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Contested Cultural Heritage: Religion, Nationalism, Erasure, and Exclusion in a Global World
Helaine . Ed(S): Silverman
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Description for Contested Cultural Heritage: Religion, Nationalism, Erasure, and Exclusion in a Global World
paperback. Cultural heritage is material - tangible and intangible - that signifies a culture's history or legacy. But who defines what is to be preserved and what is to be erased? This book examines cases from Greece, Spain, Egypt, UK, Zimbabwe, Central America and more. Editor(s): Silverman, Helaine. Num Pages: 295 pages, 5 black & white tables, biography. BIC Classification: HD; JFC. Category: (G) General (US: Trade). Dimension: 235 x 155 x 16. Weight in Grams: 456.
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 ... Read more
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 ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Paperback
Publication date
2014
Publisher
Springer United States
Number of pages
295
Condition
New
Number of Pages
286
Place of Publication
New York, United States
ISBN
9781489995599
SKU
V9781489995599
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