Living with Heritage: The Case of Tsodilo World Heritage Site and Neighbouring Localities
By (author) Stella Basinyi
Paperback (Published)
(October 2019)
ISBN: 9781789693041
7.99 x 10.91 inches
Price: $45.00
In stock
In 2008 several heritage sites in Botswana were opened for tourism in addition to the Tsodilo World Heritage Site. Insufficient research was undertaken to understand how local communities and local cultures respond to these ventures. This study presents an overview of community transformation and responses to heritage sites as global
Cultural Heritage Management in most parts of Africa has been concerned and focused on conservation and preservation of cultural and natural heritage and the development of sites for tourism and economic benefit. In this venture, the tangible heritage such as monuments and landscapes become the focus and of primary significance. Therefore, most efforts have failed to grasp the significance and relevance of cultural heritage to the local communities and the existing traditional and cultural attachment to heritage sites beyond the economic gain. Of late, operational guidelines of the WH Conventions have targeted the engagement of communities in the management of their local heritage and shaping visitor experiences. The major challenge is the implementation of these agreements and restoration of cultural pride in local communities. The communities’ interest in heritage areas has been overshadowed by the perceived idea of economic gain and the global agenda for preservation of monuments for future generation as the foremost primary benefit in heritage over cultural rights and entitlement to heritage sites, present day cultural valuation and traditional use. In 2008 several heritage sites in Botswana were opened for tourism in addition to the Tsodilo World Heritage Site. Furthermore, in June 2014 the Okavango Delta covering a vast range of land occupied by cultural communities was also inscribed on the World Heritage List, becoming the second World Heritage Site in the country. However, insufficient research and analysis has been undertaken to understand how local communities and local cultures respond to these ventures. The study is case study based, presenting an overview of community transformation and responses to universalized heritage value and collective global view that characterize heritage status of cultural materials and the interactions of local cultures and traditions with the concepts of heritage and culture in heritage sites as globalised platforms. In this regard, it is evident through this study that the interlocutors are aware of their community boundaries and value in response to a national and global process of ‘valuation’ of the heritage site that is not theirs.
- By (author) Stella Basinyi
Other Titles in this Series
Ceramic manufacturing techniques and cultural traditions in Nubia from the 8th to the 3rd millennium BC
Examples from Sai Island
The Kingdom of Makuria and its Civilization
A Renewed Insight through New Archaeological Discoveries
Similar Books
Music and Colonialism in Fascist Italy
Identity, Propaganda, and Ethnographic Representation
Volume 13
Writing of Women as Cultural Resistance
Deconstructing Memory Legacies in the Afro-Luso-Brazilian Atlantic
Peri-urban life-worlds contested
Everyday experiences, governance, and conflicts at the rural-urban interface of Maputo, Mozambique
Prosperity Gospel Redefined
The Impact of Charismatisation of the Mainline Churches in Tanzania
Volume 5
Reframing Restoration
Rwanda Re-photographed 100 Years Later or the Reconstruction of Landscape Memory
Africam defendere
Byzantinische Fortifikationen in der nordafrikanischen Region Thugga im 6. und 7. Jahrhundert
Bibliographie historique de la RD Congo, du Rwanda et du Burundi sous le régime colonial
(travaux de 1997 à 2024)
Hunters of the Mountain
The Archaeology of Jebel Gharbi, NW Libya, from Final Pleistocene to Early Holocene
Volume 264
Institutional Engineering and Hybrid Power-sharing in Divided Societies
The Cases of Indonesia and Sub-Saharan Africa
The Kingdom of God and the Poor
The Bible Reading of the Economically Underprivileged Christians in Tanzania
Volume 36
Der Maji-Maji-Krieg gegen die deutsche Kolonialherrschaft
Historische Ursprunge nationaler Identitat in Tansania
La nécropole aux amants petrifies. Ruines mégalithiques de Wanar (Région de Kaffrine, Sénégal)
Patrimoine mondial de l’UNESCO
