Heritage Values in Contemporary Society

by Smith,George S; Smith,George S

• ISBN13: 9781598744460
• ISBN10: 1598744461
• Format: Nonspecific Binding
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

What do we value about the past? In formulating policies about heritage preservation, that is the inevitable question, and deals not only with economic value but also the intangible value to individuals, communities and society as a whole. This interdisciplinary group of scholars-anthropologists, archaeologists, architects, educators, lawyers, heritage administrators, policy analysts, and consultants-make the first attempt to define and assess heritage values on a local, national and global level. Chapters range from the theoretical to policy frameworks to case studies of heritage practice, written by scholars from eight countries. Book jacket.

Table of Contents

Foreword	p. 9
Acknowledgments	p. 13
Introduction	p. 15
Defining Heritage Values	p. 27
Heritage Values and Meaning in Social Context	p. 27
Heritages, Identities, and Roots: A Critique of Arborescent Models of Heritage and Identity	p. 29
Heritage Values in Contemporary Popular Culture	p. 43
A Consideration of Heritage Values in Contemporary Society	p. 55
Technology, Heritage Values, and Interpretation	p. 63
Archaeological Heritage Values in Cross Cultural Context	p. 75
Management, Policy Formation, and Heritage Values	p. 87
Values in Cultural Resource Management	p. 89
Heritage Values, Public Policy, and Development	p. 101
From National to Local: Intangible Values and the Decentralization of Heritage Management in the United States, David W. Morgan	p. 113
Values and the Evolving Concept of Heritage: The First Century of Archaeology and Law in the United States (1906-2006)	p. 129
Applying Heritage Values	p. 145
Teaching and Learning Heritage Values	p. 145
Teaching Heritage Values through Field Schools: Case Studies from New England	p. 147
Native American Heritage Values: Building Curriculum, Building Bridges	p. 159
The Past in the Present: Issues, Perspectives, and Challenges in Teaching and Learning Archaeology	p. 177
Stakeholders and Heritage Values	p. 197
Experiencing Heritage Values among the Doro Ana Pumé of Venezuela	p. 199
Articulating Culture in the Legal Sphere: Heritage Values, Native Americans, and the Law	p. 209
Heritage Values and Mexican Cultural Policies: Dispossession of the "Other's" Culture by the Mexican Archaeological System	p. 225
Heritage Values and World Heritage	p. 239
Global Heritage Tourism: The Value of Experiencing the Past	p. 241
Evaluating Values of World Heritage Sites and Cultural Tourism in China	p. 255
The Protection of Heritage Values while Utilizing World Heritage Sites for the Benefit of the Community	p. 267
Heritage Values and Meanings in Contemporary Thailand	p. 279
Appendix	p. 287
Index	p. 291
About the Editors and Contributors	p. 301
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