Managing Heritage In Africa

Cover -- Half Title -- Title Page -- Copyright Page -- Table of Contents -- List of figures -- List of tables -- List of contributors -- Series general co-editors' foreword -- 1 Approaches and trends in African heritage management and conservation -- 2 The challenges of the preservation of archaeological heritage in West Africa -- 3 The African response to the concept and implementation of the 1970 Convention on the Means of Prohibiting Illicit Import and Transfer of Ownership of Cultural Property -- 4 Reorienting heritage management in southern Africa: lessons from traditional custodianship of rock art sites in central Mozambique -- 5 Traditional methods of conservation: a case study of Bafut -- 6 Sites of pain and shame as heritage discourses: case study of Shimoni slave cave in south-eastern Kenya -- 7 The evolution of cultural and natural management systems with the waterlogged villages in Benin -- 8 Managing sacred places as heritage in West Africa -- 9 The sacred groves in the Bight of Benin: a misunderstood heritage? -- 10 Investigating incorporation of community cultural values in archaeological impact assessment processes: case studies from Botswana -- 11 Heritage management at a crossroads: the role of contract archaeology in South Africa -- 12 Dammed if you do, damned if you don't: archaeology and the Lesotho Highlands Water Project -- 13 Managing the built environment and the urban landscape in South Africa -- 14 Heritage and energy development issues: a controversial complex relationship -- 15 Conflict between local communities and heritage managers in the conservation of Historic Cairo -- 16 The triple development dilemma confronting historic urban areas: Mombasa Old Town and Lamu World Heritage Site -- 17 Caring matters: the future of managing heritage in Africa -- Index