Author: John Beardsley Publisher: Dumbarton Oaks Research Library & Collection ISBN: 9780884024101 Category : Archaeology Languages : en Pages : 0
Book Description
Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa studies landscape spaces created by and for Africans themselves, from the precolonial era to the present. Contributors explore how these landscapes were understood in the colonial era and how they are being recuperated today for nation building, identity formation, and cultural affirmation.
Author: Dodé Houehounha Publisher: UNESCO Publishing ISBN: 3030809099 Category : History Languages : en Pages : 208
Book Description
This open access book focuses on the management of transboundary UNESCO World Heritage sites in the Africa region. It highlights the region as a model of best practices on cross-border collaboration in view of enforcing the conservation of the site, engaging with local communities, and fighting against (in some cases) extremist groups inhabiting these sites. It also addresses the role of the World Heritage Convention in promoting transboundary cooperation and offers both an analysis and a list of priorities for improving the effective management of transboundary properties in sub-Saharan Africa defined. This book presents chapters from experts, site managers, technical and financial partners, academics, and representatives of the private sector from 20 African countries and 15 institutions involved in African heritage management. It provides an opportunity to share current and planned initiatives at the transboundary sites inscribed on the UNESCO World Heritage List, including the Maloti-Drakensberg Park (South Africa, Lesotho), W-Arly-Pendjari Complex (Benin, Burkina Faso, Niger), Sangha Trinational (Cameroon, Congo, Central African Republic), and Mosi-oa-Tunya / Victoria Falls (Zambia, Zimbabwe). The publication further discusses African sites that could eventually be proposed for extension or nomination to the UNESCO World Heritage List in collaboration with the local and indigenous communities. This book is suitable for heritage specialists and readers interested in cross-border collaborations.
Author: Simon Makuvaza Publisher: Springer Science & Business Media ISBN: 1493904825 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 106
Book Description
Ever since the signing of the World Heritage Convention 40 years ago and ratified by 33 African countries, to date, only 43 cultural heritage sites have been successfully proclaimed as World Heritage Sites in Africa. These include archaeological and historical sites, religious monuments and cultural landscapes. This book is a re-evaluation of the nomination and management of cultural World Heritage sites in Africa from the late 1970s when the Island of Gorée of Senegal and the Rock-Hewn Churches of Ethiopia were first inscribed on the WHL until today. It considers whether a credible and well balanced WHL has been attained, especially in regards to the nomination of more sites in Africa. The book also examines the roles and contribution of various heritage organizations and African governments to the nomination and management of cultural World Heritage sites in Africa. Lastly, the volume also scrutinizes economic development, which may result from the nomination and successful management of cultural World Heritage sites in Africa.
Author: Britt Baillie Publisher: Springer Nature ISBN: 9811543666 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 363
Book Description
The richness of Africa’s heritage at times stands in stark contrast to the economic, health, political and societal challenges faced. Development is essential but in what forms? For whom? Following whose agendas? At what costs? This book explores how heritage can promote, secure, or undermine sustainable development with special focus on sub-Saharan Africa, and in turn, how this affects conceptions of heritage. The chapters in this volume identify shared challenges, good practices and failures, and use specific case studies to provide detailed insights into varied forms of heritage and heritage defining processes on the continent. By critically analysing the often romanticised discourses of ‘heritage’, ‘community engagement’, and ‘sustainable development’ the volume suggests ways of harnessing aspects of heritage to tackle some of the socio-economic and political pressures facing heritage practices on the continent, including the legacies of colonialism.
Author: Susan Osireditse Keitumetse Publisher: Springer ISBN: 3319320173 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 227
Book Description
For a long time, resource conservationists have viewed environmental conservation as synonymous with wilderness and wildlife resources only, oblivious to the contributions made by cultural and heritage resources. However, cultural heritage resources in many parts of the developing world are gradually becoming key in social (e.g. communities’ identities and museums), economic (heritage tourism and eco-tourism), educational (curriculum development), civic (intergenerational awareness), and international resources management (e.g. UNESCO). In universities, African cultural heritage resources are facing a challenge of being brought into various academic discourses and syllabi in a rather reactive and/or haphazard approach, resulting in failure to fully address and research these resources’ conservation needs to ensure that their use in multiple platforms and by various stakeholders is sustainable. This book seeks to place African cultural heritage studies and conservation practices within an international and modern world discourse of conservation by presenting its varied themes and topics that are important for the development of the wider field of cultural heritage studies and management.
Author: Barbara Cassin Publisher: ISBN: 9782354571030 Category : Cultural property Languages : fr Pages : 337
Book Description
Le patrimoine se décline en objets, en monuments, en forêts, en traditions et récits, mais il se dit toujours en « mots ». C'est en mots que se définissent les critères (exceptionnel, universel, symbolique, immatériel, intégrité, authenticité, identité, nature, culture,...) qui conditionnent, en particulier, la reconnaissance internationale d'un bien patrimonial par l'Unesco. Comment s'opère donc le passage des langues « internationales » aux langues d'Afrique ? À travers la constellation des mots « musée » et « patrimoine » et leurs « équivalents » travaillés en sept langues - ici : en français, anglais, fulfulde et bamanakan, bientôt en swahili, sukuma et tsonga pour la seconde livraison - Les intraduisibles du patrimoine proposent quelques pistes pour alimenter la réflexion sur les enjeux, y compris politiques, du patrimoine dans un contexte mondialisé.
Author: Ashton Sinamai Publisher: Routledge ISBN: 1351022008 Category : Social Science Languages : en Pages : 192
Book Description
This book focuses on a forgotten place—the Khami World Heritage site in Zimbabwe. It examines how professionally ascribed values and conservation priorities affect the cultural landscape when there is a disjuncture between local community and national interests, and explores the epistemic violence that often accompanied colonial heritage management and archaeology in southern Africa. The central premise is that the history of the modern Zimbabwe nation, in terms of what is officially remembered and celebrated, inevitably determines how that past is managed. It is about how places are experienced and remembered through narratives and how the loss of this heritage memory may mark the un-inheriting of place. Memory and Cultural Landscape at the Khami World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe is informed by the author’s experience of living near and working at Great Zimbabwe and Khami as an archaeologist, and uses archives and traditional narratives to build a biography for this lost cultural landscape. Whereas Great Zimbabwe is a resource for the state’s contentious narrative of unity, and a tool for cultural activism among communities whose cultural rights are denied through the nationalisation and globalisation heritage, at Khami, which has lost its historical gravity, there is only silence. Researchers and students of cultural heritage will find this book a much-needed case study on heritage, identity, community and landscape from an African perspective.
Author: John Beardsley
Author: Dodé Houehounha
Author: Simon Makuvaza
Author: UNESCO
Author: Britt Baillie
Author: Jonathan Sharfman
Author: Susan Osireditse Keitumetse
Author: Thierry Joffroy
Author: Barbara Cassin
Author: Ashton Sinamai