Lynn Meskell is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Archaeology Center at Stanford University. Before coming to Stanford in 2005 she was Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Some of her recent books and edited collections include Cosmopolitan Archaeologies (2009) and The Nature of Culture: The New South Africa (Blackwell, 2011). Her new research focuses on the role of UNESCO in terms of heritage rights, sovereignty and international politics.

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• Notes on Contributors Introduction: Globalizing Heritage 1Lynn Meskell1 UNESCO and New World Orders 22Lynn Meskell and Christoph Brumann2 Neoliberalism, Heritage Regimes, and Cultural Rights 43Rosemary J. Coombe and Lindsay M. Weiss3 Civil Societies? Heritage Diplomacy and Neo-Imperialism 70Morag M. Kersel and Christina Luke4 Bridging Cultural and Natural Heritage 94Denis Byrne and Gro Birgit Ween5 Communities and Ethics in the Heritage Debates 112Chip Colwell and Charlotte Joy6 Heritage Management and Conservation: From Colonization to Globalization 131Webber Ndoro and Gamini Wijesuriya7 Heritage and Violence 150Alfredo González-Ruibal and Martin Hall8 Urban Heritage and Social Movements 171Chiara De Cesari and Michael Herzfeld9 Sustainable Development: Heritage, Community, Economics 196Sophia Labadi and Peter G. Gould10 Transnationalism and Heritage Development 217Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Ian Lilley11 Heritage and Tourism 240Noel B. Salazar and Yujie ZhuIndex 259

Lynn Meskell is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Archaeology Center at Stanford University. Before coming to Stanford in 2005 she was Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Some of her recent books and edited collections include Cosmopolitan Archaeologies (2009) and The Nature of Culture: The New South Africa (Blackwell, 2011). Her new research focuses on the role of UNESCO in terms of heritage rights, sovereignty and international politics.

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• Notes on Contributors Introduction: Globalizing Heritage 1Lynn Meskell1 UNESCO and New World Orders 22Lynn Meskell and Christoph Brumann2 Neoliberalism, Heritage Regimes, and Cultural Rights 43Rosemary J. Coombe and Lindsay M. Weiss3 Civil Societies? Heritage Diplomacy and Neo-Imperialism 70Morag M. Kersel and Christina Luke4 Bridging Cultural and Natural Heritage 94Denis Byrne and Gro Birgit Ween5 Communities and Ethics in the Heritage Debates 112Chip Colwell and Charlotte Joy6 Heritage Management and Conservation: From Colonization to Globalization 131Webber Ndoro and Gamini Wijesuriya7 Heritage and Violence 150Alfredo González-Ruibal and Martin Hall8 Urban Heritage and Social Movements 171Chiara De Cesari and Michael Herzfeld9 Sustainable Development: Heritage, Community, Economics 196Sophia Labadi and Peter G. Gould10 Transnationalism and Heritage Development 217Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Ian Lilley11 Heritage and Tourism 240Noel B. Salazar and Yujie ZhuIndex 259