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Taking Archaeology Out of Heritage Book

Archaeology has, on the whole, tended to dominate the development of public policies and practices applicable to what is often referred to as 'heritage'. This book aims to examine the conflation of heritage with archaeology that has occurred as a result. To do so, it asks whether archaeology can usefully contribute to critical understandings of heritage, which, the volume contends, must consider heritage both in terms of what it is and the cultural, social and political work it does in contemporary societies. Archaeologists have been very successful in protecting what they perceive to be their database - a success that owes much to the development and maintenance of a suite of heritage management practices that work to legitimize their privileged access to, and control of, that database. However, is archaeological data actually heritage? Moreover, does archaeological knowledge offer a meaningful reflection of 'the historic environment', in terms of the uses, values and associations it carries for the various and different communities or publics that engage with that environment/heritage? The volume brings together academic and field archaeologists, academics from heritage studies and community activists from the UK and Europe more generally to debate these issues.Read More

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  • 1443814423
  • 9781443814423
  • Emma Waterton
  • 1 December 2009
  • Cambridge Scholars Publishing
  • Hardcover (Book)
  • 250
  • New edition
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