The Nature of Heritage

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The New South Africa

By Lynn Meskell

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The Nature of Heritage: The New South Africa explores the complex challenges of preserving both natural and cultural heritage within the context of South Africa's past and future. Through archaeological, ethnographic and economic perspectives, it reveals how a nation confronts and reinterprets its difficult history, notably addressing the therapeutic role of heritage in healing racial and ethnic divisions post-apartheid. The book also examines the influence of nature conservation over cultural heritage concerns and discusses the significance of heritage sites, national parks and protected areas in economic and social regeneration.
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The Nature of Heritage

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This book will appeal to students and professionals in archaeology, heritage studies, anthropology, and those interested in post-apartheid South African social and cultural issues.

This text is a groundbreaking work by archaeologist Lynn Meskell that examines the conflicts inherent in natural vs. cultural heritage. The author brings archaeological and ethnographic evidence to bear on a holistic understanding of one nation's self-identification by developing its protected areas and cultural heritage sites.

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The Nature of Heritage: The New South Africa is unique in revealing the conflicts inherent in preserving both natural and cultural heritage, by examining the archaeological, ethnographic and economic evidence of a nation's attempts to master its past and its future.

Provides a classic example of how nations attempt to overcome a negative heritage through past mastering of their histories.

Evaluates the continuing dominance of nature and conservation over concerns for cultural heritage.

Employs ethnographic and archaeological methodologies to reveal how the past is processed into a new national heritage.

Identifies heritage as therapy, exemplified in the strategy for repairing legacies of racial and ethnic difference in post-apartheid South Africa.

Highlights the role of archaeological heritage sites, national parks and protected areas in economic development and social empowerment.

Explores how nature trumps culture and the global implications of the new configurations of heritage.

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South African Archaeological Bulletin praises Lynn Meskell's work as "carefully researched and engagingly written," considering it essential reading for those interested in South African archaeology and heritage.

Book Details

INFORMATION

ISBN: 9780470670712

Publisher: John Wiley and Sons Ltd

Format: Paperback / softback

Date Published: 14 October 2011

Country: United Kingdom

Imprint: Wiley-Blackwell

Audience: Tertiary education

DIMENSIONS

Spine width: 14.0mm

Width: 173.0mm

Height: 246.0mm

Weight: 485g

Pages: 272

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About the Author

Lynn Meskell is Professor of Anthropology at Stanford University (USA) and Honorary Professor at the Rock Art Research Institute in the School of Geography, Archaeology and Environmental Studies, University of the Witwatersrand (South Africa). She is the founder and editor of the Journal of Social Archaeology, and the author and editor of several books, including A Companion to Social Archaeology (Wiley-Blackwell), Archaeologies of Materiality (Wiley-Blackwell), and Cosmopolitan Archaeologies.