Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony / / Daniel Herwitz.
The act of remaking one's history into a heritage, a conscientiously crafted narrative placed over the past, is a thriving industry in almost every postcolonial culture. This is surprising, given the tainted role of heritage in so much of colonialism's history. Yet the postcolonial state,...
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| Place / Publishing House: | New York, NY : : Columbia University Press, , [2012] ©2012 |
| Year of Publication: | 2012 |
| Language: | English |
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| Physical Description: | 1 online resource (232 p.) :; 24 illus. |
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Table of Contents:
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Preface
- Acknowledgments
- One. The Heritage of Heritage
- Two. Recovering and Inventing the Past: M. F. Husain's Live Action Heritage
- Three. Sustaining Heritage Off the Road to Kruger Park
- Four. Monument, Ruin, and Redress in South African Heritage
- Five. Renaissance and Pandemic
- Six. Tocqueville on the Bridge to Nowhere
- Epilogue
- Notes
- Index