Community-based heritage in Africa : unveiling local research and development initiatives / Peter R. Schmidt.
"This volume provides a powerful alternative to the Western paradigms that have governed archaeological inquiry and heritage studies in Africa. Community-based Heritage Research in Africa boldly shifts focus away from top-down community engagements, usually instigated by elite academic and heri...
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Table of Contents:
- Part I: Backdrop to heritage meanings
- Prelude to the unexpected
- Setting, place, and heritage
- Part II: A biography of a local heritage initiative
- Disorientation and recuperation: relearning heritage in Katuruka Village
- Grassroots heritage work in action
- Spitting pearls: agendas for community research and heritage performance are realized
- Euphoria, cargo cult expectations, and hard reality
- Commentary: fitting Buhaya into global perspectives
- Part III: Community research findings
- HIV/AIDS, the living, and memory
- Intangible heritage: hope lost over erased ethical values
- Commentary: reflections on human rights, senses of place, and heritage
- Heritage lost, heritage regained
- Androcentric perspectives, subaltern conundrums, and learning from snakes
- Njeru, the "white sheep" and her snake
- With Eudes Bambanza and Zuriat Mohamed
- Part IV: Reflections on the Katuruka initiative
- Progress while negotiating potholes
- Harm by greed: "negotiating" heritage rights and land use
- The future of Katuruka: is there hope?
- Part V: Spreading to other communities and concluding thoughts
- Heritage ephemeral, heritage hidden, and heritage revealed at Kanazi Palace
- Kanazi Palace, King Kahigi II, and ethical conundrums in community heritage work
- The "Cave of the dead": genocide, forgotten heritage, and education
- Reflections and connections.