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Concise Introduction To Heritage Studies

by Laurajane Smith

~~25,18€~~ 22,66€ 10% OFF

 Our Elgar Concise Introductions are inspiring and considered. They explain the key principles in business and are expertly written by some of the world's leading scholars. The aims of the series are two-fold: to pinpoint essential concepts and to offer insights that stimulate critical thinking.This incisive book elucidates the field of Anglophone heritage studies, outlining its historical development alongside core theoretical debates and research trends. Drawing on her own experiences working as an academic and practitioner in the subject, Laurajane Smith examines how diverse definitions of heritage have influenced international scholarship and preservation practices.Key Features:Documents the emergence of critical heritage studies as a distinct field of inquiry and the implications of this for heritage research and policymakingExplores the social, political and environmental consequences of heritage-making, as well as its applications at different scales and in varied contextsHighlights the multidisciplinary nature of heritage and its importance for understanding topics including identity, memory, authenticity, affect, place and genderThe Concise Introduction to Heritage Studies is an invaluable resource for students and scholars across a wide range of disciplines, including human geography, tourism, sociology, archeology and anthropology. Its insights into how the past affects the present will also benefit practitioners and policymakers in these fields.
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Interpreting Our Heritage

by Freeman Tilden

19,86€ + 10% CARD

 Every year millions of Americans visit national parks and monuments, state and municipal parks, battlefields, historic houses, and museums. By means of guided walks and talks, tours, exhibits, and signs, visitors experience these areas through a very special kind of communication technique known as “interpretation.” For fifty years, Freeman Tilden’s Interpreting Our Heritage has been an indispensable sourcebook for those who are responsible for developing and delivering interpretive programs. This expanded and revised anniversary edition includes not only Tilden’s classic work but also an entirely new selection of accompanying photographs, five additional essays by Tilden on the art and craft of interpretation, a new foreword by former National Park Service director Russell Dickenson, and an introduction by R. Bruce Craig that puts Tilden’s writings into perspective for present and future generations. Whether the challenge is to make a prehistoric site come to life; to explain the geological basis behind a particular rock formation; to touch the hearts and minds of visitors to battlefields, historic homes, and sites; or to teach a child about the wonders of the natural world, Tilden’s book, with its explanation of the famed “six principles” of interpretation, provides a guiding hand. For anyone interested in our natural and historic heritage — park volunteers and rangers, museum docents and educators, new and seasoned professional heritage interpreters, and those lovingly characterized by Tilden as “happy amateurs” — Interpreting Our Heritage and Tilden’s later interpretive writings, included in this edition, collectively provide the essential foundation for bringing into focus the truths that lie beyond what the eye sees.
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Confessions Of Monuments - Commemorating And Representing The Turkish Nation-State In The Early Twentieth Century

by Artun Ozguner e Emin Artun Ozguner

~~129,65€~~ 116,69€ 10% OFF

 This book examines the role of artefacts and design practice in representing and commemorating a new political community of Turks within the cultural transformation from empire to nation-state between 1908-50s. It offers an expanded understanding of nation-building within global, public as well as top-down official agencies. -- .
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Radical Democratic Museum

by Nora Sternfeld

~~52,99€~~ 47,69€ 10% OFF

 In this revised and updated translation of Das Radikaldemokratische Museum, Sternfeld offers a timely critique of museums as they exist today and instead calls for museums to be reconceptualised as contested spaces for debate and new forms of political activism.
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Heritage, Creativity And Innovation Nexus - Critical Approaches And Interdisciplinary Perspectives

~~60,94€~~ 54,85€ 10% OFF

 The Heritage, Creativity and Innovation Nexus: Critical Approaches and Interdisciplinary Perspectives explores the central role that innovation and creativity play in contemporary heritage practices.
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Intangible Cultural Heritage And Traditional Medical Knowledge - Safeguarding Healing And Medical Practices In A Globalized World

~~60,94€~~ 54,85€ 10% OFF

 This compelling volume addresses key issues at the critical intersection of intangible cultural heritage and traditional medical practices, highlighting the urgent need for their preservation in an increasingly globalized world.
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Cultural Tourism

by Bob Mckercher, Chin Ee Ong e Hilary Du Cros

~~74,19€~~ 66,77€ 10% OFF

 Cultural tourism remains the only book to bridge the gap between cultural tourism and arts/heritage management. Previous editions explored how heritage and tourism goals can be integrated in a management and marketing framework to produce sustainable cultural tourism.
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Contested Heritage - Global Perspectives On Stakeholders' (Dis)Harmony At Heritage Locales

~~55,64€~~ 50,08€ 10% OFF

 Contested Heritage: Global Perspectives on Stakeholders' (Dis)Harmony at Heritage Locales explores the intricate relationships surrounding heritage, emphasizing the diverse, often contradictory, meanings attributed to heritage sites, historic towns and museum objects by various stakeholders.
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Routledge Handbook Of Heritage Ethics

