Patterns and shifts in cultural heritage in KwaZulu-Natal : selected case studies, 1977-1999.
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2001
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Abstract
An analysis of why cultural heritage sites are created, preserved, and developed is what
concerns the pages of this study. It identifies patterns and shifts in cultural heritage
preservation in the period between 1977 and 1999 in KwaZulu-Natal, and analyses the
motivations for the preservation of cultural heritage. Using specific case studies, I argue that
in KwaZulu-Natal political necessities and ideas of economic development largely motivated
cultural heritage preservation. I also examine the (dis)connection between academic historians
and cultural heritage preservation. I indicate that their (dis)connection with cultural heritage
preservation, especially its motivations, was a complex one. I argue that in complex ways
some academic historians were drawn into the tendencies that were characteristic of cultural
heritage presentations of history in KwaZulu-Natal during this period.
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Thesis (M.A.)-University of Natal, Pietermaritzburg, 2001.
Keywords
Historic preservation--KwaZulu-Natal., Cultural property--Protection--KwaZulu-Natal., Theses--History.