Heritage Formation and the Senses in Post-Apartheid South Africa

Aesthetics of Power

Duane Jethro (Autor)

Buch | Softcover

216 Seiten

2021
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-032-08572-2 (ISBN)

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In this book, Duane Jethro creates a framework for understanding the role of the senses in processes of heritage formation. He shows how the senses were important for crafting and successfully deploying new, nation-building heritage projects in South Africa during the postapartheid period. The book also highlights how heritage dynamics are entangled in evocative, changing sensory worlds.Jethro uses five case studies that correlate with the five main Western senses. Examples include touch and the ruination of a series of art memorials; how vision was mobilised to assert the authority of the state-sponsored Freedom Park project in Pretoria; how smell memories of apartheid-era social life in Cape Town informed contemporary struggles for belonging after forced removal; how taste informed debates about the attempted rebranding of Heritage Day as barbecue day; and how the sound of the vuvuzela, popularized during the FIFA 2010 Football World Cup, helped legitimize its unofficial African and South African heritage status.This book makes a valuable contribution to the field of sensory studies and, with its focus on aesthetics and material culture, is in sync with the broader material turn in the humanities.

Duane Jethro is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Centre for Anthropological Research on Museums and Heritage, Humboldt University in Berlin, Germany.

List of Figures Acknowledgements Introduction 1. Freedom Park: Visualising the Post-Apartheid Nation 2. Touching Memorials: Ruination, Public Feeling and the Sunday Times Heritage Project 3. Fragrances and Forced Removal: Memory, Smell and Urban Displacement in Cape Town 4. Vuvuzela Magic: Sound, Football and Plastic Post-Apartheid Heritage 5. Braai Nation: Taste, Consumption and South African Commemorative Days Conclusion

Erscheinungsdatum	01.07.2021
Reihe/Serie	Sensory Studies
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	308 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Ethnologie
	Sozialwissenschaften ► Soziologie
ISBN-10	1-032-08572-X / 103208572X
ISBN-13	978-1-032-08572-2 / 9781032085722
Zustand	Neuware