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Managing heritage in Africa : who cares? / Webber Ndoro, Shadreck Chirikure, Janette Deacon.

"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, her...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Taylor & Francis)
Main Authors: Ndoro, Webber (Author), Chirikure, Shadreck (Author), Deacon, Janette (Author)
Format: Electronic eBook
Language:English
Published: Abingdon, Oxon ; New York, NY : Routledge, 2017.
Series:Key issues in cultural heritage.
Subjects:
Cultural property > Protection > Africa.
Africa > Antiquities > Collection and preservation.
Archaeology > Moral and ethical aspects.
Antiquities > Collection and preservation.
Cultural property > Protection.
Africa.
Table of Contents:
  • Chapter 1 Approaches and trends in African heritage management and conservation / SHADRECK CHIRIKURE
  • chapter 2 The challenges of the preservation of archaeological heritage in West Africa / CALEB ADEBAYO FOLORUNSO
  • chapter 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
  • chapter 4 Reorienting heritage management in southern Africa: lessons from traditional custodianship of rock art sites in central Mozambique / ALBINO JOPELA
  • chapter 5 Traditional methods of conservation: a case study of Bafut / RAYMOND NEBA'ANE ASOMBANG
  • chapter 6 Sites of pain and shame as heritage discourses: case study of Shimoni slave cave in south-eastern Kenya / HERMAN KIRIAMA
  • chapter 7 The evolution of cultural and natural management systems with the waterlogged villages in Benin / HERMIONE NONHOME KOUDAKOSSI BOKO
  • chapter 8 Managing sacred places as heritage in West Africa / VICTORIA NDIDI OSUAGWU
  • chapter 9 The sacred groves in the Bight of Benin: a misunderstood heritage? SOUAYIBOU VARISSOU
  • chapter 10 Investigating incorporation of community cultural values in archaeological impact assessment processes: case studies from Botswana / NONOFO NDOBOCHANI
  • chapter 11 Heritage management at a crossroads: the role of contract archaeology in South Africa / NDUKUYAKHE NDLOVU
  • chapter 12 Dammed if you do, damned if you don't: archaeology and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project / PETER MITCHELL
  • chapter 13 Managing the built environment and the urban landscape in South Africa / STEPHEN TOWNSEND
  • chapter 14 Heritage and energy development issues: a controversial complex relationship / AMAL AWAD MUKHTAR NASIR AND WEBBER NDORO
  • chapter 15 Conflict between local communities and heritage managers in the conservation of Historic Cairo / YEHIA HASSAN
  • chapter 16 The triple development dilemma confronting historic urban areas: Mombasa Old Town and Lamu World Heritage Site / KASSIM OMAR
  • chapter 17 Caring matters: the future of managing heritage in Africa / WEBBER NDORO.

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