"Volume based on papers presented at the symposium 'Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa,' held at the Dumbarton Oaks Research Library and Collection, Washington, D.C., on May 10-11, 2013"--Title page verso. Includes bibliographical references (pages 433-441) and index.
Contents:
From Table Mountain to Hoerikwaggo : re-imagining Africa's "first landscape" / Jeremy Foster. Design on the world : blackness and the exclusion of Sub-Saharan Africa from the "global" history of garden and landscape design / Grey Gundaker -- Cultural landscapes in Mali : historical antecedents and future trajectories / Charlotte Joy -- Great Zimbabwe as power-scape : how the past locates itself in contemporary Southern Africa / Innocent Pikirayi -- Landscape and architecture in the central highlands of Madagascar / Randall Bird -- Stories of stone : the transformation and reinvention of Swahili coast pillar tombs / Sandy Prita Meier -- Gardener kings : the formality of politics and palace forests among the Gbe kingdoms of West Africa / Neil L. Norman -- Places and paths of memory : archaeologies of East African pastoralist landscapes / Paul J. Lane -- Cultural capital and structural power in African landscapes : the social dynamics of sacred groves / Michael Sheridan -- Good bush, bad bush : representing our natures in historical southern Nigerian landscapes / Ikem Stanley Okoye -- A multiplex landscape : explorations of place and practice in Osun Grove, Nigeria / Akinwumi Ogundiran -- Rain, power, sovereignty, and the materiality of signs in southern Zimbabwe / Joost Fontein -- "Nature's regions" : the mobilization of cultural landscapes for conservation / Maano Ramutsindela -- From Table Mountain to Hoerikwaggo : re-imagining Africa's "first landscape" / Jeremy Foster.
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