HERITAGE VALUES IN CONTEMPORARY SOCIETY

• Other Authors: Smith, George S. (Editor), Messenger, Phyllis Mauch 1950- (Editor), Soderland, Hilary A. (Editor)
• Format: Book
• Language: English
• Published: Left Coast Press, Inc. Abingdon, Oxon Taylor & Francis Routledge 2009 2016
• Subjects: Cultural property; World Heritage areas
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What do we value about the past? In formulating policies about heritage preservation, that is the inevitable question, and deals not only with economic value but also the intangible value to individuals, communities and society as a whole. This interdisciplinary group of scholars-anthropologists, ar...

Table of Contents:

• Pt. I. Defining heritage values. Heritage values and meaning in social context. Heritages, identities, and roots : a critique of arborescent models of heritage and identity / Ian Russell ; Heritage values in contemporary popular culture / Cornelius Holtorf ; A consideration of heritage values in contemporary society / Katsuyuki Okamura ; Technology, heritage values, and interpretation / Neil Asher Silberman ; Archaeological heritage values in cross-cultural context / Jeffrey H. Altschul
• Management, policy formation, and heritage values. Values in cultural resource management / Kate Clark ; Heritage values, public policy, and development / Arlene K. Fleming ; From national to local : intangible values and the decentralization of heritage management in the United States / David W. Morgan ... [et al.] ; Values and the evolving concept of heritage : the first century of archaeology and law in the United States (1906-2006) / Hilary A. Soderland
• Pt. II. Applying heritage values. Teaching and learning heritage values. Teaching heritage values through field schools : case studies from New England / Elizabeth S. Chilton ; Native American heritage values : building curriculum, building bridges / Joelle Clark and Margaret A. Heath ; The past in the present : issues, perspectives and challenges in teaching and learning archaeology / Karina Croucher
• Stakeholders and heritage values. Experiencing heritage values among the Doro ana Pume of Venezuela / Pei-Lin Yu ; Articulating culture in the legal sphere : heritage values, Native Americans, and the law / Susan B. Bruning ; Heritage values and Mexican cultural policies : dispossession of the "Other's" culture by the Mexican archaeological system / Lilia Lizama Aranda
• Heritage values and world heritage. Global heritage tourism : the value of experiencing the past / Ian Baxter ; Evaluating values of world heritage sites and cultural tourism in China / Chen Shen ; The protection of heritage values while utilizing world heritage sites for the benefit of the community / Roy Eugene Graham ; Heritage values and meanings in contemporary Thailand / Thanik Lertcharnrit.