Global Heritage Assemblages : Development and Modern Architecture in Africa.

Global Heritage Assemblages : Development and Modern Architecture in Africa.

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Rausch, Christoph
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: Florence : Taylor and Francis, 2016.
Series:Routledge studies in culture and development.
Subjects:
Cultural property > Protection > International cooperation.
Cultural property > Protection > Africa.
World Heritage areas > Africa.
Architecture and anthropology > Africa.
Architecture and anthropology
Cultural property > Protection
Cultural property > Protection > International cooperation
World Heritage areas
Africa
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Table of Contents:
  • Cover; Title; Copyright; Dedication; Contents; Acknowledgments; Part I; Prologue: A Cult of Heritage; Introduction: World Heritage as Event; 1 Global Heritage Assemblages: Toward an Anthropology of the Contemporary; 2 Diagnosis: Modern Architectural Heritage as an Anthropological Problem; The Crystal Palace; A Tradition against Itself; Problematizing Modernity; 3 A Pathway; Conservation versus Stylistic Restoration; Heritage Preservation versus Architectural Innovation; Modernization versus Heritage Preservation; Toward Heritage Preservation for Modernization.
  • The Institutionalization of Modern Architectural HeritageModern Architectural Heritage in Africa as an Anthropological Problem; 4 Analysis: Global Heritage Assemblages and Modern Architecture in Africa; A Crisis of Coevalness; Site of Inquiry/Mode of Inquiry; Form of Inquiry; Toward a New Form of Inquiry; On the Frontlines; Part II; 5 Modern Nostalgia: Asserting Politics of Sovereignty and Security in Asmara, Washington and Brussels; Politics of Sovereignty and Security; A Global Heritage Assemblage around the Modern Architecture of Asmara; Asserting Sovereignty and Security.
  • Restorative Nostalgia/Reflective NostalgiaConclusion; 6 Modern Trophy: Contesting Technologies of Authenticity and Value in Niamey, Brazzaville, Paris, New York and Venice; Technologies of Authenticity and Value; A Global Heritage Assemblage around the Maisons Tropicales; Contesting Authenticity and Value; Recontextualization/Remediation; Conclusion; 7 Many Words for Modern: Negotiating Ethics of Legitimacy and Responsibility in Dar es Salaam, Utrecht, Amsterdam and Accra; Ethics of Legitimacy and Responsibility; A Global Heritage Assemblage around Modern Architecture in East Africa.
  • Negotiating Legitimacy and ResponsibilityLaboratory/Collaboratory; Conclusion; Part III; 8 Synthesis: Contemporary Politics, Technologies and Ethics to the Rescue of Modernity; Spaces of Experience/Horizons of Expectation; States of Emergence; Demands of the Day; Appendix; Bibliography; Index.

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