FEATURING - Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by John Beardsley.

The Special Collections Book of the Week this week is:

Cultural Landscape Heritage in Sub-Saharan Africa, edited by John Beardsley.

Sub-Saharan Africa is one of the longest occupied and least studied landscapes on earth. While scholarship has been attentive to images of nature made by the region’s explorers and settlers and to landscapes of the colonial era, which are public parks and game preserves, botanical gardens and urban plans, little attention has been paid to spaces created by and for Africans themselves, from the precolonial era to the present. This book is a contribution to a small but growing effort to address this oversight. Its essays present a range of landscapes, pathways and cairns used by Nomadic peoples to navigate through and mark significant places.

Access: https://univofpretoria.on.worldcat.org/oclc/908698958

This book is available at Special Collections, housed on level 5 of the Merensky 2 Library, and is part of our Tukkiana (TUK) Collection.

The Special Collections unit of the Department of Library Services plays a stewardship role in the acquisition and preservation of the Library's rare and valuable information resources, making them accessible to students, staff and researchers, as well as safeguarding them for future generations.