African heritage isn't ‘Dead': Glitches in organizing knowledge and memories with a focus on the BaTonga in Zimbabwe
Memory institutions collect, arrange, describe and preserve collections for the benefit of the community. While the drive is hinged on the desire to promote accessibility and use of heritage assets, memory institutions' approach to heritage management may condition institutions to be responsibl...
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| description | Memory institutions collect, arrange, describe and preserve collections for the benefit of the community. While the drive is hinged on the desire to promote accessibility and use of heritage assets, memory institutions' approach to heritage management may condition institutions to be responsible for the erasure of some aspects of the heritage. Studies have demonstrated that memory institutions, preserve as well as give access and usage of the collected heritage to the world. It is argued that without strategies of having the heritage consumed, memory institutions risk being redundant. Using some lessons from the BaTonga of Zimbabwe, this chapter outlines the lived and performed heritage in the context of discourses of advocacy, outreach and public programming strategies. It is argued that promotion and funding of memory institutions should be very conscious of the lived heritage which plays a very significant role in defining and promoting the heritage as well as institutions themselves. |
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| spelling | ir-11408-54382023-03-21T15:52:07Z African heritage isn't ‘Dead': Glitches in organizing knowledge and memories with a focus on the BaTonga in Zimbabwe Umali Saidi Midlands State University, Zimbabwe Memory Institutions African Heritage BaTonga Zimbabwe Memory institutions collect, arrange, describe and preserve collections for the benefit of the community. While the drive is hinged on the desire to promote accessibility and use of heritage assets, memory institutions' approach to heritage management may condition institutions to be responsible for the erasure of some aspects of the heritage. Studies have demonstrated that memory institutions, preserve as well as give access and usage of the collected heritage to the world. It is argued that without strategies of having the heritage consumed, memory institutions risk being redundant. Using some lessons from the BaTonga of Zimbabwe, this chapter outlines the lived and performed heritage in the context of discourses of advocacy, outreach and public programming strategies. It is argued that promotion and funding of memory institutions should be very conscious of the lived heritage which plays a very significant role in defining and promoting the heritage as well as institutions themselves. 314 333 2023-03-21T15:52:07Z 2023-03-21T15:52:07Z 2019 book part https://cris.library.msu.ac.zw//handle/11408/5438 10.4018/978-1-5225-7429-3.ch017 en Handbook of Research on Advocacy, Promotion, and Public Programming for Memory Institutions 9781522574293 open IGI Global |
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| title | African heritage isn't ‘Dead': Glitches in organizing knowledge and memories with a focus on the BaTonga in Zimbabwe |
| title_full | African heritage isn't ‘Dead': Glitches in organizing knowledge and memories with a focus on the BaTonga in Zimbabwe |
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| title_full_unstemmed | African heritage isn't ‘Dead': Glitches in organizing knowledge and memories with a focus on the BaTonga in Zimbabwe |
| title_short | African heritage isn't ‘Dead': Glitches in organizing knowledge and memories with a focus on the BaTonga in Zimbabwe |
| title_sort | african heritage isn't ‘dead': glitches in organizing knowledge and memories with a focus on the batonga in zimbabwe |
| topic | Memory Institutions African Heritage BaTonga Zimbabwe |
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