Uses of heritage

Uses of heritage / Laurajane Smith.

Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Laurajane Smith identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world. Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved because they have an inherent importance,...

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Main Author: Smith, Laurajane
Format: eBook
Language:English
Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006.
Subjects:
Material culture.
Group identity.
Performance art > Social aspects.
Material culture > Case studies.
Group identity > Case studies.
Performance art > Social aspects > Case studies.
material culture (discipline)
group identity.
SOCIAL SCIENCE > Archaeology.
Group identity
Material culture
Electronic books.
Case studies
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Table of Contents:
  • The discourse of heritage
  • Heritage as a cultural process
  • Authorizing institutions of heritage
  • The manored' past: the banality of grandiloquence
  • Fellas, fossils and country: the Riversleigh landscape
  • Labour heritage: performing and remembering
  • The slate wiped clean? Heritage, memory and landscape in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England
  • "The issue is control": indigenous politics and the discourse of heritage.

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