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An anthropology of common ground : awkward encounters in heritage work / Nathalia Brichet.

"Paying attention to details and 'small stories' as that which make worlds (heritage projects as well as ethnography), the book proposes a kind of postcolonial scholarship. Rather than uncovering or building up one story about the Danish-Ghanaian past, the work insists on providing &#...

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Online Access: Full Text (via Project MUSE)
Main Author: Brichet, Nathalia (Author)
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Manchester : Mattering Press, [2018]
Edition:First edition.
Subjects:
Cultural property > Protection > Ghana > International cooperation.
Historic preservation > Ghana > International cooperation.
Frederiksgave Plantation and Common Heritage Site (Sesemi, Ghana)
Ghana > Antiquities > Conservation and restoration.
Ghana > History > Danish Settlements, 1659-1850.
Denmark > Relations > Ghana.
Ghana > Relations > Denmark.
Postcolonialism.
International relations.
Cultural property > Protection > International cooperation.
Antiquities > Collection and preservation.
Ghana.
Denmark.
History.
Ethnographies.
Table of Contents:
  • Introduction: Collaboration and the Fruits of Awkward Relations
  • 1. Crafting the Field of Common Heritage
  • 2. Sharing Heritage Through Friction
  • 3. Altering Heritage Through Mimesis
  • 4. Valuing Heritage Through the Fetish
  • 5. Qualifying Heritage Through Postcolonial Moments.

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