Archives, Objects, Places and Landscapes: Multidisciplinary approaches to Decolonised Zimbabwean pastsMunyaradzi Manyanga, Shadreck Chirikure Dissatisfaction has matured in Africa and elsewhere around the fact that often, the dominant frameworks for interpreting the continents past are not rooted on the continents value system and philosophy. This creates knowledge that does not make sense especially to local communities. The big question therefore is can Africans develop theories that can contribute towards the interpretation of the African past, using their own experiences? Framed within a concept revision substrate, the collection of papers in this thought provoking volume argues for concept revision as a step towards decolonizing knowledge in the post-colony. The various papers powerfully expose that cleansed knowledge is not only locally relevant: it is also locally accessible and globally understandable. |
Contents
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Chapter 3 The Stone Age sequence of the MurewaMutoko area northern Zimbabwe | 55 |
Chapter 4 Functional analysis of Middle Stone Age lithic material from Redcliff Cave central Zimbabwe | 83 |
the giraffe in the rock art of Jahunda | 103 |
a reappraisal | 119 |
Ndongo a Zimbabwe culture site in the middle Save valley | 137 |
archaeometallurgy and regional interactions in Southern Africa | 169 |
a changing paradigm | 277 |
innovation improvisation and ambiguity in the organisation of African iron metallurgy | 295 |
towards an holistic approach in the management of collections in Zimbabwe Museums | 319 |
the case of Zimbabwe Military Museum | 337 |
debating the accessibility of Zimbabwe national museums by people with disabilities | 355 |
authenticity and the conservation of drystone walls at Naletale National Monument Zimbabwe | 379 |
understanding narratives in sustaining living cultural landscapes in Zimbabwe and Australia | 399 |
community involvement at Ntabazikamambo Manyanga National Monument in recent times | 421 |
towards an historical archaeology of the Gaza Nguni in eastern Zimbabwe | 197 |
a look at nineteenthcentury grain bins in Southern Zimbabwe | 223 |
a ceramic ethnoarchaeological study of ritual vessels among the Saunyama of northeastern Zimbabwe | 241 |
a critique of the presentation and management of southern Africas liberation heritage | 439 |
Back cover | 469 |
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