Reclaiming Heritage
Journal Data
| Type | SOURCE_BOOK |
|---|---|
| Publisher | Taylor & Francis Group |
| ISBN-13 | 9781315421131 |
| Open Library | OL16315536W |
| Total publications | 5 |
| Coverage period | 2016 - 2016 |
| Language | EN |
| Impact factor | 0.2 |
Heritage and Memory in Africa: IntroductionMike Rowlands and Ferdinand de JongOther Origins, New Technologies* 'Taking on a Tradition': African Heritage and the Testimony of MemoryBeverley Butler* Slave Route Projects: Tracing the Heritage of Slavery in GhanaKatharina Schramm* Don't Worship, We Remember. Photography, Memory and the Imagination of Heritage in Osogbo, NigeriaPeter ProbstMateriality and Objectification* Entangled Memories and Parallel Heritages in MaliMike Rowlands * 'Enchanting Town of Mud': Djenne, A World Heritage Site in MaliCharlotte Joy* Masquerading as Intangible Heritage: Contradictions of ConservationFerdinand de JongRecognition, Redemption and Reconciliation* From a Glorious Past to the Lands of Origin: Media Consumption and Changing Narratives of Cultural Belonging in MaliDorothea Schulz* Demystifying Memories: The Politics of Heritage in Today's GuineaRamon Sarro* Palimpsest Memoryscapes: Materializing and Mediating War and Peace in Sierra Leone, Paul Basu
Entangled Memories and Parallel Heritages in Mali
In the recent postcolonial history of Mali, cultural heritage has been viewed by the State as a fundamental part of its development strategy. Alpha Oumar Konare argued that architecture was one, if not the, enduring feature of the cultural heritage and national identity of Mali. Cultural heritage in Mali is to be identified with the strengthening of collective memory, it can do so, it seems, only by reducing the latter to various generic aspects …
‘Taking on a Tradition’: African Heritage and the Testimony of Memory
This chapter narrates the historical 'Westernisation' of heritage memory and the challenges made to this discourse as it is confronted by an 'othering' identified as an 'Africanist turn'. It has subversive attitudes toward 'reading' literary texts and a preoccupation with oral and memorising practices. Underpinning the chapter is a need to apprehend more clearly 'heritage memory' as a 'performative moment', a space of uncanny encounter with ances…
Slave Route Projects: Tracing the Heritage of Slavery in Ghana
This chapter focuses on recent efforts of representing the history of slavery in Ghana. It focuses on two heritage projects that play a role in the recent upsurge of interest in the northern slave sites. In the official representations of the history of slavery in northern Ghana, as they are presented by the Ghana Tourist Board via local tour guides, this fact is either downplayed or ignored. The memory work that the project attempts to stimulate…
Palimpsest Memoryscapes: Materializing and Mediating War and Peace in Sierra Leone
This chapter explores tempting to employ an image of conflicting regimes of memory in Sierra Leone, drawing imaginary battle lines between 'indigenous' and 'colonizing' forms; it is this process of mnemonic creolization. It characterizes an opposition between competing regimes of memory, such that traditional mnemonic practices are regarded as being suppressed by modern historicizing ones, and local conceptualizations as being displaced by global…
Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa
Heritage and Memory in Africa: IntroductionMike Rowlands and Ferdinand de JongOther Origins, New Technologies* 'Taking on a Tradition': African Heritage and the Testimony of MemoryBeverley Butler* Slave Route Projects: Tracing the Heritage of Slavery in GhanaKatharina Schramm* Don't Worship, We Remember. Photography, Memory and the Imagination of Heritage in Osogbo, NigeriaPeter ProbstMateriality and Objectification* Entangled Memories and Parall…
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Entangled Memories and Parallel Heritages in Mali
In the recent postcolonial history of Mali, cultural heritage has been viewed by the State as a fundamental part of its development strategy. Alpha Oumar Konare argued that architecture was one, if not the, enduring feature of the cultural heritage and national identity of Mali. Cultural heritage in Mali is to be identified with the strengthening of collective memory, it can do so, it seems, only by reducing the latter to various generic aspects …
‘Taking on a Tradition’: African Heritage and the Testimony of Memory
This chapter narrates the historical 'Westernisation' of heritage memory and the challenges made to this discourse as it is confronted by an 'othering' identified as an 'Africanist turn'. It has subversive attitudes toward 'reading' literary texts and a preoccupation with oral and memorising practices. Underpinning the chapter is a need to apprehend more clearly 'heritage memory' as a 'performative moment', a space of uncanny encounter with ances…
Slave Route Projects: Tracing the Heritage of Slavery in Ghana
This chapter focuses on recent efforts of representing the history of slavery in Ghana. It focuses on two heritage projects that play a role in the recent upsurge of interest in the northern slave sites. In the official representations of the history of slavery in northern Ghana, as they are presented by the Ghana Tourist Board via local tour guides, this fact is either downplayed or ignored. The memory work that the project attempts to stimulate…
Palimpsest Memoryscapes: Materializing and Mediating War and Peace in Sierra Leone
This chapter explores tempting to employ an image of conflicting regimes of memory in Sierra Leone, drawing imaginary battle lines between 'indigenous' and 'colonizing' forms; it is this process of mnemonic creolization. It characterizes an opposition between competing regimes of memory, such that traditional mnemonic practices are regarded as being suppressed by modern historicizing ones, and local conceptualizations as being displaced by global…
Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa
Heritage and Memory in Africa: IntroductionMike Rowlands and Ferdinand de JongOther Origins, New Technologies* 'Taking on a Tradition': African Heritage and the Testimony of MemoryBeverley Butler* Slave Route Projects: Tracing the Heritage of Slavery in GhanaKatharina Schramm* Don't Worship, We Remember. Photography, Memory and the Imagination of Heritage in Osogbo, NigeriaPeter ProbstMateriality and Objectification* Entangled Memories and Parall…