ANTH 9 Lecture Notes - Lecture 17: Direct Historical Approach, Cultural Heritage Management, Architecture
16 Aug 2020
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Indigenous knowledge systems + local knowledge can use it to interpret sites etc. Do this using our own models: interpretation and local knowledge could end up being very different do not conflate the two. 1994: independence in sa brought many hopes, one of them = a new way of studying the past. Rock art on the coat of arms (importance of archaeology in the post-independence period) Iron age and stone age archaeology has not been decolonised the way we examine things has not changed still not accessible on a local level. Do we teach archaeology as a history? (at schools etc. ) We need to simplify the way we interpret and teach the past (indigenous knowledge systems) When we talk about heritage/the past, we also talk about a tension between development and conservatism. Should not falsify art/buildings by conserving them (inventing tradition etc. )
