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Author Smith, Laurajane, author.

Title Uses of heritage / Laurajane Smith.

Publication Info. London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006.

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 Axe ACLS Humanities E-Book  Electronic Book    ---  Available
Description 1 online resource (xiv, 351 pages) : illustrations
text txt rdacontent
computer c rdamedia
online resource cr rdacarrier
Series ACLS Humanities E-Book.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-341) and index.
Contents The discourse of heritage -- Heritage as a cultural process -- Authorizing institutions of heritage -- The manored' past: the banality of grandiloquence -- Fellas, fossils and country: the Riversleigh landscape -- Labour heritage: performing and remembering -- The slate wiped clean? Heritage, memory and landscape in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England -- "The issue is control": indigenous politics and the discourse of heritage.
Summary "Heritage value is too often seen as self-evident -- things must be preserved and treasured because they have an inherent importance. Laurajane Smith challenges this idea. She demonstrates forcefully that heritage value is not inherent in physical objects or places, rather these objects and places are used to give tangibility to the values that underpin different communities, and then to assert and affirm these values for a range of reasons. She identifies and explores the various uses to which heritage is put in a series of case studies from around the world, including the USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The result is a practically-grounded, accessible theorzation of heritage as a cultural practice."
Reproduction Electronic text and image data. Ann Arbor, Mich. : University of Michigan, Michigan Publishing, 2024. EPUB file. ([ACLS Humanities E-Book])
Note All rights reserved.
Subject Material culture.
Group identity.
Performance art -- Social aspects.
Material culture -- Case studies.
Group identity -- Case studies.
Performance art -- Social aspects -- Case studies.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.
In: ACLS Humanities E-Book. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/
ISBN 9780415318310 (pbk.)
0415318319 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415318300
9780415318303
0203602269
9780415318319
9781134368037
1134368038
9780203602263 (ebk)
Standard No. heb40215 hdl

 
    
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