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Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony
Daniel Herwitz
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Hardback. Num Pages: 232 pages, 24 illus. BIC Classification: HPN; JFSL4; JPA. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 173 x 237 x 20. Weight in Grams: 456. 232 pages, ill. Cateogry: (P) Professional & Vocational. BIC Classification: HPN; JFSL4; JPA. Dimension: 173 x 237 x 20. Weight: 456.
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, like its European predecessor of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deploys heritage institutions and instruments, museums, courts of law, and universities to empower itself with unity, longevity, exaltation of value, origin, and destiny. Bringing the eye of a philosopher, the pen of an essayist, and the experience of a public intellectual to the study of ... Read more
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, like its European predecessor of the eighteenth and nineteenth centuries, deploys heritage institutions and instruments, museums, courts of law, and universities to empower itself with unity, longevity, exaltation of value, origin, and destiny. Bringing the eye of a philosopher, the pen of an essayist, and the experience of a public intellectual to the study of ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2012
Publisher
Columbia University Press
Number of pages
232
Condition
New
Number of Pages
232
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9780231160186
SKU
V9780231160186
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About Daniel Herwitz
Daniel Herwitz directs the Institute for the Humanities at the University of Michigan and holds an honorary position at the University of Cape Town. His most recent book is The Star as Icon: Celebrity in the Age of Mass Consumption, which was named a Choice Outstanding Academic Title. He is also the author, with Lydia Goehr, of The Don Giovanni ... Read more
Reviews for Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony
This book is a bold, sweeping and imaginative argument on the centrality of 'heritage games' in the contemporary world... Each essay is brimming with insights, interesting facts and observations making them highly readable in their own right, or together.
Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University A work of ebullient imagination, zest, and wit, Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony ... Read more
Thomas Blom Hansen, Stanford University A work of ebullient imagination, zest, and wit, Heritage, Culture, and Politics in the Postcolony ... Read more