Heritage and Identity explores the complex ways in which heritage actively contributes to the construction and representation of identities in contemporary societies, providing a comprehensive account of the diverse conceptions of heritage and identity across different continent…
Cultural Tourism: The Partnership Between Tourism and Cultural Heritage Management examines the relationship between the sectors that represent opposite sides of the cultural tourism coin. While tourism professionals assess cultural assets for their profit potential, cultural h…
Unique in concept and content, this book examines the relationship between the sectors that represent opposite sides of the cultural tourism coin. While tourism professionals assess cultural assets for their profit potential, cultural heritage professionals judge the same assets…
Sustainable cultural tourism can only occur when the tourism professionals & the cultural heritage professionals form a true partnership based on understanding & appreciation of each other's merits. This book combines the different perspectives & develops a number of conceptual …
This book challenges cherished assumptions about the practice of archaeology and the shaping and implications of interpretation. Drawing on recent work in the Americas, Australia, Africa, Asia, and the Middle East, the authors show how the past is understood in the present and h…
Collection of essays that consider archaeology as a global project that must attend to the cultural, political, and historical specificity of archaeological sites, while also taking into account transnational questions of human rights and heritage preserv.
Introduction : an inquiry into the cultural wealth of nations / Nina Bandelj and Frederick F. Wherry -- The political economy of cultural wealth / Miguel A. Centeno, Nina Bandelj, and Frederick F. Wherry -- Bringing together the ideas of Adam Smith and Pierre Bourdieu / Richard …
"In Heritage of Value, Archaeology of Renown, experts urge archaeologists to reexamine and to change their basic assumptions about how we assign value to cultural places and how we should understand and manage our heritage throughout much of the world." "The book raises concerns…
Cultural property such as works of art, monuments, literature, sacred remains and traditional practices can create a profound sense of communal belonging, yet nothing illuminates the ambiguities of group identity more powerfully than conflicting claims to such material. Addresse…