Shared Knowledge, Shared Power: Engaging Local and Indigenous Heritage

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This volume brings together the experiences and research of heritage practitioners, archaeologists, and educators to explore new and unique approaches to heritage studies. The last several decades have witnessed a rapid increase in the field of cultural heritage studies worldwide. This increase in the number of studies and in interest by the public as well as academics has effected substantial change in the understanding of heritage and approaches to heritage studies. This change has also impacted the perception of communities, how to study and protect the physical residues of heritage, and how to share the knowledge of heritage. It has brought the issue of who has knowledge and how the value of heritage can be shared more effectively with communities who then ascribe meaning and value to heritage materials. Heritage studies, until a few decades ago, exclusively studied the material culture of the past as part of elitist approaches that completely neglected communities’ rights to knowledge of their own heritage. Additionally, heritage practitioners and archaeologists neither shared this knowledge nor engaged with communities about their heritage. Communities were also mostly deprived from contributing to heritage and archaeological studies. This kind of top-down approach was quite common in many parts of the world. But recent studies and research in the field have shown the importance of including the public in projects, and that sharing the knowledge produced through heritage studies and archaeological works is significant for the protection and preservation of heritage materials; it has finally been understood that excluding the public from heritage is not ethical. This publication presents a wide array of case studies with different approaches and methods from many parts of the world to answer these questions. Front Matter ....Pages i-ix Introduction: Approaches to Heritage and Communities (Veysel Apaydin)....Pages 1-8 Intellectual Soup: On the Reformulation and Repatriation of Indigenous Knowledge (Claire Smith, Vincent Copley Sr, Gary Jackson)....Pages 9-28 Who Knows What? Inclusivity Versus Exclusivity in the Interactions of Heritage and Local-Indigenous Communities (Veysel Apaydin)....Pages 29-44 Community Archaeology in Ireland: Less Mitigator, More Mediator? (Ian W. Doyle)....Pages 45-59 Shaping Community Heritage Synergies Between Roman Barcelona Spaces and the Gothic Neighborhood (Ana Pastor Pérez)....Pages 61-86 The Herculaneum Centre: The Reciprocal Benefits Gained from Building Capacities for Cultural Heritage Among Institutions and Communities (Christian Biggi, Bianca Capasso, Francesca Del Duca)....Pages 87-105 Get’em While They’re Young: Advances in Participatory Heritage Education in Croatia (Ivor Janković, Sanjin Mihelić)....Pages 107-117 The SITAR Project: Web Platform for Archaeological Knowledge Sharing (Mirella Serlorenzi, Federica Lamonaca, Stefania Picciola)....Pages 119-128 TrowelBlazers: Accidentally Crowdsourcing an Archive of Women in Archaeology (Brenna Hassett, Suzanne Pilaar Birch, Victoria Herridge, Rebecca Wragg Sykes)....Pages 129-141 Epilogue: Some Reflections on Community Archaeology and Heritage (Gabriel Moshenska)....Pages 143-146 Erratum to: Shared Knowledge, Shared Power (Veysel Apaydin)....Pages E1-E1 Back Matter ....Pages 147-148