Heritage Machine

Fetishism and Domination in Maragateria, Spain

AvPablo Alonso Gonzalez

Inbunden, Engelska, 2018

Del i serien Anthropology, Culture and Society

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Beskrivning

This book upturns the conventional understanding of heritage, challenging widespread notions about how we relate to and why we preserve the past.Heritage research is often based on the assumption that heritage is something ‘given’ to us, that it is good and valuable in its own right. However, by looking at the historical and cultural roots of heritage and its development through the Enlightenment, modernity and capitalism, Pablo Alonso Gonzalez shows that it is in fact a system pervaded by fetishistic social relationships, embedded in capitalism, and not as benign as it appears.Focusing on a case study in the region of Maragatería, Spain, Alonso Gonzalez explores the ethnic and racial discrimination towards the local population in the context of Spanish nationalism, and how this formed the region’s heritage today. By challenging mainstream scholarship in the field, The Heritage Machine rethinks the relations between heritage, ideology and capitalism.

Produktinformation

Utgivningsdatum:2018-12-20
Mått:135 x 215 x 26 mm
Vikt:387 g
Format:Inbunden
Språk:Engelska
Serie:Anthropology, Culture and Society
Antal sidor:272
Förlag:Pluto Press
ISBN:9780745338071

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Pablo Alonso Gonzalez is Tenure Track Researcher in Cultural Anthropology at the Higher Research Council of Spain (CSIC). He holds a PhD in history from the University of Leon in Spain and a PhD in archaeology and heritage studies from the University of Cambridge. His research addresses heritage as a political reality at the intersection between society and material culture from the past. He is the author of The Heritage Machine (Pluto, 2018) and Cuban Cultural Heritage (University Press of Florida, 2018).

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'The Heritage Machine pushes us to question disciplinary boundaries through a well-crafted and critical analysis of 'heritage' that combines introspection with ethnographic approaches. Gonzalez's provocation in this book is radical'

Innehållsförteckning

List of FiguresSeries Preface1. Introduction2. The Emergence of Heritage3. Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Spain4. The Subordination of Peasants in Maragateria 5. Before Heritage: 'Juntas Vecinales' and 'Tamboriteros'6. Social Construction of Heritage in the Teleno Military Shooting Range7. Pseudo-archaeology and the Critique of Heritage Epistemology8. Return to the Countryside in Prada de la Sierra9. The Heritage Machine in Val de San Lorenzo10. The Spectacle of the Other and the Negation of HeritageBibilographyIndex