UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series – serie
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28 produkter
Mundane Objects
Materiality and Non-verbal Communication
Häftad, 2013
665 kr
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This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users. This volume demonstrates the role of these objects in nonverbal communication, both in …
Stones Standing
Archaeology, Colonialism, and Ecotourism in Northern Laos
Av Anna Källén
Häftad, 2023
620 kr
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This book is an inquiry into the relationships between archaeology, colonialism and ecotourism at the famous standing stones of Hintang, Laos. It investigates the conditions under which archaeological knowledge has been produced, appropriated, contested, commodified, and consumed by colonialism …
Profane Egyptologists
The Modern Revival of Ancient Egyptian Religion
Häftad, 2019
704 kr
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It is widely believed that the practice of ancient Egyptian religion ceased with the end of pharaonic culture and the rise of Christianity. However, an organised reconstruction and revival of the authentic practice of Egyptian, or Kemetic religion has been growing, almost undocumented, for nearly …
Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past
Inbunden, 2019
2578 kr
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Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past critically examines the production, consumption, and interpretation of photography across various heritage domains, from global image archives to the domestic arena of the family album. Through original ethnographic and archival research, the book sheds …
Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past
Häftad, 2021
725 kr
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Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past critically examines the production, consumption, and interpretation of photography across various heritage domains, from global image archives to the domestic arena of the family album. Through original ethnographic and archival research, the book sheds …
Profane Egyptologists
The Modern Revival of Ancient Egyptian Religion
Inbunden, 2017
2504 kr
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It is widely believed that the practice of ancient Egyptian religion ceased with the end of pharaonic culture and the rise of Christianity. However, an organised reconstruction and revival of the authentic practice of Egyptian, or Kemetic religion has been growing, almost undocumented, for nearly …
Constructing Destruction
Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City
Häftad, 2018
770 kr
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Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of processes to counter that risk. Trinidad Rico’s critical ethnography analyses heritage practices in the aftermath of the tsunami that swamped Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in 2004 and the …
Return to Alexandria
An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Revivalism and Museum Memory
Inbunden, 2007
2468 kr
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina was launched with great fanfare in the 1990s, a project of UNESCO and the Egyptian government to recreate the glory of the Alexandria Library and Museion of the ancient world. The project and its timing were curious—it coincided with scholarship moving away from the …
Return to Alexandria
An Ethnography of Cultural Heritage Revivalism and Museum Memory
Häftad, 2007
636 kr
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The Bibliotheca Alexandrina was launched with great fanfare in the 1990s, a project of UNESCO and the Egyptian government to recreate the glory of the Alexandria Library and Museion of the ancient world. The project and its timing were curious—it coincided with scholarship moving away from the …
Reclaiming Heritage
Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa
Av Ferdinand de Jong, Michael Rowlands
Inbunden, 2008
2468 kr
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Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programs build monuments to reinforce in nation building efforts—often supported by international organizations and tourist dollars. These efforts often ignore the other, often more troubling memories …
Reclaiming Heritage
Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa
Av Ferdinand de Jong, Michael Rowlands
Häftad, 2009
665 kr
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Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programs build monuments to reinforce in nation building efforts—often supported by international organizations and tourist dollars. These efforts often ignore the other, often more troubling memories …
Decolonizing Conservation
Caring for Maori Meeting Houses outside New Zealand
Av Dean Sully
Inbunden, 2008
2504 kr
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This book argues for an important shift in cultural heritage conservation, away from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric of material culture toward the impact that conservation work has on people’s lives. In doing so, it challenges the commodification of sacred objects and places by western …
Decolonizing Conservation
Caring for Maori Meeting Houses outside New Zealand
Av Dean Sully
Häftad, 2008
762 kr
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This book argues for an important shift in cultural heritage conservation, away from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric of material culture toward the impact that conservation work has on people’s lives. In doing so, it challenges the commodification of sacred objects and places by western …
Empire and Local Worlds
A Chinese Model for Long-Term Historical Anthropology
Inbunden, 2009
2504 kr
