Afrocentric turn in African Heritage Studies

epistemology of alterity

Afrocentric turn in African Heritage Studies
Luvuyo M. Dondolo, Olusegun Mo ...
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Afrocentric turn in African Heritage Studies

epistemology of alterity

"The contention of this text through a critique of the theoretical and pedagogical orientation of the African Programme in Museum and Heritage Studies (APMHS) compared to dominant strands of technical training as definitive of AHS is that although the APMHS is progressive by being a practice of critical heritage studies, compared to these other strands, it is however not emancipatory and humanizing of the being of Africans, because it is not decolonized given its Africanity orientation and Afrikological methodological deficits ..."--

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English
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84

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Afrocentric turn in African Heritage Studies: epistemology of alterity
2020, African Century Editions (ACE) Press
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Table of Contents

Introduction
Theoretical considerations
Re-imagining the Department of History at UWC
Unmasking coloniality: reflections on the early stages of the postgraduate diploma in museum and heritage programme
Intangible heritage in APMHS
History of African heritage studies
Origin of AHS
Development of AHS
Preventive Conservation in Museum of Africa (PREMA) as AHS
Africa 2009 and UNESCO global strategy as AHS
APMHS: before, beyond and limitations of critical heritage studies
The Afrocentric turn as decoloniality of AHS
Diop's AHS.

Edition Notes

Includes bibliographical references.

Published in
Cape Town, South Africa

Classifications

Dewey Decimal Class
363.690968
Library of Congress
DT1782.S6 D66 2020

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vi, 84 pages
Number of pages
84

Edition Identifiers

Open Library
OL60709945M
ISBN 10
0639817661
ISBN 13
9780639817668
OCLC/WorldCat
1245492242

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Work ID
OL44444668W

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