| Description |
1 online resource (xviii, 212 pages) : illustrations |
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The heritage of heritage -- Recovering and inventing the past : M.F. Husain's live action heritage -- Sustaining heritage off the road to Kruger Park -- Monument, ruin, and redress in South African heritage -- Renaissance and pandemic -- Tocqueville on the bridge to nowhere |
| Summary |
The postcolonial state, like its European predecessor of the 18th and 19th centuries, deploys heritage institutions and instruments, museums, courts of law, and universities to empower itself with unity, longevity, exaltation of value, origin, and destiny. This book reveals the febrile pitch at which heritage is staked by examining situations in South Africa, India, and the US, to capture its perfect embodiment of the struggle to seize culture and society at moments of profound social change |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
English |
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Print version record |
| Subject |
Social sciences and history.
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National characteristics, East Indian.
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National characteristics, South African.
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National characteristics, American.
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Postcolonialism -- India
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Postcolonialism -- South Africa
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Postcolonialism -- United States
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HISTORY -- Historiography.
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HISTORY -- Social History.
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Historiography -- Social aspects
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National characteristics, American
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National characteristics, East Indian
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National characteristics, South African
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Postcolonialism
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Social sciences and history
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India -- Historiography -- Social aspects
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South Africa -- Historiography -- Social aspects
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United States -- Historiography -- Social aspects
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India
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South Africa
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United States
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9780231530729 |
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0231530722 |
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