This work responds to the perceptions of post-apartheid heritage practices as producing an
authorised heritage discourse. It contrasts this perception by approaching the making of …

This paper investigates how meanings of liberation heritage have been constructed and
institutionalised in Zimbabwe, and how this has elicited responses from local communities …

Indigenous cultural heritage has regained its value as the centre for tourist attraction. The
challenge is to represent the diverse cultures of indigenous people within the collections …

Cultural heritage management and archaeological research in Zimbabwe have been the
byproducts of colonialism. This dates back to the beginning of the present century and, for …

Abstract The National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ), the nation's
custodian of cultural and natural heritage, has developed a classification system of …

In the Western hemisphere, museums are privileged spaces for producing, canonizing, and
performing cultural memory. Most of these museums were established in the late nineteenth …

Studies since the 1990s have shown how what is exhibited in major museums as the history,
values, beliefs and identities of a community constitutes a representation of the dominant …

The broad theoretical concern of the thesis is to elucidate the relationship between material
culture and social relations, and to counter the analytical separation of cultural form and …

There is a need for museums and their collections to stay relevant and be responsive to
pressing social issues such as indigenous rights. Museums and their collections are …

This paper reviews some of the challenges that face museums in post-apartheid South
Africa. It focuses in particular on the exhibition and interpretation of ethnological collections …