Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property (eBook, PDF)

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

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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
• Seitenzahl: 352
• Erscheinungstermin: 2. September 2003
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781134604982
• Artikelnr.: 42636422

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