Title: Afrocentric turn in African Heritage Studies
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 ..."--
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)
Places: South Africa, Africa