ABSTRACT
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, heritage in conflict areas and heritage versus development. Dealing with both intangible and tangible heritage, Managing Heritage in Africa gives an informative insight into some of the major issues and approaches to contemporary heritage management in Africa and situates the challenges facing heritage practitioners.
TABLE OF CONTENTS
chapter 4|17 pages
Reorienting heritage management in southern Africa
Lessons from traditional custodianship of rock art sites in central Mozambique
chapter 6|17 pages
Sites of pain and shame as heritage discourses
Case study of Shimoni slave cave in south-eastern Kenya
chapter 10|12 pages
Investigating incorporation of community cultural values in archaeological impact assessment processes
Case studies from Botswana
chapter 11|10 pages
Heritage management at a crossroads
The role of contract archaeology in South Africa
chapter 12|16 pages
Dammed if you do, damned if you don’t
Archaeology and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project
chapter 16|16 pages
The triple development dilemma confronting historic urban areas
Mombasa Old Town and Lamu World Heritage Site