Reclaiming Heritage

Reclaiming Heritage
Author: Ferdinand de Jong
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 270
Release: 2016-06-03
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1315421127

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Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programs build monuments to reinforce in nation building efforts—often supported by international organizations and tourist dollars. These efforts often ignore the other, often more troubling memories preserved by local communities—markers of colonial oppression, cultural genocide, and ethnic identity. Yet, as the contributors to this volume note, questions of memory, heritage, identity and conservation are interwoven at the local, ethnic, national and global level and cannot be easily disentangled. In a fascinating series of cases from West Africa, anthropologists, archaeologists and art historians show how memory and heritage play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts. Settings range from televised ritual performances in Mali to monument conservation in Djenne and slavery memorials in Ghana.

Enchanting town of mud

Enchanting town of mud
Author: Charlotte Louise Joy
Publisher:
Total Pages: 616
Release: 2008
Genre: Cultural property
ISBN:

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From Dust to Digital

From Dust to Digital
Author: Maja Kominko
Publisher: Open Book Publishers
Total Pages: 724
Release: 2015-02-16
Genre: Art
ISBN: 1783740620

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Much of world’s documentary heritage rests in vulnerable, little-known and often inaccessible archives. Many of these archives preserve information that may cast new light on historical phenomena and lead to their reinterpretation. But such rich collections are often at risk of being lost before the history they capture is recorded. This volume celebrates the tenth anniversary of the Endangered Archives Programme at the British Library, established to document and publish online formerly inaccessible and neglected archives from across the globe. From Dust to Digital showcases the historical significance of the collections identified, catalogued and digitised through the Programme, bringing together articles on 19 of the 244 projects supported since its inception. These contributions demonstrate the range of materials documented — including rock inscriptions, manuscripts, archival records, newspapers, photographs and sound archives — and the wide geographical scope of the Programme. Many of the documents are published here for the first time, illustrating the potential these collections have to further our understanding of history.

The Masons of Djenné

The Masons of Djenné
Author: Trevor Hugh James Marchand
Publisher: Indiana University Press
Total Pages: 377
Release: 2009
Genre: Architecture
ISBN: 0253313686

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Artful building practices in one of Africa's most beautiful places

The Journey That Never Was

The Journey That Never Was
Author: Jeanne de Ferranti
Publisher: Mereo Books, Mereobook, MereoBooks
Total Pages: 382
Release: 2019-01-25
Genre: Young Adult Nonfiction
ISBN: 1861513704

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To Jeanne de Ferranti’s business-minded parents, it was dismissed as an irresponsible waste of time, and it quickly became ‘the journey that never was’. It didn’t enter the record books, and it was never reported in the press. But to Jeanne and her friend and co-driver Jane, it was rather a big adventure. Back in the early 1960s, as two young women in their twenties, they drove one of the first Minis right round the world, and made it home in one piece. The pair survived endless mechanical breakdowns and a major road accident, enduring hunger, thirst, poverty, bureaucratic red tape and food which ranged from the delightful to the disgusting. They frequently had to fight off the attentions of amorous men, even, at one point, escaping from an attempted rape at knifepoint. But along the way they experienced the kindness of many strangers and saw some of the greatest sights the world has to offer, finally making it safely home two years after they had set out. This, half a century on, is Jeanne’s enthralling account of the round-the world adventure which at the time was simply swept under the carpet.

Who Needs Experts?

Who Needs Experts?
Author: John Schofield
Publisher: Routledge
Total Pages: 287
Release: 2016-02-17
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 1134764847

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Taking the significant Faro Convention on the Value of Cultural Heritage for Society (Council of Europe 2005) as its starting point, this book presents pragmatic views on the rise of the local and the everyday within cultural heritage discourse. Bringing together a range of case studies within a broad geographic context, it examines ways in which authorised or 'expert' views of heritage can be challenged, and recognises how everyone has expertise in familiarity with their local environment. The book concludes that local agenda and everyday places matter, and examines how a realignment of heritage practice to accommodate such things could usefully contribute to more inclusive and socially relevant cultural agenda.

The Enchanted Years of the Stage

The Enchanted Years of the Stage
Author: Felicia Hardison Londré
Publisher: University of Missouri Press
Total Pages: 349
Release: 2007
Genre: Electronic books
ISBN: 0826265855

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"Drawing on the recollections of renowned theater critic David Austin Latchaw and on newspaper archives of the era, Londre chronicles the "first golden age" of Kansas City theater, from the opening of the Coates Opera House in 1870 through the gradual decline of touring productions after World War I"--Provided by publisher.

Heritage Regimes and the State

Heritage Regimes and the State
Author: Bendix, Regina
Publisher: Universitätsverlag Göttingen
Total Pages: 422
Release: 2013-07-02
Genre: Social Science
ISBN: 3863951220

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What happens when UNESCO heritage conventions are ratified by a state? How do UNESCO’s global efforts interact with preexisting local, regional and state efforts to conserve or promote culture? What new institutions emerge to address the mandate? The contributors to this volume focus on the work of translation and interpretation that ensues once heritage conventions are ratified and implemented. With seventeen case studies from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and China, the volume provides comparative evidence for the divergent heritage regimes generated in states that differ in history and political organization. The cases illustrate how UNESCO’s aspiration to honor and celebrate cultural diversity diversifies itself. The very effort to adopt a global heritage regime forces myriad adaptations to particular state and interstate modalities of building and managing heritage.

The Bekaa

The Bekaa
Author: Ray Sproule
Publisher: FriesenPress
Total Pages: 531
Release: 2024-07-15
Genre: Fiction
ISBN: 1038316081

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An adventure tale with murder, intrigue, treasure and romance—amid intimations of a past where Phoenician triremes sailed the Mediterranean Sea—set in 1957 strife-ridden Lebanon. It follows freelance journalist Matthew Thorne from Montreal, Paris, and Beirut to Lebanon’s Bekaa Valley, in pursuit of the murder of an old, mercurial college friend.

The Man in the Moon

The Man in the Moon
Author: Albert Smith
Publisher:
Total Pages: 400
Release:
Genre: English literature
ISBN:

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"A monthly review and bulletin of new measures, new men, new books, new plays, new jokes, and new nonsense; being an act for the amalgamation of the broad gauge of fancy with the narrow gauge of fact into the grand general amusement junction"--Page [4] of covers, no. 1-9.