Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa
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Commemorative Days
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FIFA Official
Freedom Park
Heritage Day
Heritage Form
heritage formation
Heritage Projects
Human Rights Violations Hearings
La Guma
Material Cultural Forms
material culture
material culture analysis
Mike Van Graan
multisensory heritage
Nelson Mandela
Post-Apartheid South Africa
postcolonial memory
Robben Island
sensory perception in nation building
sensory studies
Smell Memories
South African
South African Cultural History
South African Football
South African heritage status
South African National
TRC Final Report
TRC Process
urban displacement
Van De Port
Van Graan
Van Schalkwyk
Voortrekker Monument
Young Man
Product details
- ISBN 9781032085722
- Weight: 400g
- Dimensions: 156 x 234mm
- Publication Date: 30 Jun 2021
- Publisher: Taylor & Francis Ltd
- Publication City/Country: GB
- Product Form: Paperback
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In this book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage formation. He shows how the senses were important for crafting and successfully deploying new, nation-building heritage projects in South Africa during the postapartheid period. The book also highlights how heritage dynamics are entangled in evocative, changing sensory worlds.Jethro uses five case studies that correlate with the five main Western senses. Examples include touch and the ruination of a series of art memorials; how vision was mobilised to assert the authority of the state-sponsored Freedom Park project in Pretoria; how smell memories of apartheid-era social life in Cape Town informed contemporary struggles for belonging after forced removal; how taste informed debates about the attempted rebranding of Heritage Day as barbecue day; and how the sound of the vuvuzela, popularized during the FIFA 2010 Football World Cup, helped legitimize its unofficial African and South African heritage status.This book makes a valuable contribution to the field of sensory studies and, with its focus on aesthetics and material culture, is in sync with the broader material turn in the humanities.
Duane Jethro is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage, Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.
