Afrocentric turn in African Heritage Studies
Subtitle: epistemology of alterity
By: Luvuyo M. Dondolo and Olusegun Morakinyo
Publisher: African Century Editions (ACE) Press
Published: 2020
Place of publication: Cape Town, South Africa
Language: eng
Number of pages: 84
ISBN-13: 9780639817668
Subjects: Historic sites; Cultural property; Protection; Museum conservation methods; Post-apartheid era; Afrocentrism; University of the Western Cape. History Department; African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies (South Africa)
Description: "The contention of this text through a critique of the theoretical and pedagogical orientation of the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies (APMHS) compared to dominant strands of technical training as definitive of AHS is that although the APMHS is progressive by being a practice of critical heritage studies, compared to these other strands, it is however not emancipatory and humanizing of the being of Africans, because it is not decolonized given its Africanity orientation and Afrikological methodological deficits ..."--
Notes: Includes bibliographical references.
Table of contents: title: Introduction; title: Theoretical considerations; title: Re-imagining the Department of History at UWC; title: Unmasking coloniality: reflections on the early stages of the postgraduate diploma in museum and heritage programme; title: Intangible heritage in APMHS; title: History of African heritage studies; title: Origin of AHS; title: Development of AHS; title: Preventive Conservation in Museum of Africa (PREMA) as AHS; title: Africa 2009 and UNESCO global strategy as AHS; title: APMHS: before, beyond and limitations of critical heritage studies; title: The Afrocentric turn as decoloniality of AHS; title: Diop's AHS.