1st Edition

Memory and Cultural Landscape at the Khami World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe An Un-inherited Past

By Ashton Sinamai Copyright 2019
212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

212 Pages
by Routledge

This book focuses on a forgotten place—the Khami World Heritage site in Zimbabwe. It examines how professionally ascribed values and conservation priorities affect the cultural landscape when there is a disjuncture between local community and national interests, and explores the epistemic violence that often accompanied colonial heritage management and archaeology in southern Africa. The central... Read more

Chapter 1: Khami: an Un-inherited Past



Chapter 2: Placing Khami: The Zimbabwe Culture



Chapter 3: Locating Khami: Culture, Politics and Global Setting



Chapter 4: Nationalising the Past, Internationalising the Present



Chapter 5: Un-inheriting Khami: The Conservation Process



Chapter 6: Un-inheriting Khami: The Socio-cultural Process



Chapter 7: Cultural Negotiation and Creation of a Shared Narrative at Mapungubwe 



Chapter 8: Khami: The Lost Landscape 



Biography

Ashton Sinamai is a Zimbabwean archaeologist who is currently an Adjunct Research Fellow with the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, Australia. Previously, he was a Marie Curie Experienced Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, UK. Ashton has done some work in eastern and southern Africa and has published widely on heritage studies in these regions. He obtained his PhD in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University, Australia, and acquired an understanding of other perceptions of heritage among the people who live near Great Zimbabwe, where he grew up and later worked as an archaeologist for National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe. He has also worked as Chief Curator for the Namibian Museum. Ashton is a co-editor of Journal of African Cultural Heritage Studies.

Ashton Sinamai’s publication espouses the process by which Khami World Heritage Site lost its intangible values and the effects thereafter on its management and conservation…The book is well written and an interesting read even for non-professionals. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, Ancila Nhamo