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.
Product Identifiers
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
ISBN-13
9781107094857
eBay Product ID (ePID)
209236862
Product Key Features
Author
Ciraj Rassool, Kodzo Gavua, Derek R. Peterson
Publication Name
The Politics of Heritage in Africa: Economies, Histories, and Infrastructures
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Subject
Economics, History
Publication Year
2015
Type
Textbook
Number of Pages
311 Pages
Dimensions
Item Height
235mm
Item Width
158mm
Item Weight
570g
Additional Product Features
Series Title
The International African Library
Editor
Ciraj Rassool, Kodzo Gavua, Derek R. Peterson
Country/Region of Manufacture
United Kingdom
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