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

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...

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Συγγραφή απο Οργανισμό/Αρχή: SpringerLink (Online service)
Άλλοι συγγραφείς: Silverman, Helaine (Επιμελητής έκδοσης)
Μορφή: Ηλεκτρονική πηγή Ηλ. βιβλίο
Γλώσσα:English
Έκδοση: New York, NY : Springer New York, 2011.
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Διαθέσιμο Online:Full Text via HEAL-Link
Πίνακας περιεχομένων:
  • 1 Contested Cultural Heritage: A Selective Historiography, Helaine Silverman
  • 2 The Stratigraphy of Forgetting: The Great Mosque of Cordoba and Its Contested Legacy, D. Fairchild Ruggles
  • 3 Aestheticized Geographies of Conflict: The Politicization of Culture and the Culture of Politics in Belfast’s Mural Tradition, Alexandra Hartnett
  • 4 Blood of Our Ancestors: Cultural Heritage Management in the Balkans, Michael L. Galaty
  • 5 Re-imagining the National Past: Negotiating the Roles of Science, Religion, and History in Contemporary British Ghost Tourism, Michele M. Hanks
  • 6 Collecting and Repatriating Egypt’s Past: Toward a New Nationalism, Salima Ikram
  • 7 National Identity Interrupted: The Mutilation of the Parthenon Marbles and the Greek Claim for Repatriation, Vasiliki Kynourgioupoulou
  • 8 Syrian National Museums: Regional Politics and the Imagined Community, Kari A. Zobler
  • 9 Contestation from the Top: Fascism in the Realm of Culture and Italy’s Conception of the Past, Alvaro Higueras
  • 10 Touring the Slave Route: Inaccurate Authenticities in Bénin, West Africa, Timothy R. Landry
  • 11 Carving the Nation: Zimbabwean Sculptors and the Contested Heritage of Aesthetics, Lance L. Larkin
  • Afterword, El Pilar and Maya Cultural Heritage: Reflections of a Cheerful Pessimist, Anabel Ford.