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SUMMARY:AAG Lent 2023 Seminar 2 - Decolonisation of Archaeological Heritag
 e Management in Zimbabwe: Legal Frameworks and Practices - Dr Munyaradzi E
 lton Sagiya\, Bindura University of Science Education\, Zimbabwe
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DESCRIPTION:Since the early 1980s\, efforts to decolonise archaeological h
 eritage management practices in Zimbabwe have been ongoing\, in response t
 o calls from spirit mediums\, traditional leaders\, local communities\, he
 ritage state agencies\, among other stakeholders. However\, the colonial p
 hilosophies and practices of looking after heritage are still embedded wit
 hin institutional and legal frameworks that govern heritage resources. Con
 sequently\, in recent years\, the calls have become louder\, particularly 
 from academia and heritage practitioners for the development and adoption 
 of locally and community informed systems and approaches of managing herit
 age. Relying on personal experiences and datasets from heritage management
  research carried out in north-western Zimbabwe between 2017 – 2022\, th
 is presentation examines the governance of heritage in post-colonial Zimba
 bwe. The presentation discusses the challenges and opportunities for recon
 ciling the local and customary community-based heritage management framewo
 rks with the ones introduced during the colonial era (1890 -1980). The pre
 sentation argues for\, and makes recommendations for legal\, institutional
 \, and operational reforms in the heritage sector\, to match the rapid pol
 itical\, economic\, and cultural transformations that are manifesting in Z
 imbabwe and the rest of the world.\n\n\nDr Munyaradzi Elton Sagiya is a Le
 cturer in the Faculty of Social Sciences and Humanities at Bindura Univers
 ity of Science Education\, Zimbabwe. Prior to his current employment\, Mun
 yaradzi was a Curator of Archaeology and Head of the Research and Conserva
 tion department (March 2010 – April 2021) at Great Zimbabwe World Herita
 ge Site. He is also the Principal Investigator for the British Museum’s 
 Endangered Material Knowledge Programme\, a research project which aims at
  documenting the knowledge\, skills and practices of dry-stone masonry at 
 Great Zimbabwe. \n\nThis is an online event via Zoom. Register in advance 
 for this meeting here:   https://zoom.us/meeting/register/tJIlfu2urjorHtCG
 VjOIfeccp50pqTHdjRhE 
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