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)). 
 - 1 online resource (291 pages) :  ill, maps 
 - The international African library .
 - International African library. .
<br/><br/> Papers first presented at a conference held July 2011 at Museum Africa, Johannesburg. 
<br/><br/>Includes bibliographical references and index. 
<br/><br/> Introduction: heritage management in colonial and contemporary Africa /  Heritage and legacy in the South African state and university /  Seeing beyond the official and the vernacular : the Duncan Village Massacre memorial and the politics of heritage in South Africa /  Fences, signs and property : heritage, development and the making of location in Lwandle /  Monuments and negotiations of power in Ghana /  Of chiefs, tourists and culture : heritage production in contemporary Ghana /  Human remains, the disciplines of the dead, and the South African memorial complex /  Heritage vs. heritage : reaching for pre-Zulu identities in Kwazulu-Natal, South Africa /  9/11 and the painful death of an Asante king : national tragedies in comparative perspective /  Visions of ethnicity in nineteenth-century African linguistics /  The role of language in forging new identities : countering a heritage of servitude /  Folk opera and the cultural politics of post-independence Ghana : Saka Acquaye's "The lost fishermen" /  Flashes of modernity : heritage according to cinema /  Conclusion /  Derek Peterson --  Daniel Herwitz --  Gary Minkley and Phindi Mnyaka --  Leslie Witz and No�eleen Murray --  Kodzo Gavua --  Ray Silverman --  Ciraj Rassool --  Mbongiseni Buthelezi --  Kwesi Yankah --  Judy Irvine --  Mary Esther Dakubu --  Moses Nii-Dortey --  Litheko Modisane --  Carolyn Hamilton. 
<br/><br/> "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"--Provided by publisher. 
<br/><br/><br/>English. 
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<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Cultural property--Political aspects--Ghana--Congresses.<br/>Heritage tourism--Political aspects--South Africa--Congresses.<br/>Ethnological museums and collections--Political aspects--South Africa--Congresses.<br/>BUSINESS & ECONOMICS--Infrastructure.<br/>SOCIAL SCIENCE--General.<br/>Cultural property--Protection
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Geographic Terms: </label><br/>Ghana<br/>South Africa
<br/><br/><label>LC Class. No.: </label>DT510.4  / .P65