The Heritage Reader

by Fairclough; Graham

• ISBN13: 9780415372855
• ISBN10: 0415372852
• Edition: 1st
• Format: Hardcover
• Copyright: 2008-02-14
• Publisher: Routledge

Summary

This major new resource is a much-needed support to the few text books in the field and offers an excellent introduction and overview to the established principals and new thinking in cultural heritage management . Leading experts in the field from Europe, North America and Australia, bring together recent and innovative works in the field. With geographically and thematically diverse case studies, they examine the theoretical framework for heritage resource management. Setting significant new thinking within the framework of more established views and ideas on heritage management, the reader re-publishes texts of the past decade with an overview of earlier literature and essays that fill the gaps in between, providing students of all stages with a clear picture of new and older literature. A helpful introduction sets out key issues and debates, and individual chapter introductions and reading lists give a background collection of key works that offer ideas forthe development of thought and study. With good coverage of major issues and solutions in Britain, the US and Australia, The Cultural Heritage Reader will appeal to students internationally across the English-speaking world, and will stand proud as a key guide to the study and practice of this major archaeological sector.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. ix
List of tables	p. x
Acknowledgements	p. xi
Introduction: Heritage, Memory and Modernity	p. 1
The Cultural Heritage: Concepts, Values and Principles	p. 13
Heritage Management, Theory and Practice	p. 15
Heritage: From Patrimony to Pastiche	p. 31
Cultural Heritage Management in the United States: Past, Present, and Future	p. 42
Towards a Theoretical Framework for Archaeological Heritage Management	p. 62
Excavation as Theatre	p. 75
Only Connect-Sustainable Development and Cultural Heritage	p. 82
Assessing Values in Conservation Planning: Methodological issues and choices	p. 99
Is the Past a Non-renewable Resource?	p. 125
Sites of Memory and Sites of Discord: Historic monuments as a medium for discussing conflict in Europe	p. 134
Archaeology and Authority in the Twenty-first Century	p. 139
Heritage as Social Action	p. 149
Whose Heritage? Local and Global Perspectives	p. 175
The Politics of the Past: Conflict in the use of heritage in the modern world	p. 177
Professional Attitudes to Indigenous Interests in the Native Title Era: Settler societies compared	p. 191
The Globalization of Archaeology and Heritage: A discussion with Arjun Appadurai	p. 209
Whose Heritage? Un-settling 'The Heritage', re-imagining the post-nation	p. 219
Western Hegemony in Archaeological Heritage Management	p. 229
Whose Heritage to Conserve?: Cross-cultural reflections on political dominance and urban heritage conservation	p. 235
'Time Out of Mind' - 'Mind Out of Time': Custom versus tradition in environmental heritage research and interpretation	p. 245
Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions	p. 256
Politics	p. 274
Methods and Approaches to Cultural Heritage Management	p. 295
New Heritage, an Introductory Essay-People, Landscape and Change	p. 297
Sustaining the Historic Environment: New perspectives on the future	p. 313
The Conservation Plan	p. 322
Commemorative Integrity and Cultural Landscapes: Two national historic sites in British Columbia	p. 331
Explaining LARA: The Lincoln Archaeological Research Assessment in its policy context	p. 340
Assessing Public Perception of Landscape: The LANDMAP experience	p. 346
Cultural Heritage and Resources	p. 363
Cultural Connections to the Land: A Canadian example	p. 373
'An Emu in the Hole': Exploring the link between biodiversity and Aboriginal cultural heritage in New South Wales, Australia	p. 382
Social Sustainability: People, history, and values	p. 392
The European Landscape Convention: An extract	p. 405
'The Long Chain': Archaeology, historical landscape characterization and time depth in the landscape	p. 408
Interpretation and Communication	p. 425
Presenting Archaeology to the Public, Then and Now: An introduction	p. 427
Archaeological Messages and Messengers	p. 457
"Leveling the Playing Field" in the Contested Territory of the South African Past: A "public" versus a "people's" form of historical archaeology outreach	p. 482
Heritage that Hurts: Interpretation in a postmodern world	p. 502
Archaeologies that Hurt; Descendents that Matter: A pragmatic approach to collaboration in the public interpretation of African-American heritage	p. 514
Stonehenge-A Final Solution?	p. 524
More Than Just "Telling the Story": Interpretive narrative archaeology	p. 536
The Archaeologist as Playwright	p. 545
Afterword	p. 557
Change and Creation: Historic landscape character 1950-2000	p. 559
Index	p. 567
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