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Title Common Cultural Heritage: The colonial heritage policy
Full text http://hdl.handle.net/1887/20440
Date 2013
Author(s) Bout, Deirdre van den
Contributor(s) Dries, M.H. van den
Abstract In my thesis I focus on the question: To what extent we can speak of mutual colonial heritage in general and in the case of Cape Castle in Cape Town? Though literature and sending questionnaires to heritage managers I looked at the different European mutual heritage policies and compared them. It turned out that the use of the term mutual was not shared by all the involved countries. What we could learn from this comparison is that European policies should focus more on explaining their meaning and definition of mutual heritage towards the partner country in order to make the mutual heritage processes successful, and should have this as their main priority. Because the term Mutual was not always seen as an equal process, but more as a European idea. In my case study I paid attention to the different perspectives on Cape Castle (Cape Town, South Africa). It turned out that the Dutch see the Castle as a symbol that represents the glorious days of the Dutch East India Company. While for the South Africans, the heritage site also represents the horrors of the Apartheid period.
Subject(s) Colonial heritage; Mutual heritage; Colonial heritage policy
Language en
Type of publication Master thesis
Repository Leiden - University of Leiden
Added to C-A: 2013-01-26;13:24:07