African Indigenous Heritage in Colonial and Postcolonial Museums

Mugabowagahunde, Maurice

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“…Technologies might exacerbate this effect by introducing new electronic devices that contribute to blurring the boundaries between heritage and commodity; it is in this context where questions of cultural property and copyrights have been raised as part of the larger digitalisation discourse. 81 Digitalisation also comes with challenges in terms of accessing new digital sources of heritage and the creation thereof: cultural bearer communities may be excluded from decisions on how ICH elements are represented in public forums, and hence how these are perceived and interpreted. By the same token, digitalisation has become an essential means of mediation, providing opportunities to access more contextual information around ICH objects, how they evolve, how they are bought and sold.…”

Section: Intangible Cultural Heritage In a Web Of Glocalisation Globmentioning

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Intangible cultural heritage, inequalities and participation: who decides on heritage?

Eichler

2020

The International Journal of Human Rights

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Ever since the adoption of the Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage (CSICH) in 2003, indigenous and minority cultural rights have enjoyed increasing recognition. At the same time, they have been exposed to public discourses and homogenising language that might detrimentally affect their right to access and participation in the creation of intangible cultural heritage (ICH) and ultimately cultural life. As a consequence, respective inequalities in ICH enjoyment have come to the fore, being further reinforced by strategies of tourism, commodification and to some extent digitalisation. Calling for adaptability, submission and homogenisation, such external pressures have jeopardised right holders' voices in self-defining their very identities in new institutionalised ICH contexts. The novel 'human dimension' of cultural heritage inherent to ICH is explored by means of two cases, that is Andean Carnival celebrations in Oruro (Bolivia) and Barranquilla (Colombia). In the cases at hand, it is critically examined how marginalised peoples have found their way into a supposedly equalising regime facilitating celebrations of cultural life, religious identities and spiritual practice in decolonising contexts. In the following, these spaces for inclusion are assessed based on indigenous peoples', Afro-descendants' and similarly marginalised groups' eventual share in negotiating their very identities.

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Section: Intangible Cultural Heritage In a Web Of Glocalisation Globmentioning

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Intangible cultural heritage, inequalities and participation: who decides on heritage?

Eichler

2020

The International Journal of Human Rights

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“…Long-registered in indigenous claims over Western museum collections (Mugabowagahunde, 2015), this violence is harder to register in contexts like…”

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“…They involve a violence effected through the deployment of the cotton glove, archival box and protective scrunch of acid-free tissue paper. Long-registered in indigenous claims over Western museum collections (Mugabowagahunde, 2015), this violence is harder to register in contexts like Northern Iraq where the most visible and vocal engagements with the artefacts of heritage are those apparently intent on reducing them to dust. But the practice of preservation is an iconoclasm nonetheless: it is a nonphysical destruction through conservational estrangement.…”

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The touch of iconoclasm

Pitcher

2018

European Journal of Cultural Studies

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This article reflects on some depicted intentional acts of iconoclasm undertaken by Isis in Northern Iraq and viewed as online videos. It attempts to consider what makes these moving images compelling to audiences who share an orientation to the protection and preservation of ancient artefacts. In doing so, it prompts a reflection on their circulation as part of stories that get told about cultural heritage, and particularly the simple civilizational oppositions that get set up between ‘Western’ and ‘Islamic’ culture. Centring on the significance of the sensation of touch to practices of cultural inscription, it suggests that the Northern Iraq videos animate forms of synaesthesic material engagement that are denied by the modernist technologies of museum culture.

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Cultural Heritage—Competing Conceptions and Significance

Browne¹,

Raff²

2022

International Law of Underwater Cultural Heritage

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African Indigenous Heritage in Colonial and Postcolonial Museums

Cited by 4 publications

References 8 publications

Intangible cultural heritage, inequalities and participation: who decides on heritage?

Intangible cultural heritage, inequalities and participation: who decides on heritage?

The touch of iconoclasm

Cultural Heritage—Competing Conceptions and Significance

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