Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa (University College London Institute of Archaeology Publications)

by Ferdinandde Jong (Editor)

• New

  Paperback
  2009

  $45.54

  Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. This book contains series of cases from West Africa. It shows how memory and heritage play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts. It features settings that range from televised ritual performances in Mali to monument conservation in Djenne and slavery memorials in Ghana.

• New

  Hardcover
  2008

  $166.94

  Shows how memory and heritage play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts. This volume notes that questions of memory, heritage, identity and conservation are interwoven at the local, ethnic, national and global level and cannot be easily disentangled.