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Community-based Heritage in Africa: Unveiling Local Research and Development Initiatives book cover

1st Edition

Community-based Heritage in Africa Unveiling Local Research and Development Initiatives

By Peter R. Schmidt Copyright 2017
288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge

288 Pages
by Routledge
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This volume provides a powerful alternative to the Western paradigms that have governed archaeological inquiry and heritage studies in Africa. Community-based Heritage Research in Africa boldly shifts focus away from top-down community engagements, usually instigated by elite academic and heritage institutions, to examine locally initiated projects.  Schmidt explores how and why local... Read more

Part I: Backdrop to Heritage Meanings
1: Prelude to the Unexpected
2: Setting, Place, and Heritage

Part II: A Biography of a Local Heritage Initiative
3: Disorientation and Recuperation: Relearning Heritage in  Katuruka Village
4: Grassroots Heritage Work in Action
5: Spitting Pearls: Agendas for Community Research and Heritage Performance are Realized
6: Euphoria, Cargo Cult Expectations, and Hard Reality
7: Commentary: Fitting Buhaya into Global Perspectives

Part III: Community Research Findings
8: HIV/AIDS, The Living, and Memory
9: Intangible Heritage: Hope Lost over Erased Ethical Values
10: Commentary: Reflections on Human Rights, Senses of Place, and Heritage
11: Heritage Lost, Heritage Regained
12: Androcentric Perspectives, Subaltern Conundrums, and  Learning from Snakes
13: Njeru, the "White Sheep" and her Snake.                                                              
With Eudes Bambanza and Zuriat Mohamed

Part IV: Reflections on the Katuruka Initiative
14: Progress while Negotiating Potholes
15: Harm by Greed: "Negotiating" Heritage Rights and Land Use
16: The Future of Katuruka: Is there Hope?

Part V: Spreading to other Communities and Concluding Thoughts
17: Heritage Ephemeral, Heritage Hidden, and Heritage Revealed at Kanazi Palace
18: Kanazi Palace, King Kahigi II, and Ethical Conundrums in Community Heritage Work
19: The “Cave of the Dead”: Genocide, Forgotten Heritage, and Education
20: Reflections and Connections

Biography

Peter R. Schmidt is Professor of Anthropology and African Studies at the University of Florida, USA, as well as Extraordinary Professor of Anthropology and Archaeology at the University of Pretoria, South Africa.

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