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Cruz, M. Dores ORCID: 0000-0001-7461-5495 (2022). FRACTURED LANDSCAPES AND THE POLITICS OF SPACE: Remembrance and Memory in Nwadjahane (Southern Mozambique). Mus. Anthropol., 45 (1). S. 57 - 72. HOBOKEN: WILEY. ISSN 1548-1379

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Abstract

Nwadjahane, a small village in southern Mozambique, is set apart from other settlements as the birthplace of Eduardo Mondlane, one of the nation's founding fathers. Declared a national heritage site and made into an open-air museum, Nwadjahane has become a landscape where national and local memories are negotiated. Mondlane is at once a national hero celebrated with statues, exhibitions, and commemorations, as well as locally linked to ancestors and memorialized through ritual sites and sacred trees. I examine how diverse audiences engage, appropriate, and contest the different spaces of Nwadjahane: the village, the museum, the space of ancestors. Highlighting the fractured nature and the politics of this landscape, the tensions, contradictions, claims, and counterclaims made upon a single locale, I use Foucault's concept of heterotopia as an analytical tool to interrogate the juxtaposition of distinct spaces and temporalities, focusing particularly on local interpretations and the historical conditions that made Nwadjahane a national heritage site.

Item Type:	Journal Article
Creators:	Creators Email ORCID ORCID Put Code Cruz, M. Dores UNSPECIFIED orcid.org/0000-0001-7461-5495 UNSPECIFIED
URN:	urn:nbn:de:hbz:38-657468
DOI:	10.1111/muan.12244
Journal or Publication Title:	Mus. Anthropol.
Volume:	45
Number:	1
Page Range:	S. 57 - 72
Date:	2022
Publisher:	WILEY
Place of Publication:	HOBOKEN
ISSN:	1548-1379
Language:	English
Faculty:	Unspecified
Divisions:	Unspecified
Subjects:	no entry
Uncontrolled Keywords:	Keywords Language Anthropology Multiple languages
URI:	http://kups.ub.uni-koeln.de/id/eprint/65746