The Nature of Heritage

The New South Africa

By: Lynn Meskell

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Paperback | 7 October 2011 | Edition Number 1

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<i>The Nature of Heritage: The New South Africa</i> is unique in revealing the conflicts inherent in preserving both natural and cultural heritage, by examining the archaeological, ethnographic and economic evidence of a nation's attempts to master its past and its future. <ul type="disc"> <li>Provides a classic example of how nations attempt to overcome a negative heritage through past mastering of their histories <li>Evaluates the continuing dominance of nature and conservation over concerns for cultural heritage <li>Employs ethnographic and archaeological methodologies to reveal how the past is processed into a new national heritage <li>Identifies heritage as therapy, exemplified in the strategy for repairing legacies of racial and ethnic difference in post-apartheid South Africa <li>Highlights the role of archaeological heritage sites, national parks and protected areas in economic development and social empowerment <li>Explores how nature trumps culture and the global implications of the new configurations of heritage </ul>

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?Lynn Meskell?s book is carefully researched and engagingly written, and is essential reading for anyone interested in archaeology and heritage in South Africa.? (South African Archaeological Bulletin, 1 October 2013)

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