TY  - BOOK
AU  - Peterson,Derek R.
AU  - Gavua,Kodzo
AU  - Rassool,Ciraj
TI  - The politics of heritage in Africa: economies, histories, and infrastructures 
T2  - The international African library
SN  - 9781107094857 (hardback)
AV  - DT510.4 .P65 2015
U1  - 363.69096 23
PY  - 2015///
CY  - New York
PB  - Cambridge University
KW  - Cultural property
KW  - Political aspects
KW  - Ghana
KW  - Congresses
KW  - South Africa
KW  - Heritage tourism
KW  - Protection
KW  - Ethnological museums and collections
N1  - 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
ER  -