Description |
1 online resource (233 pages) : illustrations |
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Series |
ACLS Humanities E-Book.
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Bibliography |
Includes bibliographical references and index. |
Contents |
Postpreservation : looking past loss -- Memory's ecologies : curating mutability in Montana -- When story meets the storm : unsafe harbor -- Orderly decay : philosophies of nonintervention -- A positive passivity : entropic gardens -- Boundary work : on expertise and ambiguity -- Palliative curation : the death of a lighthouse -- Beyond saving : care without conservation. |
Summary |
Transporting readers from derelict homesteads to Cold War test sites, Curated Decay presents an unparalleled provocation to conventional thinking on the conservation of cultural heritage. Caitlin DeSilvey proposes rethinking the care of certain vulnerable sites in terms of ecology and entropy, explaining how we must adopt an ethical stance that allows us to collaborate with - rather than defend against - natural processes. |
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 |
Historic preservation -- Philosophy.
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Cultural property -- Protection.
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Historic sites -- Conservation and restoration.
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Genre/Form |
Electronic books.
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Added Author |
American Council of Learned Societies, issuing body.
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In: |
ACLS Humanities E-Book. http://www.humanitiesebook.org/ |
ISBN |
9780816694365 (hc ; acid-free paper) |
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0816694362 (hc ; acid-free paper) |
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0816694389 (pb ; acid-free paper) |
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9781452953724 (ePub) |
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9781452953717 (ebk.) |
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9780816694389 (paperback) |
Standard No. |
heb40252 hdl |
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