TY  - BOOK
AU  - Mark Turin
AU  - Daniela Merolla
AB  - In a world where new technologies are being developed at a dizzying pace, how can we best approach oral genres that represent heritage? Taking an innovative and interdisciplinary approach, this volume explores the idea of sharing as a model to construct and disseminate the knowledge of literary heritage with the people who are represented by and in it. Expert contributors interweave sociological analysis with an appraisal of the transformative impact of technology on literary and cultural production. Does technology restrict, constraining the experience of an oral performance, or does it afford new openings for different aesthetic experiences? Topics explored include the Mara Cultural Heritage Digital Library, the preservation of Ewe heritage material, new eresources for texts in Manding languages, and the possibilities of technauriture. This timely and necessary collection also examines to what extent digital documents can be and have been institutionalised in archives and museums, how digital heritage can remain free from co-option by hegemonic groups, and the roles that exist for community voices. A valuable contributi on to a fast-developing field, this book is required reading for scholars and students in the fields of heritage, anthropology, linguistics, history and the emerging disciplines of multi-media documentation and analysis, as well as those working in the field of literature, folklore, and African studies. It is also important reading for museum and archive curators.
ID  - OAPEN ID: 40584
KW  - linguistic
KW  - anthropology
KW  - multimedia
KW  - Oral literature
KW  - Africa
KW  - history
KW  - technology
KW  - sharing
KW  - digital heritage
KW  - literary heritage
L1  - http://books.openedition.org/obp/4192
LA  - English
LK  - https://directory.doabooks.org/handle/20.500.12854/59065
PB  - Open Book Publishers
SN  - 9782821897304
TI  - Searching for Sharing : Heritage and Multimedia in Africanull
ER  - 
