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).
- xx, 291 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm.
- The international African library .
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 / 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.
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Cultural property -- Political aspects -- Ghana -- Congresses. Cultural property -- Political aspects -- South Africa--Congresses. Heritage tourism -- Political aspects -- Ghana -- Congresses.