa and unpacks its controversial and robust confrontations with the colonial and apartheid past. He visits India and reads in its modern art the gesture of a newly minted heritage idealizing the precolonial world as the source of Indian modernity. He traverses the United States and finds in its heritage of incessant invention, small town exceptionalism, and settler destiny a key to contemporary American media-driven politics. Showing how destabilizing, ambivalent, and potentially dangerous heritage is as a producer of contemporary social, aesthetic, and political realities, Herwitz captures its perfect embodiment of the struggle to seize culture and society at moments of profound social change.
Author | : Raymond Silverman |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 284 |
Release | : 2021-08-31 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1000428648 |
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 | : Toyin Falola |
Publisher | : University Rochester Press |
Total Pages | : 350 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Literary Criticism |
ISBN | : 1580463312 |
Explores the instrumentalization of various aspects of popular culture in Africa.
Author | : Edwin Egede |
Publisher | : Springer Science & Business Media |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2011-03-22 |
Genre | : Law |
ISBN | : 3642176623 |
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 | : Marieke Bloembergen |
Publisher | : Cambridge University Press |
Total Pages | : 341 |
Release | : 2020-01-16 |
Genre | : Art |
ISBN | : 1108499023 |
Presents a new approach to heritage formation in Asia, conveying the power of the material remains of the past.
Author | : Charlotte L Joy |
Publisher | : Routledge |
Total Pages | : 301 |
Release | : 2016-06-16 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 1315417510 |
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 | : Joost Fontein |
Publisher | : LAP Lambert Academic Publishing |
Total Pages | : 93 |
Release | : 2009 |
Genre | : Internationalism |
ISBN | : 9783838302836 |
This book explores the politics of heritage. Beyond its use in the construction of identity or the politics of representation, labeling something 'heritage' is an intensely political act that legitimises certain processes over others. As a 'policy document' the World Heritage Convention gives institutional authority to discourses of 'heritage' and 'internationalism'. At the core of the world heritage 'system' is a tension between the need to protect the world's heritage, and the sovereignty of 'State Parties'. While there have been many recent changes to the world heritage 'system' - provoked by the imbalances of the World Heritage List, the eurocentricities its definitions, and a growing concern for its wider credibility, what cannot change is the sovereignty of 'State Parties'. Through labelling something 'world heritage' certain actions of the state are legitimised and empowered by claims to its 'outstanding universal value', which must be preserved for 'humanity'. Thus the world heritage 'system' can be viewed as an 'anti-politics machine' (Ferguson1990) which reifies the role of state bureaucracy in Africa through de-politicised claims to 'universal value'.
Author | : Cassandra Mark-Thiesen |
Publisher | : Walter de Gruyter GmbH & Co KG |
Total Pages | : 230 |
Release | : 2021-12-06 |
Genre | : Social Science |
ISBN | : 3110655314 |
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.