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Unravelling History and Cultural Heritage in Botswana

Parsons, Neil

Journal of southern African studies, 2006-12, Vol.32 (4), p.667-682 [Periódico revisado por pares]

United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Group

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Título:
Unravelling History and Cultural Heritage in Botswana
Autor: Parsons, Neil
Assuntos: Africa ; African culture ; African history ; African studies ; Alliances ; Bantu languages ; Botswana ; Cultural background ; Cultural history ; Cultural institutions ; Cultural property ; Cultural Values ; Culture ; Curricula ; Curriculum ; Dance festivals ; Education ; Educational objectives ; English ; Federalism ; Festivals ; Historical text analysis ; Historicising Heritage ; History ; History instruction ; Ideologies ; Ideology ; Independence ; Language history ; Language textbooks ; Legends ; Multiethnic countries ; Myth ; Myths ; Narratives ; National history ; Oral history ; Preservation of cultural heritage ; Scholarship ; Schools ; Social history ; Sociology and Anthropology ; Textbooks ; Traditional dance ; Traditions ; Tribal chiefs ; Vocational education
É parte de: Journal of southern African studies, 2006-12, Vol.32 (4), p.667-682
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Descrição: Cultural heritage is today contested between historical scholarship based in educational institutions and popular and commercial presentations of the past emphasising myths and legends. A revival of interest in heritage in Botswana over the past few generations has been counterbalanced by a decline of interest in the study of history in schools and the university. If one looks back more than a century, however, the study of history and the presentation of heritage in myths and legends were almost indistinguishable. History textbooks published in Setswana in 1913 and 1940, and in English in 1952, presented parallel tribal traditions in a manner suitable for multi-tribal federalism. Professional research into and publication of national history, in English, supporting unitary state ideology, only came after independence with the opening of a university in which History was at first regarded as a key subject. Since then, History has been deposed within the curriculum by the march towards job-specific vocational education and by new forms of heritage presentation. Recent assertion of sub-national ethnicities, in alliance with local tourist and entertainment interests, challenges cultural and historical narratives written in support of the post-independence unitary state.
Editor: United Kingdom: Taylor & Francis Group
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