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Author:

Dondolo, Luvuyo, author.

Title:

Afrocentric turn in African Heritage Studies : epistemology of alterity / Luvuyo M. Dondolo and Olusegun Morakinyo.

Publisher:

African Century Editions (ACE) Press,

Copyright Date:

2020

Description:

vi, 84 pages ; 23 cm

Subject:

University of the Western Cape.--History Department.
African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies (South Africa)
Historic sites--South Africa.
Cultural property--Protection--South Africa.
Museum conservation methods--Africa.
Post-apartheid era--South Africa.
Afrocentrism.
Afrocentrism.
Cultural property--Protection.
Historic sites.
Museum conservation methods.
Post-apartheid era.
Africa.
South Africa.

Other Authors:

Morakinyo, Olusegun, author.

Notes:

Includes bibliographical references.

Contents:

Introduction -- Theoretical considerations -- Re-imagining the Department of History at UWC -- Unmasking coloniality: reflections on the early stages of the postgraduate diploma in museum and heritage programme -- Intangible heritage in APMHS -- History of African heritage studies -- Origin of AHS -- Development of AHS -- Preventive Conservation in Museum of Africa (PREMA) as AHS -- Africa 2009 and UNESCO global strategy as AHS -- APMHS: before, beyond and limitations of critical heritage studies -- The Afrocentric turn as decoloniality of AHS -- Diop's AHS.

Summary:

"The contention of this text through a critique of the theoretical and pedagogical orientation of the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies (APMHS) compared to dominant strands of technical training as definitive of AHS is that although the APMHS is progressive by being a practice of critical heritage studies, compared to these other strands, it is however not emancipatory and humanizing of the being of Africans, because it is not decolonized given its Africanity orientation and Afrikological methodological deficits ..."-- Back cover.

ISBN:

0639817661
9780639817668

OCLC:

(OCoLC)1245492242

Locations:

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)