Global heritage assemblages : development and modern architecture in Africa / / Christoph Rausch

• Record Nr.: UNINA9910792583103321
• Autore: Rausch Christoph
• Pubbl/distr/stampa: New York, N.Y. ; ; London : , : Routledge, , 2017
• ISBN: 1-315-41497-X; 1-315-41495-3; 1-315-41496-1
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (238 pages)
• Collana: Routledge Studies in Culture and Development ; ; 3
• Disciplina: 363.6/9096
• Soggetti: Cultural property - Protection - International cooperation; Cultural property - Protection - Africa; World Heritage areas - Africa; Architecture and anthropology - Africa
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: 1. Global heritage assemblages : toward an anthropology of the contemporary -- 2. Diagnosis : modern architectural heritage as an anthropological problem -- 3. A pathway -- 4. Analysis : global heritage assemblages and modern architecture in Africa -- 5. Modern nostalgia : asserting politics of sovereignty and security in Asmara, Washington and Brussels -- 6. Modern trophy : contesting technologies of authenticity and value in Niamey, Brazzaville, Paris, New York and Venice -- 7. Many words for modern : negotiating ethics of legitimacy and responsibility in Dar es Salaam, Utrecht, Amsterdam and Accra -- 8. Synthesis : contemporary politics, technologies and ethics to the rescue of modernity.