A dissertation submitted to the Faculty of Science, University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg, in fulfilment of requirements for the degree of Master of Science. Johannesburg, 2015. / Heritage management has been a growing phenomenon throughout the world.
This growth is due to the increasing necessity to protect the world’s cultural
heritage. Heritage management has been closely linked with community
participation as well as laws and policies that protect the heritage. Furthermore,
site use is also of importance to discover how the heritage is presented, protected
and managed. These are the three components that will be the focus of my
research.
The implementation of heritage management requires a management plan that
clearly stipulates and outlines specific procedures to be followed. An ideal
management plan includes the components mentioned above, in that it states the
stakeholders involved, how the heritage place will be preserved and how the
legislation will be used to ensure the protection of such places.
This research focuses on rock art sites as the cultural heritage places and the
importance of protecting them, with specific focus on rock art sites from South
Africa and Mexico. The objective of this study is to analyse the different
management plans from sites chosen from the two countries, compare the
management plans and recommend a best practice for management plans
constructed for rock art sites. The hope is that the recommendations will
contribute to managing rock art sites as well as to the International Collaboration
formed between South Africa and Mexico.
| Identifer | oai:union.ndltd.org:netd.ac.za/oai:union.ndltd.org:wits/oai:wiredspace.wits.ac.za:10539/19290 |
| Date | January 2015 |
| Creators | Rampete, Obakeng Veronica |
| Source Sets | South African National ETD Portal |
| Language | English |
| Detected Language | English |
| Type | Thesis |
| Format | application/pdf |
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