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Global heritage assemblages : development and modern architecture in Africa
- Author / Creator
- Available as
- Online
Details
- Creator
- Christoph Rausch
- Format
- Books
- Language
- English
- Publication
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- 1st ed
- New York, N.Y. ; London : Routledge, 2017
- Physical Details
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- 1 online resource (238 pages)
- ISBNs
- 9781315414973, 131541497X, 9781315414959, 1315414953, 9781315414966, 1315414961, 1138219479
- OCLC
- ocn967739211
- Includes bibliographical references and index.
- 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