CEU Electronic Theses and Dissertations, 2019
| Author | Mundopa, Nyararai Ellen |
|---|---|
| Title | Researching, Preserving And Presenting Variability: Towards An Augmented Management Of Drystone-Built-Capitals Of The Zimbabwe Cult |
| Summary | The National Museums and Monuments of Zimbabwe (NMMZ), the nation’s custodian of cultural and natural heritage, has developed a classification system of monuments as a way of prioritizing human and financial resources for management purposes. The system, which ranks sites from class one to four, privileges a few monuments in classes one and two, managing the others in classes three and four by negligence. Archaeological research has exposed the Zimbabwe Culture as a phenomenon that varied widely across time and space, bringing out a complex and ambiguous concept of the Zimbabwe culture. In recent years, sporadic monuments inspection outreaches to some of the less privileged classes of the drystone-built heritage have reported extensive vandalism and disappearance of these sites. Departing from current heritage management framework of the Zimbabwe culture sites, this thesis explores how an increasing body of archaeological evidence about the variability of the Zimbabwe sites can be used to inform a more representative model of managing and salvaging this heritage. Using the decolonial theory which advocates for the collaboration of heritage experts and local communities in the holistic management of heritage inclusive of biodiversity drawing from the Ndongo Site management model |
| Supervisor | Kolwaski Alexandra |
| Department | Medieval Studies MA |
| Full text | https://www.etd.ceu.edu/2019/mundopa_nyararai.pdf |
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