Managing Heritage in Africa - Who Cares? (Hardcover, 3rd Edition)

Managing Heritage in Africa provides a wide-ranging, up-to-date synthesis of heritage management practice in Africa, covering a broad spectrum of heritage issues such as archaeology, living traditions, sacred sites, heritage of pain (slavery), international conventions cultural landscapes, heritage in conflict areas and heritage versus development. Dealing with both intangible and tangible heritage, Managing Heritage in Africa gives an informative insight into some of the major issues and approaches to contemporary heritage management in Africa and situates the challenges facing heritage practitioners.

Table of Contents

Table of Contents

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Contributors

Series General Co-Editors’ Foreword

1. Approaches and trends in African heritage management and conservation.Shadreck Chirikure, Webber Ndoro & Janette Deacon

2. The challenges of the preservation of archaeological heritage in West Africa.Adebayo Folorunso

3. The African response to the concept and implementation of the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting Illicit Import and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property. Dawson Munjeri

4. Reorienting heritage management in southern Africa: lessons from traditional custodianship of rock art sites in central Mozambique. Albino Jopela

5. Traditional methods of conservation: a case study of Bafut. Raymond Neba’ane Asombang

6. Sites of Pain and Shame as heritage discourses: Case of Shimoni Slave caves in south-eastern KenyaHerman Kiriama

7. The evolution of cultural and natural management systems with the waterlogged villages in BeninHermione Nonhome Koudakossi Boko

8. Managing Sacred Sites as Heritage in West Africa Victoria Ndidi Osuagwu

9. The sacred groves in the Bight of Benin: a misunderstood heritage.Souayibou Varissou

10. Investigating incorporation of community cultural values in archaeological impact assessment processes: case studies from Botswana.Nonofho Ndobochani & Gilbert Pwiti

11. Heritage management at cross-roads: the role of contract archaeology in South Africa Ndukuyakhe Ndlovu

12. Dammed if you do, damned if you don't: archaeology and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project Peter Mitchell

13. Managing the built environment and the urban landscape in South AfricaStephen Townsend

14. Heritage and energy development issues, a controversial compl

General

Imprint:	Taylor & Francis
Country of origin:	United Kingdom
Series:	Key Issues in Cultural Heritage
Release date:	August 2017
First published:	2018
Authors:	Janette Deacon • Shadreck Chirikure • Webber Ndoro
Editors:	Webber Ndoro • Shadreck Chirikure • Janette Deacon
Dimensions:	234 x 156 x 25mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover
Pages:	272
Edition:	3rd Edition
ISBN-13:	978-1-138-20281-8
Categories:	Books > Reference & Interdisciplinary > Museums & museology Books > Humanities > Archaeology > General Books > Humanities > History > World history > General Books > Humanities > History > African history > General Books > Social sciences > Sociology, social studies > Anthropology > General Books > History > African history > General Books > History > World history > General Promotions
LSN:	1-138-20281-9
Barcode:	9781138202818

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