Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property (eBook, ePUB)

Redaktion: Layton, R.; Thomas, J.; Stone, P.

• Format: ePub

Produktbeschreibung

This work asks whether the idea of world heritage is an essential mechanism for the protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage, or whether it subjugates a diversity of cultural traditions to specifically Western ideas.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134604975
• Artikelnr.: 42641497

Autorenporträt

Robert Layton is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham. Peter G. Stone is Chief Executive of the World Archaeological Congress and Lecturer in Heritage Studies at the University of Newcastle. Julian Thomas is Chair of Archaeology at the University of Manchester.

Inhaltsangabe

1 Introduction: the destruction and conservation of cultural property 2 The
uneasy bedfellows: universality and cultural heritage 3 Should developing
countries restore and conserve? 4 The end of history? Archaeology and the
politics of identity in a globalized world 5 Return to Alexandria: conflict
and contradiction in discourses of origins and heritage revivalism 6
Renovating Hue (Vietnam): authenticating destruction, reconstructing
authenticity 7 Destruction and conservation of cultural property in Brazil:
academic and practical challenges 8 From museum to mantelpiece: the
antiquities trade in the United Kingdom 9 A note on the excavations at
Ayodhya with reference to the Mandir-Masjid issue 10 The Ayodhya Issue 11
Ayodhya, the print media and communalism 12 The protection of Croatia's
cultural heritage during war 1991-95 13 Challenges and dilemmas facing the
reconstruction of war-damaged cultural heritage: the case study of
Pocitelj, Bosnia-Herzegovina 14 Imminent or eminent domain? The contest
over Thessaloniki's Rotonda 15 The politics of the past: Emain Macha
(Navan), Northern Ireland 16 Making news out of archaeological sites: the
experience at Ijaye Orile, Nigeria 17 The changing use of worship in Roman
and medieval Cordoba 18 The Adriatic Islands Project: monument destruction
and protection in the Central Dalmatian Islands 19 'Pios vandals':
restoration or destruction in Sri Lanka? 20 Destruction or conservation?
Some aspects of monument policy in British India (1899-1905) 21 Use, value
and significance in heritage management 22 Is the past a non-renewable
resource? 23 Cape Town's District Six and archaeology of memory