Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of 'participatory culture' the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced m…
Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of 'participatory culture' the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced m…
Heritage and Social Media explores how social media reframes our understanding and experience of heritage. Through the idea of 'participatory culture' the book begins to examine how social media can be brought to bear on the encounter with heritage and on the socially produced m…
Eighteenth-century gentleman scholars collected antiquities. Nineteenth-century nation states built museums to preserve their historical monuments. In the present world, heritage is a global concern as well as an issue of identity politics. What does it mean when runic stones or…
Part I. Case studiesCrowdsourcing in Brooklyn / Shelley Bernstein, Brooklyn Museum, USAOld weather : approaching collections from a different angle / Lucinda Blaser, Royal Museums Greenwich, UK Many hands make light work. Many hands together make merry work : transcribe Bentham …
"This volume brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous repatriation practitioners and researchers to provide the reader with an international overview of the removal and return of Ancestral Remains. The Ancestral Remains of Indigenous peoples are today housed in museums and …
"This volume brings together Indigenous and non-Indigenous repatriation practitioners and researchers to provide the reader with an international overview of the removal and return of Ancestral Remains. The Ancestral Remains of Indigenous peoples are today housed in museums and …
Defining cultural heritage in international law -- International legal framework -- Cultural heritage and armed conflicts -- The return, restitution, and repatriation of movable cultural heritage -- World Heritage Convention -- Underwater cultural heritage -- Intangible cultural…
This book addresses questions about theories of heritage, its methodologies of research, and where its boundaries lie with tourism, urban development, post-disaster recovery, collective identities, memory, or conflict. This book is a collection of heritage studies from a critica…
Introduction: "Historicising heritage and emotions" / Alicia Marchant -- Affective histories of blood, stone and land in Medieval and Early Modern Britain -- Carved in stone: engaging with the past in Medieval Orkney / Sarah Randles -- Wulfstan of Worcester's weeping: the archit…
While the archaeological legacies of Greece and Cyprus are often considered to represent some of the highest values of Western civilization-democracy, progress, aesthetic harmony, and rationalism-this much adored and heavily touristed heritage can quickly become the stage for cl…
What are the leading tools and archives in digital cultural heritage? How can they be integrated into research infrastructures to better serve their intended audiences? In this book authors from a wide range of countries, representing some of the best research projects in digita…