The Politics of Heritage in Africa : Economies, Histories, and Infrastructures
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Format
Hardback or Cased Book
Book Series
The International African Library
ISBN-10
1107094852
ISBN-13
9781107094857
Publisher
Cambridge University Press
Imprint
Cambridge University Press
Country of Manufacture
GB
Country of Publication
GB
Publication Date
Mar 2nd, 2015
Print length
311 Pages
Weight
574 grams
Dimensions
23.60 x 16.10 x 2.30 cms
Product Classification:
African historyEconomic historyAfrican history
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This book draws together studies from history, archaeology, linguistics, the performing arts and cinema to show how the lifeways of the past were made into a store of authentic knowledge that political and cultural entrepreneurs could draw from - showing African heritage to be a mode of political organisation.
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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