African cultural politics
Bai Bureh
Beverley Butler
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Charlotte Joy
colonial legacy analysis
Cotton Tree
Dorothea E. Schulz
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ethnographic case studies
Ghana Tourist Board
heritage conservation methods
Hut Tax War
Intangible Cultural Heritage
intangible heritage in West Africa
Joseph Project
Katharina Schramm
Masked Performance
Michael Rowlands
Modibo Keita
Osun River
Outstanding Universal
Paul Basu
Peter Probst
Pop Stars
postcolonial memory studies
Ramon Sarr?
ritual performance anthropology
Sierra Leone's Conflict
Sierra Leonean
Sierra Leonean Context
Sierra Leone’s Conflict
Sunjata Keita
Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade
Transatlantic Slave Trade
TRC Report
UNESCO Approach
UNESCO Policy
UNESCO Slave Route Project
Vice Versa
World Heritage Project
Young Men
Product details
- ISBN 9781598743081
- Weight: 430g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 30 Apr 2009
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programs build monuments to reinforce in nation building efforts—often supported by international organizations and tourist dollars. These efforts often ignore the other, often more troubling memories preserved by local communities—markers of colonial oppression, cultural genocide, and ethnic identity. Yet, as the contributors to this volume note, questions of memory, heritage, identity and conservation are interwoven at the local, ethnic, national and global level and cannot be easily disentangled. In a fascinating series of cases from West Africa, anthropologists, archaeologists and art historians show how memory and heritage play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts. Settings range from televised ritual performances in Mali to monument conservation in Djenne and slavery memorials in Ghana.
Ferdinand de Jong, Michael Rowlands
