Reclaiming heritage
Subtitle: alternative imaginaries of memory in West Africa
By: Ferdinand de Jong, Michael Rowlands, editors.
Contributors: De Jong, Ferdinand.; Rowlands, M. J.
Series: Publications of the Institute of Archaeology, University College London
Publisher: Left Coast Press; Routledge
Published: 2007
Place of publication: Walnut Creek, Calif
Language: eng
Number of pages: 270
ISBN-13: 9781598743074
Subjects: Cultural property -- Africa, West; Cultural property -- Protection -- Africa, West; Memory -- Social aspects -- Africa, West; Africa, West -- History; Africa, West -- Antiquities
Description: 270 pages : 24 cm
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Reconsidering heritage and memory / Mike Rowlands and Ferdinand de Jong; title: 'Taking on a tradition' : African heritage and the testimony of memory / Beverley Butler; title: Slave route projects : tracing the heritage of slavery in Ghana / Katharina Schramm; title: Picturing the past : heritage, photography, and the politics of appearance in a Yoruba City / Peter Probst; title: Entangled memories and parallel heritages in Mali / Michael Rowlands; title: 'Enchanting town of Mud' : Djenné, a world heritage site in Mali / Charlotte Joy; title: A masterpiece of masquerading : contradictions of conservation in intangible heritage / Ferdinand de Jong; title: From a glorious past to the lands of origin : media consumption and changing narratives of cultural belonging in Mali / Dorothea Schulz; title: Demystified memories : the politics of heritage in post-socialist Guinea / Ramon Sarró; title: Palimpsest memoryscapes : materializing and mediating war and peace in Sierra Leone / Paul Basu.