Duane Jethro

Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Aesthetics of Power

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Produktbeschreibung

In this book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage formation. He shows how the senses were important for crafting and successfully deploying new, nation-building heritage projects in South Africa during the postapartheid period.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 216
• Erscheinungstermin: 14. November 2019
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 236mm x 155mm x 15mm
• Gewicht: 476g
• ISBN-13: 9781350059771
• ISBN-10: 1350059773
• Artikelnr.: 53603990

Autorenporträt

Duane Jethro is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage, Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

Inhaltsangabe

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Freedom Park: Visualising
the Post-Apartheid Nation 2. Touching Memorials: Ruination, Public Feeling
and the Sunday Times Heritage Project 3. Fragrances and Forced Removal:
Memory, Smell and Urban Displacement in Cape Town 4. Vuvuzela Magic: Sound,
Football and Plastic Post-Apartheid Heritage 5. Braai Nation: Taste,
Consumption and South African Commemorative Days Conclusion

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List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Freedom Park: Visualising the Post-Apartheid Nation 2. Touching Memorials: Ruination, Public Feeling and the Sunday Times Heritage Project 3. Fragrances and Forced Removal: Memory, Smell and Urban Displacement in Cape Town 4. Vuvuzela Magic: Sound, Football and Plastic Post-Apartheid Heritage 5. Braai Nation: Taste, Consumption and South African Commemorative Days Conclusion

Rezensionen

"Taking the senses as point of departure in analyzing 21st-century heritage politics in South-Africa, Duane Jethro has set out an admirably persuasive study. Grounded in anthropology, art history, material culture and memory studies, Jethro's sensuous case-studies intertwine the lingering presence of apartheid with today's nationalism, popular culture, the market and the involvement of diverse, engaged publics. The author's innovative approach reaches well beyond a merely scholarly interest in South-Africa." - Irene Stengs, Meertens Institute, the Netherlands

"Concentrating on Freedom Park, the Sunday Times Heritage Project, the Vuvuzela and the politics of commemorative days, this is a timely study of heritage formation in South Africa that emphasises senses and sensibilities, the politics of authentication and an 'aesthetics of persuasion'. It adds substantially to the field of heritage in South Africa, and also draws attention to the significance experience, embodiment and smell for understanding heritage." - Ciraj Rassool, University of the Western Cape, South Africa