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Contested Cultural Heritage: Religion, Nationalism, Erasure, and Exclusion in a Global World

By Helaine Silverman (auth.) , Helaine Silverman (eds.)

Book information

Publisher
Springer-Verlag New York
Year
2011
ISBN
1441973044, 9781441973047
DOI
10.1007/978-1-4419-7305-4
Language
english
Format
PDF
Filesize
9 MB (9635618 bytes)
Edition
1
Pages
286\297
Topic
Religion
Time added
2011-06-04 13:46:07
Archaeology; Cultural Heritage

Description

Cultural heritage is material – tangible and intangible – that signifies a culture’s history or legacy. It has become a venue for contestation, ranging in scale from protesting to violently claimed and destroyed. But who defines what is to be preserved and what is to be erased? As cultural heritage becomes increasingly significant across the world, the number of issues for critical analysis and, hopefully, mediation, arise. The issue stems from various groups: religious, ethnic, national, political, and others come together to claim, appropriate, use, exclude, or erase markers and manifestations of their own and others’ cultural heritage as a means for asserting, defending, or denying critical claims to power, land, and legitimacy. Can cultural heritage be well managed and promoted while at the same time kept within parameters so as to diminish contestation? The cases herein rage from Greece, Spain, Egypt, the UK, Syria, Zimbabwe, Italy, the Balkans, Bénin, and Central America.

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