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Réf.

41846

Type

conference item

Titre

Inventer une nouvelle illusion : le cas renommé des Southern Ndebele

Langues

French

Langues des résumés

English

Auteurs

Fontana Antonelli, Giovanni

Lieu de publication

Paris

Pays de publication

France

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS

Date

2005

Pages

7 p.

Addenda

Handwritten page numbers 195-201 on the printed collected papers.

Titre de conférence

14th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Place, memory, meaning: preserving intangible values in monuments and sites’

Lieu de conférence

Victoria Falls, Zimbabwe

Date de conférence

27 – 31 oct 2003

Mots-clés

intangible heritage / indigenous peoples / oral tradition / globalization / modernization / cultural identity / social changes / adaptation

Pays mentionnés

South Africa

Résumé en anglais

This paper deals with the process of change, transformation and modernisation of the Southern Ndebele culture, from the first struggle against the apartheid state to the affirmation as a landmark in modern art. This contribution seeks to investigate the roots of the transition from a local tradition to a contemporary language and understand the reasons for its world-wide success: the creation and consolidation of the Southern Ndebele cultural identity is the key concept to reaffirm the intangible values of the community and disseminate a fresh new idea of “African Renaissance”. The paper follows the historical and typological path of the Southern Ndebele art and architecture, from the origin to the present, through comparative analysis with neighbouring groups (i.e. Basotho or Tswana) and investigates on the impact of irreversible change on their social structure through the ways of assimilation and reuse of external languages. The question is how the colonisation and globalisation process had influenced the material and immaterial culture of a community and how a diverse perception has been determined to enhance the incessant dialogue between human beings and nature that we call history.

Document joint

B2_-_2_-_Fontana_Antonelli.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

Document source

26567 - English #26567

N° d'entrée et cote

14852