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The Politics of Heritage in Africa

The Politics of Heritage in Africa

Gavua, Kodzo
Rassool, Ciraj
Peterson, Derek

Hardcover

Series: International African Library, Book 48

African History

ISBN10: 1107094852
ISBN13: 9781107094857
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Published: Mar 2 2015
Pages: 311
Weight: 1.20
Height: 0.90 Width: 6.20 Depth: 9.10
Language: English
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.

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