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The Making of Islamic Heritage. Muslim Pasts and Heritage Presents.
Trinidad . Ed(S): Rico
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Hardback. Editor(s): Rico, Trinidad. Series: Heritage Studies in the Muslim World. Num Pages: 7 black & white illustrations, biography. BIC Classification: HRAM; HRH; JHMC. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 210 x 148. .
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Offering key insights into critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim contexts, this volume considers how Islamic heritages are constructed through texts and practices which award heritage value. It examines how the monolithic representation of Islamic heritage (as a singular construct) can be enriched by the true diversity of Islamic heritages and how endangerment and vulnerability in this type of heritage construct can be re-conceptualized. Assessing these questions through an interdisciplinary lens including heritage studies, anthropology, history, conservation, religious studies and archaeology, this pivot ... Read more
This book is open access under a CC BY 4.0 license.
Offering key insights into critical debates on the construction, management and destruction of heritage in Muslim contexts, this volume considers how Islamic heritages are constructed through texts and practices which award heritage value. It examines how the monolithic representation of Islamic heritage (as a singular construct) can be enriched by the true diversity of Islamic heritages and how endangerment and vulnerability in this type of heritage construct can be re-conceptualized. Assessing these questions through an interdisciplinary lens including heritage studies, anthropology, history, conservation, religious studies and archaeology, this pivot ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Springer Verlag, Singapore Singapore
Condition
New
Series
Heritage Studies in the Muslim World
Number of Pages
131
Place of Publication
Singapore, Singapore
ISBN
9789811040702
SKU
V9789811040702
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Ref
99-15
About Trinidad . Ed(S): Rico
Trinidad Rico is Assistant Professor and Director of the Cultural Heritage and Preservation Studies Program at Rutgers University, New Jersey, USA. Her research covers critical heritage studies, risk and disaster, Islamic materiality, cosmopolitanism, ethnographic heritage, and the vernacularization of heritage discourses and expertise. She is author of Constructing Destruction: Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City (2016), and co-editor of Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription ... Read more
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