| Description |
1 online resource (xiv, 219 pages) : illustrations |
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Routledge studies on African and Black diaspora ; 6 |
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Routledge studies on African and Black diaspora.
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| Contents |
Slavery heritage and the call to home : diasporan travel to Ghana -- The development of Ghana's heritage tourism -- Culture brokers at the front lines : tour guides at Cape Coast and Elmina castles interpret the slave story -- Visitors' perspectives at Cape Coast castle and Elmina castle: slave trade memoryscapes and ideoscapes -- The performance of public discourse : slavery heritage and One Africa ideoscapes produced by locals -- Foreigner or family? Ghanaian interpretations of the One Africa ideoscape -- Slavery heritage tourism, the African family, and the politics of memory |
| Summary |
Processes of globalization have led to diasporic groups longing for their homelands. One such group includes descendants from African ancestors displaced by the trans-Atlantic slave trade, who may be uncertain about their families'' exact origins. Traveling home often means visiting African sites associated with the slave trade, journeys full of expectations. The remembrance of the slave trade and pilgrimages to these heritage sites bear resemblance to other diasporic travels that center on trauma, identification, and redemption. Based on over two years of ethnographic fieldwork with both dias |
| Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index |
| Notes |
Print version record |
| Subject |
Heritage tourism -- Ghana
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African Americans -- Travel -- Ghana
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Slave trade -- Ghana -- History
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African diaspora.
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Historic buildings -- Ghana
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BUSINESS & ECONOMICS -- Industries -- General.
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African Americans -- Travel
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African diaspora
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Heritage tourism
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Historic buildings
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Slave trade
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Travel
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Ghana -- Description and travel
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Ghana
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| Genre/Form |
History
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| Form |
Electronic book
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| ISBN |
9781317674993 |
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1317674995 |
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9781315771304 |
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1315771306 |
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9781317674979 |
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1317674979 |
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9781317674986 |
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1317674987 |
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9781138060210 |
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1138060216 |
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