Uses of Heritage,9780415318303

Uses of Heritage

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Edition: 1st
ISBN13: 9780415318303
ISBN10: 0415318300
Format: Hardcover
Pub. Date: 2006-10-31
Publisher(s): Routledge
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Summary

Heritage value is too often seen as self-evident -- things must be preserved and treasured because they have an inherent importance. Laurajane Smith challenges this idea. She demonstrates forcefully that heritage value is not inherent in physical objects or places, rather these objects and places are used to give tangibility to the values that underpin different communities, and then to assert and affirm these values for a range of reasons. She identifies and explores the various uses to which heritage is put in a series of case studies from around the world, including the USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand. The result is a practically-grounded, accessible theorzation of heritage as a cultural practice.

Author Biography

Laurajane Smith is a Senior Lecturer in Cultural Heritage Studies and Archaeology at the University of York.

Table of Contents

List of figures
x
List of tables
xi
Acknowledgements xiii
Introduction 1(8)
PART I The idea of heritage
9(76)
The discourse of heritage
11(33)
There is no such thing as `heritage'
13(3)
When was heritage?
16(13)
The authorized heritage discourse and its use
29(6)
Subaltern and dissenting heritage discourses
35(7)
Conclusion
42(2)
Heritage as a cultural process
44(41)
Heritage as experience
45(3)
Heritage as identity
48(5)
The intangibility of heritage
53(4)
Memory and remembering
57(9)
Heritage as performance
66(8)
Place
74(6)
Dissonance
80(2)
Conclusion
82(3)
PART II Authorized heritage
85(108)
Authorizing institutions of heritage
87(28)
Venice Charter
88(7)
World Heritage Convention
95(7)
Burra Charter
102(4)
Intangible heritage
106(7)
Conclusion
113(2)
The `manored' past: The banality of grandiloquence
115(47)
The country house as authorized heritage
117(12)
Knowing your place: Performing identities at the country house
129(29)
Conclusion
158(4)
Fellas, fossils and country: The Riversleigh landscape
162(31)
Riversleigh World Heritage Site
163(5)
The Australian landscape as authorized cultural heritage
168(5)
The Riversleigh sense of place
173(18)
Conclusion
191(2)
PART III Responses to authorized heritage
193(106)
Labour heritage: Performing and remembering
195(42)
Museums and heritage
197(10)
`Better rememberings from here': Remembering and the negotiation of social meaning and identity
207(27)
Conclusion
234(3)
The slate wiped clean? Heritage, memory and landscape in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England
237(39)
History and place
240(7)
`But Miss, what's the black lump?' Memory and heritage in Castleford
247(18)
Performance, remembering and commemoration: Heritage as community networking
265(7)
Conclusion
272(4)
`The issue is control': Indigenous politics and the discourse of heritage
276(23)
The history of Indigenous critique -- or why the control of heritage matters
277(6)
Cultural differences and discursive barriers
283(4)
Controlling heritage
287(10)
Conclusion
297(2)
Conclusion 299(10)
Notes 309(3)
References 312(30)
Index 342

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