Routledge Handbook of Critical African Heritage Studies
Chirikure, Shadreck
Routledge Handbook of Critical African Heritage Studies - London Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2024 - 1 online resource
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This handbook is a foundational reference point for critical heritage research about Africa and its diaspora. Foregrounding the diversity of knowledge systems needed to examine heritage issues in such a diverse continent, the contributors to this volume: argue for an understanding heritage that is at once both natural and cultural, tangible and intangible, political and dissonant, going beyond the physical and objective to include subjective narratives, performances, rituals, memories and emotions examine the pre-coloniality, coloniality, post-coloniality, and decoloniality of current African heritage discourses and their consequences analyse how heritage legislation derived from colonial law is compatible or otherwise with how heritage is perceived, identified and remembered in African communities discuss questions of repatriation, restitution and reparations in relation to the return of artefacts from Western countries illuminate the importance of 'difficult heritage' within Africa and its diaspora consider the role of heritage for development in Africa Making a crucial contribution to our understanding of African conceptions and practices of heritage, this book is an important read for scholars of African Studies, heritage and museum studies, archaeology, anthropology and history.
Open licence
eng
9780367434021 9781003025832 9781032784601
10.4324/9781003025832 doi
African history
Ethnic studies
History and Archaeology
History
Social groups, communities and identities
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
African Diaspora African Heritage Studies Critical Approaches Cultural Heritage Decoloniality Heritage and Museum Studies
Routledge Handbook of Critical African Heritage Studies - London Taylor & Francis Routledge [Imprint] 2024 - 1 online resource
Free-to-read
This handbook is a foundational reference point for critical heritage research about Africa and its diaspora. Foregrounding the diversity of knowledge systems needed to examine heritage issues in such a diverse continent, the contributors to this volume: argue for an understanding heritage that is at once both natural and cultural, tangible and intangible, political and dissonant, going beyond the physical and objective to include subjective narratives, performances, rituals, memories and emotions examine the pre-coloniality, coloniality, post-coloniality, and decoloniality of current African heritage discourses and their consequences analyse how heritage legislation derived from colonial law is compatible or otherwise with how heritage is perceived, identified and remembered in African communities discuss questions of repatriation, restitution and reparations in relation to the return of artefacts from Western countries illuminate the importance of 'difficult heritage' within Africa and its diaspora consider the role of heritage for development in Africa Making a crucial contribution to our understanding of African conceptions and practices of heritage, this book is an important read for scholars of African Studies, heritage and museum studies, archaeology, anthropology and history.
Open licence
eng
9780367434021 9781003025832 9781032784601
10.4324/9781003025832 doi
African history
Ethnic studies
History and Archaeology
History
Social groups, communities and identities
Society and culture: general
Society and Social Sciences
African Diaspora African Heritage Studies Critical Approaches Cultural Heritage Decoloniality Heritage and Museum Studies
