Publicomos

Réf.

41872

Type

conference item

Titre

Intangible cultural heritage and the empowerment of local communities: Manyanga (Ntaba Zi Ka Mambo) revisited

Langues

English

Auteurs

Munyaradzi, Manyanga

Date

2003

Pages

6 p.

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 / local communities / conservation / international conventions / UNESCO

Pays mentionnés

Botswana

Monuments et sites

Manyanga (Ntaba Zi Ka Mambo), Botswana

Résumé en anglais

In recent years, cultural heritage has been used as a way of empowering local communities, particularly in situations where they have been denied access or have been alienated from their heritage. Under the guise of the so-called African Renaissance, cultural heritage has been used as a rallying point by local communities in their demands for access to previously denied areas. This has manifested itself in the form of living traditions or the revival of cultural practices on archaeological sites. It is argued in this paper that the developments at Manyanga National Monument (Ntaba zi ka Mambo) in the 1990’s were part of a drive for empowerment, rather than just a clash over the value and management of the site: a challenge for the proposed UNESCO Convention on intangible cultural heritage. While the Convention is undeniably a useful tool in managing such heritage, these challenges are a useful caution, if those who adopt the convention are to effectively implement it.

Document joint

C3-5_-_Munyaradzi.pdf

Licence

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