Heritage at the Interface: Interpretation and Identity

✍ Scribed by Glenn Hooper

• Publisher: University Press of Florida
• Year: 2018
• Tongue: English
• Leaves: 243
• Series: Cultural Heritage Studies
• Category: Library

✦ Synopsis

“Provides innovative and exciting insights into heritage identity, meaning, and belonging from a global perspective. A welcome addition to the growing heritage literature.”—Dallen J. Timothy, author of Cultural Heritage and Tourism “An impressive group of international authors and cases. The book should be read by anyone working in heritage management, tourism, or leisure studies.”—A. V. Seaton, coeditor of Slavery, Contested Heritage, and Thanatourism Bringing together high-profile cultural heritage sites from around the world, this volume shows how the term heritage has been used or understood by different groups of people over time. For some, the term has meant a celebration of a particular culture and history or the promotion of accessibility, tolerance, and inclusivity. But for others it has been connected with cultural privilege, social exclusion, or exploitation via the tourism industry. These case studies are taken from America, Britain, Ireland, France, Germany, Austria, India, China, and the Caribbean. The varied approaches to heritage seen here range from the Nazi regime’s vision of German national history to the present-day push to recover Native American culture from outdated Hollywood portrayals. Featuring a tribute to Sir Gregory Ashworth, whose influential work drew attention to the contested meanings of heritage, this volume illuminates a fascinating international debate.

✦ Table of Contents

Cover
Heritage at the Interface
Title
Copyright
Dedication
Contents
List of Illustrations
Foreword
Introduction
1. Heritage as a Social Practice
2. “An Inconvenient Truth”: The Use of Federal Policy to Erase American Indians, Indian Tribes, and Indigenous Heritage
3. Consuming the Contested Heritage of War: Tourism, Territoriality, and the Memorial Landscapes of the Western Front
4. Historic Preservation in Nazi Germany: Practices, Patterns, and Politics
5. Displaying Independent India Abroad: Nationalism, Cultural Diplomacy, and Collaboration at the Nehru Memorial Exhibition, 1965–2015
6. The Negotiation of Identity and Belonging in Kakadu National Park
7. Knowing Subjects in an Unknown Place: Producing Identity through Tourism and Heritage in Niru Village, Southwest China
8. Religious Cultural Heritage: The Law and Politics of Conservation, Iconoclasm, and Identity
9. Beyond the Nation: Making Heritage Inclusive
10. Unstable Foundations? The Role of Identity in Heritage Management in Mauritius
11. Shared Identities through Cross-Border Cultural Tourism
12. The Place of History: Heritage, Tourism, and Community in Derry/ Londonderry
13. Imagining the Next Day: Music, Heritage, and Hope
Afterword: On Behalf Also of Gregory Ashworth
Select Bibliography
List of Contributors
Index