"How is the medieval world depicted today? Two German museums serve as case studies for a vibrant, imaginative, and provocative enactment of twenty-first century medievalism : the Museum Wolfram von Eschenbach in Wolframs Eschenbach (1995) and the Nibelung Museum in Worms (2001)…
Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts. This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of social…
"Heritage processes vary according to cultural, national, geographical, and historical contexts. This volume is unique in that it is dedicated to approaching the analysis of heritage through the concepts of social movements. Adapting the latest developments in the field of socia…
List of illustrations -- Acknowledgements -- List of abbreviations -- Note on the Croatian language -- Introduction. Heritage at the margins -- Chapter 1. Dubrovnik's world heritage: between the universal and the particular -- Chapter 2. The Past in the present -- Chapter 3. Pos…
"The Return of Cultural Heritage to Latin America takes a new approach to the question of returns and restitutions. It is the first publication to look at the domestic politics of claiming countries in order to understand who supports the claims and why. Drawing on analysis of a…
Introduction. Grassroots values : issues, questions and perspectives on local heritage / Harriet Evans & Michael Rowlands -- What and whose is local heritage? perspectives from everyday lives in an "old Beijing neighborhood" / Harriet Evans -- Encountering Virginia Woolf in Dash…
This compelling book offers a fresh and novel approach to study cultural and artistic expression from the perspective of 'the commons'. It demonstrates how identifying cultures as shared resources is useful in eliciting the main factors and social dilemmas affecting the producti…
"Archaeology, Heritage, and Wellbeing fills an important gap in the academic literature, bringing together experts from archaeology/ historic environment and mental health research to provide an interdisciplinary overview of this emerging subject area. The book, uniquely, provid…
This book explores interrelationships between the field practices of anthropology, the preservation goals of cultural heritage, and the consumption desires of tourism, focusing in particular on how they interact in relation to what he calls "paradise-scapes."
How and why do some places in the world become symbols of illusive paradise, and what does this mean for their residents? Moving between anthropology, tourism, and the increasingly influential cultural heritage movement, Partners in Paradise examines the origins of a Euro-Americ…
Museums, Infinity and the Culture of Protocols enters into a dialogue about museums' responsibility for the curation of its collections into an infinite future, whilst also tackling contentious issues of repatriation and digital access to collections. Bringing into focus a numbe…
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