Institute of Social and Cultural Anthropology at the University of Hamburg
Erscheinungsjahr:
2020
Medientyp:
Text
Schlagworte:
Memory culture
history
nation-building
colonialism
Namibia
museum
ddc:300
Beschreibung:
This paper illustrates the significance of memory culture in the post-colony. The analyses of the “Independence Memorial Museum” in Windhoek will show different aspects of Namibian memory culture and how the SWAPO dominated government uses history to define a national Namibian identity – an approach that leads to tensions between the government and several communities, like the Nama and the German-speaking Namibians. Their conflicts with the state will be discussed in the cases of the Witbooi Bible and the Bismarck Street, and shown how they are connected with questions about property, heritage, and identity in the post-colonial setting.
Lizenz:
Copyright (c) 2020 Tilman Gorenflo
Quellsystem:
Ethnoscripts - Zeitschrift für aktuelle ethnologische Studien