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Author Harrison, Rodney

Title Heritage
Published Hoboken : Taylor and Francis, 2012

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Description 1 online resource (289 pages)
Contents Introduction : heritage everywhere -- Some definitions : heritage, modernity, materiality -- Prehistories of world heritage : the emergence of a concept -- Late-modernity and the heritage boom -- Critical heritage studies and the discursive turn -- Intangible heritage and cultural landscapes -- Heritage, diversity and human rights -- Heritage and the "problem" of memory -- Dialogical heritage and sustainability -- A future for the past?
Summary Historic sites, memorials, national parks, museums ... we live in an age in which heritage is ever-present. But what does it mean to live amongst the spectral traces of the past, the heterogeneous piling up of historic materials in the present? How did heritage grow from the concern of a handful of enthusiasts and specialists in one part of the world to something which is considered to be universally cherished? And what concepts and approaches are necessary to understanding this global obsession? Over the decades, since the adoption of the World Heritage Convention, various 'crises' of definition
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 234-255) and index
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Subject Cultural property.
Historic preservation.
Culture policy
historic preservation.
Cultural property
Historic preservation
Denkmalpflege
Kulturerbe
Kulturpolitik
Form Electronic book
ISBN 9781136267673
1136267670