African Cultural Heritage
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What is included in natural heritage?

  • Intangible cultural values, beliefs, and folklore
  • Landscapes, landforms, flora, and fauna (correct)
  • Cultural practices, knowledge systems, and indigenous technologies
  • Monuments, groups of buildings, and sites with historical value

    • What is the UNESCO 1972 Convention's definition of cultural heritage?

  • Intangible cultural values, beliefs, and folklore
  • Landscapes, landforms, and biodiversity
  • Monuments, groups of buildings, and sites with historical, aesthetic, archaeological, scientific, or anthropological value (correct)
  • Cultural practices, knowledge systems, and indigenous technologies

    • What is an example of mixed heritage in Ghana?

  • Elmina Castle
  • Mole National Park (correct)
  • Kakum National Park (correct)
  • Cape Coast Castle

    • What is an example of tangible heritage?

    <p>Physical natural and cultural legacies</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is intangible heritage?

    <p>Non-physical cultural, natural, and supernatural practices</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an attribute of heritage resources?

    <p>It is inherited from the past and present generations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of mixed heritage?

    <p>It embodies both natural and cultural resources</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is not an attribute of heritage resources?

    <p>It is created in the present generation</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main theme of Chancellor Williams' book 'Destruction of Black Civilization'?

    <p>The history of a great civilization on the African continent</p> Signup and view all the answers

    According to Walter Rodney, what happened to African societies that led to their decline?

    <p>The impact of European colonization</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the definition of heritage according to UNESCO's 1972 Convention?

    <p>Our legacy from the past, what we live with today and what we pass on to future generations</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main idea behind the assertion 'Blacks were among the very earliest builders of a great civilization on this planet'?

    <p>That African civilizations were among the earliest and greatest on the planet</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who defined heritage as 'inherited physical entities that are broadly shaped by human actions'?

    <p>Layton and Ucko</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the main theme of the lecture 'Introduction to African Tangible and Intangible Cultural Heritage Resources'?

    <p>The definition and significance of African cultural heritage</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is the central idea behind Walter Rodney's statement 'If the Blacks were among the very first builders of civilization and their land the birthplace of civilization, what has happened to them that has left them since then, at the bottom of world society?'

    <p>The decline of African societies from their early glory</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Who defined heritage as 'a complex of inherited tangible and intangible legacies that are usually bequeathed by individuals, families, groups, communities, societies, nations, continents and the globe to their descendants'?

    <p>Prof Wazi Apoh</p> Signup and view all the answers

    How can intangible heritage resources be maintained?

    <p>By social customs and norms</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of heritage resources?

    <p>They are unique and irreplaceable</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a fundamental aspect of heritage?

    <p>It has a shared acceptability</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a feature of heritage that comes with baggage?

    <p>It is a painful and sensitive heritage</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is an example of a heritage that comes with baggage?

    <p>The heritage of slavery and the slave trade</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of tangible heritage resources?

    <p>They can be protected by international and national laws</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a feature of heritage?

    <p>It is valued and devalued by different generations of people</p> Signup and view all the answers

    What is a characteristic of heritage resources?

    <p>They are contested and charged with emotions</p> Signup and view all the answers

    Study Notes

    Archaeology and African Cultural Heritage

    • The assertion "Blacks were among the very earliest builders of a great civilization on this planet" is attributed to Chancellor Williams (1974).
    • This assertion suggests that Africans were among the first to develop writing, sciences, engineering, medicine, architecture, religion, and the fine arts.

    Definition of Heritage

    • Heritage has been defined in multiple ways, including as our legacy from the past, what we live with today, and what we pass on to future generations (UNESCO, 1972).
    • It is a complex of inherited tangible and intangible legacies bequeathed by individuals, families, groups, communities, societies, nations, and continents to their descendants (Apoh, n.d.).

    Forms of Heritage

    • Natural heritage includes all natural things, such as landscapes, landforms, flora, and fauna, representing biodiversity.
    • Cultural heritage includes monuments, groups of buildings and sites with historical, aesthetic, archaeological, scientific, or anthropological value, as well as cultural practices, knowledge systems, and indigenous technologies (UNESCO, 1972).
    • Mixed heritage embodies both natural and cultural resources, such as national parks with evidence of both cultural and natural heritage resources.

    Tangible Heritage

    • Tangible heritage includes physical and touchable inherited legacies, such as physical natural and cultural legacies of a group or society.

    Intangible Heritage

    • Intangible heritage includes non-physical or non-touchable cultural, natural, and supernatural practices and legacies of a group or society, such as inherited intangible cultural values, beliefs, oral accounts, customs, perceptions, traditions, folklore, myths, and unwritten philosophical or abstract perceptions.

    Attributes of Heritage Resources

    • Heritage resources are inherited from the past and present generations.
    • They can be preserved, protected, rehabilitated, maintained, or destroyed in the present.
    • Intangible heritage is difficult to preserve but can be maintained by social customs, rules, and norms.
    • Some tangible heritage resources can be protected by international and national laws.
    • Heritage resources can be valued and devalued by different generations of people.
    • Heritage resources can be contested and are charged with emotions.
    • Even though they can be copied, they are unique and irreplaceable.
    • Heritage has a shared acceptability, either good or bad, with or without baggage.
    • Heritage resources can come with baggage, such as painful or sensitive heritage, like the heritage of slavery and the slave trade.

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