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Memory and Cultural Landscape at the Khami World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe - An Un-inherited Past (Paperback)
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Memory and Cultural Landscape at the Khami World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe - An Un-inherited Past (Paperback)
Series: Archaeology and Indigenous Peoples
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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 premise is that the history of the
modern Zimbabwe nation, in terms of what is officially remembered
and celebrated, inevitably determines how that past is managed. It
is about how places are experienced and remembered through
narratives and how the loss of this heritage memory may mark the
un-inheriting of place. Memory and Cultural Landscape at the Khami
World Heritage Site, Zimbabwe is informed by the author's
experience of living near and working at Great Zimbabwe and Khami
as an archaeologist, and uses archives and traditional narratives
to build a biography for this lost cultural landscape. Whereas
Great Zimbabwe is a resource for the state's contentious narrative
of unity, and a tool for cultural activism among communities whose
cultural rights are denied through the nationalisation and
globalisation heritage, at Khami, which has lost its historical
gravity, there is only silence. Researchers and students of
cultural heritage will find this book a much-needed case study on
heritage, identity, community and landscape from an African
perspective.
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