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The Politics of Heritage in Africa

Derek R. Peterson, Kodzo Gavua, Ciraj Rassool · ISBN 9781107477476
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Publisher Cambridge University Press
Author(s) Derek R. Peterson / Kodzo Gavua / Ciraj Rassool
Subtitle Economies, Histories, and Infrastructures
Published 31st August 2017
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Economies, Histories, and Infrastructures

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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