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Mingming Wang, one of the most prolific anthropologists in China, has produced a work both of long-term historical anthropology and of broad social theory. In it, he traces almost a millennium of history of the southern Chinese city of Quangzhou, a major international trading entrepot in the 13th …
Empire and Local Worlds
A Chinese Model for Long-Term Historical Anthropology
Häftad, 2009
704 kr
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Mingming Wang, one of the most prolific anthropologists in China, has produced a work both of long-term historical anthropology and of broad social theory. In it, he traces almost a millennium of history of the southern Chinese city of Quangzhou, a major international trading entrepot in the 13th …
African Homecoming
Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage
Inbunden, 2010
2504 kr
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African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly “come home” to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this nuanced analysis of homecoming, Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan-)African family is produced among …
African Homecoming
Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage
Häftad, 2010
646 kr
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African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly “come home” to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this nuanced analysis of homecoming, Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan-)African family is produced among …
Exhuming Loss
Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War
Inbunden, 2011
2818 kr
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This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in two small rural communities as they undergo the experience of exhumation, identification, and reburial from nearby mass graves. Based on interviews with relatives of the dead, community …
Exhuming Loss
Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War
Häftad, 2011
785 kr
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This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in two small rural communities as they undergo the experience of exhumation, identification, and reburial from nearby mass graves. Based on interviews with relatives of the dead, community …
Mundane Objects
Materiality and Non-verbal Communication
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users. This volume demonstrates the role of these objects in nonverbal communication, both in …
Politics of Heritage Management in Mali
From UNESCO to Djenné
Inbunden, 2012
2578 kr
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The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Djenné, in modern day Mali, is exalted as an enduring wonder of the ancient African world by archaeologists, anthropologists, state officials, architects and travel writers. In this revealing study, the author critically examines how the politics of heritage …
Politics of Heritage Management in Mali
From UNESCO to Djenné
Häftad, 2013
725 kr
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The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Djenné, in modern day Mali, is exalted as an enduring wonder of the ancient African world by archaeologists, anthropologists, state officials, architects and travel writers. In this revealing study, the author critically examines how the politics of heritage …
Translating Museums
A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology
Inbunden, 2012
2697 kr
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Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum. Bhatti thus presents an alternative example of visitor experience and museum practice to that of the West, which has been the …
Translating Museums
A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology
Häftad, 2012
751 kr
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Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum. Bhatti thus presents an alternative example of visitor experience and museum practice to that of the West, which has been the …
Intangible Heritage and the Museum
New Perspectives on Cultural Preservation
Inbunden, 2012
2504 kr
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In this comparative, international study Marilena Alivizatou investigates the relationship between museums and the new concept of “intangible heritage.” She charts the rise of intangible heritage within the global sphere of UN cultural policy and explores its implications both in terms of …
Intangible Heritage and the Museum
New Perspectives on Cultural Preservation
Häftad, 2012
646 kr
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In this comparative, international study Marilena Alivizatou investigates the relationship between museums and the new concept of “intangible heritage.” She charts the rise of intangible heritage within the global sphere of UN cultural policy and explores its implications both in terms of …
Stones Standing
Archaeology, Colonialism, and Ecotourism in Northern Laos
Av Anna Källén
Inbunden, 2015
5,0 utav 5 stjärnor. Totalt antal röster: (1)
785 kr
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This book is an inquiry into the relationships between archaeology, colonialism and ecotourism at the famous standing stones of Hintang, Laos. It investigates the conditions under which archaeological knowledge has been produced, appropriated, contested, commodified, and consumed by colonialism …
Constructing Destruction
Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City
Inbunden, 2016
1562 kr
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Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of processes to counter that risk. Trinidad Rico’s critical ethnography analyses heritage practices in the aftermath of the tsunami that swamped Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in 2004 and the …
