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List of contents
Chapter 1: Khami: an Un-inherited Past
Chapter 2: Placing Khami: The Zimbabwe Culture
Chapter 3: Locating Khami: Culture, Politics and Global Setting
Chapter 4: Nationalising the Past, Internationalising the Present
Chapter 5: Un-inheriting Khami: The Conservation Process
Chapter 6: Un-inheriting Khami: The Socio-cultural Process
Chapter 7: Cultural Negotiation and Creation of a Shared Narrative at Mapungubwe
Chapter 8: Khami: The Lost Landscape
About the author
Ashton Sinamai is a Zimbabwean archaeologist who is currently an Adjunct Research Fellow with the College of Humanities, Arts and Social Sciences at Flinders University, Australia. Previously, he was a Marie Curie Experienced Fellow in the Department of Archaeology at the University of York, UK. Ashton has done some work in eastern and southern Africa and has published widely on heritage studies in these regions. He obtained his PhD in Cultural Heritage and Museum Studies at Deakin University, Australia, and acquired an understanding of other perceptions of heritage among the people who live near Great Zimbabwe, where he grew up and later worked as an archaeologist for National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe. He has also worked as Chief Curator for the Namibian Museum. Ashton is a co-editor of Journal of African Cultural Heritage Studies.
Summary
This book focuses on a forgotten place - the Khami World Heritage site in Zimbabwe. Informed by the author’s experience of living and working in Khami, it is about how places are experienced and remembered through narratives and how a loss of heritage memory may mark the un-inheriting of place.
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Ashton Sinamai’s publication espouses the process by which Khami World Heritage Site lost its intangible values and the effects thereafter on its management and conservation…The book is well written and an interesting read even for non-professionals. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites, Ancila Nhamo
