Heritage studies: methods and approaches

This is the first volume specifically dedicated to the consolidation and clarification of Heritage Studies as a distinct field with its own means of investigation. It presents the range of methods that can be used and illustrates their application through case studies from different parts of the world, including the UK and USA. The challenge that the collection makes explicit is that Heritage Studies must develop a stronger recognition of the scope and nature of its data and a concise yet explorative understanding of its analytical methods. The methods considered fall within three broad catego.

Setting the scene. Introduction: Making the means transparent : reasons and reflections / Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and John Carman ; Heritage studies : an outline / John Carman and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen ; Public archaeology in the United States in the early twenty-first century / Barbara J. Little -- Heritage methodologies : investigating texts. The history of heritage : a method in analysing legislative historiography / Hilary A. Soderland ; Means maketh the end : the context for the development of methodologies to assess the state of the historic environment in the UK / Ian Baxter ; Methods used to investigate the use of the past in the formation of regional identities / Ulrike Sommer -- Heritage methodologies : investigating people. Reflections on the practice of ethnography within heritage tourism / Catherine Palmer ; Heritage ethnography as a specialised craft : grasping maritime heritage in Bermuda / Charlotte Andrews ; Between the lines and in the margins : interviewing people about attitudes to heritage and identity / Marie Louise Stig Sorensen ; Walking a fine line : obtaining sensitive information using a valid methodology / Morag M. Kersel ; Methods for investiga…