Heritage formation and the senses in post-apartheid South Africa: aesthetics of power

by Jethro, Duane

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Full title :Heritage formation and the senses in post-apartheid South Africa : aesthetics of power / Duane Jethro.

Summary

In this innovative book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage making. He shows how the senses were important for crafting and successfully deploying new, nation-building heritage projects in South Africa during the post-apartheid period. The book highlights how heritage dynamics are entangled in evocative, changing sensory worlds. Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa features five case studies that correlate with the five main Western senses. Examples include touch and the ruination of a series of art memorials; how vision was mobilised to assert the authority of the state sponsored Freedom Park project in Pretoria; how small memories of apartheid era social life in Cape Town informed contemporary struggles for belonging after forced removal; how taste informed debates about the attempted rebranding of Heritage Day as barbecue day; and how the sound of the vuvuzela, popularised during the FIFA 2010 Football World Cup, helped legitimise its unofficial African and South African heritage status. This book makes a valuable contribution to the field of sensory studies and, with its focus on aesthetics and material culture, is in synch with the broader material turn in the humanities. This is important reading for students and scholars of anthropology, sociology, sensory studies, and transnational studies.

Edition Statements

Publication Date:2020.

Publication Statements

Publisher(s):Bloomsbury Academic
Place of Publication:London
Language:eng
Publication Date:2020.

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Description:1 online resource

Edition Identifiers

ISBN:9781350059801, 1350059803, 9781350059788, 1350059781, 9781003085546, 1003085547
oclc:on1127873661
LC Classification:DT1026
Dewey Decimal:363.6/9

Subjects

Aesthetics Case studies Cultural property Cultural property -- Case studies. -- S… Cultural property -- South Africa Ère post-apartheid -- Afrique du Sud Nation-building Nation-building -- South Africa Post-apartheid era Post-apartheid era -- South Africa Reconstruction d'une nation -- Afrique … Sens et sensations -- Afrique du Sud Senses and sensation Senses and sensation -- South Africa South Africa