Meskell The Nature of Heritage

The New South Africa
1. Auflage 2011
ISBN: 978-1-118-10662-4
Verlag: John Wiley & Sons
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: Adobe DRM (»Systemvoraussetzungen)

E-Book, Englisch, 272 Seiten, E-Book

The Nature of Heritage: The New South Africa is unique inrevealing the conflicts inherent in preserving both natural andcultural heritage, by examining the archaeological, ethnographicand economic evidence of a nation's attempts to master its past andits future.
* Provides a classic example of how nations attempt to overcome anegative heritage through past mastering of their histories
* Evaluates the continuing dominance of nature and conservationover concerns for cultural heritage
* Employs ethnographic and archaeological methodologies to revealhow the past is processed into a new national heritage
* Identifies heritage as therapy, exemplified in the strategy forrepairing legacies of racial and ethnic difference inpost-apartheid South Africa
* Highlights the role of archaeological heritage sites, nationalparks and protected areas in economic development and socialempowerment
* Explores how nature trumps culture and the global implicationsof the new configurations of heritage

Autoren/Hrsg.

Meskell, Lynn

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Acknowledgments viii
Abbreviations xiii
Introduction: Past Mastering in the New South Africa 1
1 Naturalizing Cultural Heritage 13
2 Making Heritage Pay in the Rainbow Nation 37
3 It's Mine, It's Yours: Excavating Park Histories 63
4 Why Biodiversity Trumps Culture 98
5 Archaeologies of Failure 125
6 Thulamela: The Donors, the Archaeologist, his Gold, and theFlood 149
7 Kruger is a Gold Rock: Parastatal and Private Visions of theGood 176
Conclusions: Future Perfect 203
References 217
Index 248

Über Autor(innen)

Lynn Meskell is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University (USA) and Honorary Professor at the Rock Art Research Institute in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). She is the founder and editor of the Journal of Social Archaeology, and the author and editor of several books, including A Companion to Social Archaeology (Wiley-Blackwell), Archaeologies of Materiality (Wiley-Blackwell), and Cosmopolitan Archaeologies.