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archaeological theory
Author_Joost Fontein
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British South Africa Company
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clan land disputes
colonial narratives
committee
Conical Tower
contested heritage site Zimbabwe
Dawson Munjeri
Eddison Zvobgo
enclosure
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ethnographic research
Great Enclosure
Great Zimbabwe
heritage
heritage politics
list
masvingo
Masvingo Province
mediums
National Sacred Site
province
Richard Hall
sacred landscapes
Shona Village
spirit
Spirit Mediums
Stan Mudenge
Traditional Connoisseurs
UNESCO Consultant
UNESCO's World Heritage Convention
VIP Visitor
world
World Heritage
World Heritage Committee
World Heritage List
Young Man
ZANU PF.
Zimbabwe Birds
Zimbabwean Nationalism
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- ISBN 9781598742213
- Weight: 408g
- Dimensions: 152 x 229mm
- Publication Date: 17 Feb 2006
- Publisher: Left Coast Press Inc
- Publication City/Country: US
- Product Form: Paperback
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This book examines the politics of landscape and heritage by focusing on the example of Great Zimbabwe National Monument in southern Zimbabwe. The controversy that surrounded the site in the early part of the 20th century, between colonial antiquarians and professional archaeologists, is well reported in the published literature. Based on long term ethnographic field work around Great Zimbabwe, as well as archival research in NMMZ, in the National Archives of Zimbabwe, and several months of research at the World Heritage Centre in Paris, this new book represents an important step beyond that controversy over origins, to focus on the site's position in local contests between, and among individuals within, the Nemanwa, Charumbira and Mugabe clans over land, power and authority. To justify their claims, chiefs, spirit mediums and elders of each clan make appeals to different, but related, constructions of the past. Emphasising the disappearance of the 'Voice' that used to speak there, these narratives also describe the destruction, alienation and desecration of Great Zimbabwe that occurred, and continues, through the international and national, archaeological and heritage processes and practices by which Great Zimbabwe has become a national and world heritage site today.
Joost Fontein
