"This book presents innovative and creative ethnographic perspectives on the intersection between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage resulting from ethnographic and artistic research by the TRACES project (an interdisciplinary research project funded by the EU's …
"This book presents innovative and creative ethnographic perspectives on the intersection between art, anthropology, and contested cultural heritage resulting from ethnographic and artistic research by the TRACES project (an interdisciplinary research project funded by the EU's …
"Japan's heritage conservation policy and practice, as deployed through its foreign aid programs, has become one of the main means through which post-World War II Japan has sought to mark its presence in the international arena, both globally and regionally. Heritage conservatio…
"Japan's heritage conservation policy and practice, as deployed through its foreign aid programs, has become one of the main means through which post-World War II Japan has sought to mark its presence in the international arena, both globally and regionally. Heritage conservatio…
While the question of the return of cultural objects is by no means a new one, it has become the subject of increasingly intense debate in recent years. This important book explores the removal and the return of cultural objects from occupied communities during the last two cent…
This work focuses on the influence exerted by British, US, and Australian governments and museums on fashioning international law and museum policy in response to restitution claims. It engages one of the most challenging issues facing museum professionals, international lawyers…
This work focuses on the influence exerted by British, US, and Australian governments and museums on fashioning international law and museum policy in response to restitution claims. It engages one of the most challenging issues facing museum professionals, international lawyers…
Introduction: Refiguring digital cultural heritage and curation -- The official birth of digital data as universal heritage -- Digital data as the heritage of the modern world -- Object concepts in digital cultural heritage -- From objects to ecological formations -- Digital dat…
"This volume deals with the relation between heritage, history and politics in the Balkans. Contributions examine diverse ways in which material and immaterial heritage has been articulated, negotiated and manipulated since the nineteenth century. The major question addressed he…
"In this important ethnography Ziying You explores the role of the "folk literati" in negotiating, defining, and maintaining local cultural heritage. Expanding on the idea of the elite literati--a widely studied pre-modern Chinese social group, influential in cultural production…