Constructing Destruction

Trinidad Rico is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Texas A&M University at Qatar, and Honorary Lecturer at UCL. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University, an MA in Cultural and Social Anthropology from Stanford University, an MA in Principles of Conservation from UCL, and a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Her areas of research include ethnographic heritage, critical heritage studies and risk, the construction of Islamic materiality, and cosmopolitanism and the vernacularization of discourses and expertise. Her recent work focuses on the construction and operation of vulnerability in cultural heritage discourses and methods in Indonesia, and the mobilization of Islamic values in heritage making in Indonesia and the Arabian Peninsula. She is co-editor of Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage (University Press of Colorado, 2015) and Cultural Heritage in the Arabian Peninsula (Ashgate, 2014).

• List of IllustrationsPrefaceIntroduction: The Problem with DestructionFrom destruction to constructionStructure of this volume1. Khas AcehView from the deck of the tsunami shipHeritage as history or heritage as witness2. Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami CityFrom Serambbi Mekkah to ‘tsunami city’Heritage historyAnti-heritage historyDisaster legacies3. The Construction of DestructionRisk cartographiesHeritage and destructionRisk valueAsia ‘at risk’Indonesian heritage4. An Ethnography of ‘Heritage at Risk’Heritage ethnographyRuins and ruinersTrue waterIslamization of catastropheTime and timeliness5. Destruction AlternativesReclaiming post-heritageSituating vernacular subjectsHeritage alterity: theory vs. practiceEpilogue: ‘Then and Now’Notes and ReferencesIndexAbout the Author