Understanding Heritage in Practice

by West, Susie

• ISBN13: 9780719081545
• ISBN10: 0719081548
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2010-01-01
• Publisher: OXFORD UNIV PR

Summary

Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this authoritative text explores how heritage is delivered and consumed in a global world, and the ever-increasing ways in which heritage is actively valued. New international case studies see heritage as social action, as performance, and as a vehicle for innovations in tourism, challenging the notion that only official heritage practices can successfully select and interpret our links with the past. Aimed primarily at students in heritage studies and professionals in heritage industries, this is book two of three in the Understanding Global Heritage series.

Author Biography

Susie West is Lecturer in Heritage Studies at The Open University.

Table of Contents

List of figures	p. vi
Notes on contributors	p. x
Preface	p. xiii
List of abbreviations	p. xv
Introduction	p. 1
A history of heritage	p. 7
Heritage values	p. 47
Natural heritage	p. 88
Museum practice and heritage	p. 127
Interpretation of heritage	p. 166
Heritage and tourism	p. 205
Heritage as social action	p. 240
Heritage as performance	p. 277
Glossary	p. 313
Acknowledgements	p. 317
Index	p. 318
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