Pt. I. Setting the scene. 1. Introduction: making the means transparent: reasons and reflections -- 2. Heritage studies: an outline -- 3. Public archaeology in the united states in the early twenty-first century -- Pt. II. Heritage methodologies: investigating texts. 4. The history of heritage: a method in analysing legislative historiography -- 5. Means maketh the end: the context for the development of methodologies to assess the state of the historic environment in the UK -- 6. Methods used to investigate the use of the past in the formation of regional identities --
Pt. III. Heritage methodologies: investigating people. 7. Reflections on the practice of ethnography within heritage tourism -- 8. Heritage ethnography as a specialised craft: grasping maritime heritage in Bermuda -- 9. Between the lines and in the margins: interviewing people about attitudes to heritage and identity -- 10. Walking a fine line: obtaining sensitive information using a valid methodology -- 11. Methods for investigating locals' perceptions of a cultural heritage product for tourism: lessons from Botswana -- 12. The public archaeology of African America: reflections on pragmatic methods and their results --
Pt. IV. Heritage methodologies: investigating things. 13. The use of GIS in landscape heritage and attitudes to place: digital deep maps -- 14. Making them draw: the use of drawings when researching public attitudes towards the past -- 15. The heritagescape: looking at heritage sites -- 16. The intangible presence: investigating battlefields -- Pt. V. Commentaries. Heritage and methodology: a view from social anthropology -- Where is the discipline in heritage studies?: a view from environmental psychology