~~324,63€~~ 292,17€ 10% OFF

 The Routledge Handbook of Heritage Ethics offers a comprehensive and rigorous analysis of the concepts, challenges and dilemmas that characterise and shape contemporary heritage ethics in theory and practice.
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Sovereign Heritage Crime - Security, Autocracy, And The Material Past

by Simon Maghakyan

~~23,85€~~ 21,47€ 10% OFF

 Sovereign Heritage Crime: Security, Autocracy, and the Material Past explores why autocracies intentionally exacerbate anxieties associated with an aggrieved ethnoterritorial minority's tangible heritage. This title is also available as open access on Cambridge Core.
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Applied Interpretation - Putting Research Into Practice

by Doug Knapp

27,16€ + 10% CARD

 Applied Interpretation: Putting Research into Practice offers practitioners, managers, and students of interpretation a source for interpretive theory, techniques, strategies, and experiences that have been shown, through research, to be successful in conveying interpretive messages. This resource is the product of 16 years of research that has evaluated traditional programs, school field trips, and visitor center and campfire programs. The findings, offered through vignettes and case studies, are the product of long-term assessments that range from three months to three years following an interpretive experience.
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The Long Way Home - The Meaning And Values Of Repatriation

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 Indigenous peoples have long sought the return of ancestral human remains and associated artifacts from western museums and scientific institutions. Since the late 1970s their efforts have led museum curators and researchers to re-evaluate their practices and policies in respect to the scientific uses of human remains. New partnerships have been established between cultural and scientific institutions and indigenous communities. Human remains and culturally significant objects have been returned to the care of indigenous communities, although the fate of bones and burial artifacts in numerous collections remains unresolved and, in some instances, the subject of controversy. In this book, leading researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences reflect critically on the historical, cultural, ethical and scientific dimensions of repatriation. Through various case studies they consider the impact of repatriation: what have been the benefits, and in what ways has repatriation given rise to new problems for indigenous people, scientists and museum personnel. It features chapters by indigenous knowledge custodians, who reflect upon recent debates and interaction between indigenous people and researchers in disciplines with direct interests in the continued scientific preservation of human remains. In this book, leading researchers from a wide range of disciplines in the humanities and social sciences reflect critically on the historical, cultural, ethical and scientific dimensions of repatriation. Through various case studies they consider the impact of repatriation: what have been the benefits, and in what ways has repatriation given rise to new problems for indigenous people, scientists and museum personnel. It features chapters by indigenous knowledge custodians, who reflect upon recent debates and interaction between indigenous people and researchers in disciplines with direct interests in the continued scientific preservation of human remains.
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Museum Websites And Social Media - Issues Of Participation, Sustainability, Trust And Diversity

by Ana Sanchez Laws

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 Online activities present a unique challenge for museums as they harness the potential of digital technology for sustainable development, trust building, and representations of diversity. This volume provides insight into the issues behind designing and implementing web pages and social media to serve the broadest range of museum stakeholders.
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World Heritage On The Ground - Ethnographic Perspectives

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 The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 is a key arena for contemporary cultural and natural conservation. In case studies from across the globe, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of this heritage regime.
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Sensitive Pasts - Questioning Heritage In Education

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 Combination of heritage studies and history education Application of critical historical thinking to the use of heritage in educational settings Pedagogical dealings with sensitive topics of the past (transatlantic slave trade; Holocaust)
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Visitors To The House Of Memory - Identity And Political Education At The Jewish Museum Berlin

by Victoria Bishop Kendzia

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 By accompanying a range of senior high school history students before, during and after their visits to the museum, Visitors to the House of Memory is an intimate exploration of how young Berliners from across the city experience the Jewish Museum Berlin.
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The Man Who Invented Aztec Crystal Skulls - The Adventures Of Eugène Boban

by Brett Topping e Jane Maclaren Walsh

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 Detailed are the travels, self-education, and archaeological explorations of Eugene Boban, an expert in the field of pre-Columbian studies and explores the circumstances that allowed him to sell fakes to museums that would remain undetected for over a century.
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Views Of Violence - Representing The Second World War In German And European Museums And Memorials

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 The modern vision of historical violence has been immeasurably influenced by cultural representations of the Second World War. This volume takes a historical perspective on World War II museums and explores how these institutions came to define the broader European, and even global, political contexts and cultures of public memory.
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Politics Of Scale - New Directions In Critical Heritage Studies

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 Politics of Scale offers a global, multi- and interdisciplinary point of view to the scaled nature of heritage, and provides a theoretical discussion on scale as a social construct and a method in Critical Heritage Studies.
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Playing With The Past - Exploring Values In Heritage Practice

by Kate Clark

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 Values in Heritage Practice is designed to make the case for heritage. It is the first ever action learning book about heritage. Eighty different activities and games encompass the basics of heritage management. Although designed to `train the trainers,' the activities in the book are relevant to any group involved in caring for heritage
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Walls And Gateways - Contested Heritage In Dubrovnik

by Celine Motzfeldt Loades

30,41€ + 10% CARD

 The book analyses how representations, perceptions and uses of Dubrovnik's heritage are embedded in particular social and political structural conditions, cultural practices, materiality and place.
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Museum, Place, Architecture And Narrative - Nordic Maritime Museums' Portrayals Of Shipping, Seafarers And Maritime Communities

by Annika Bünz

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a contemporary and/or historical environment from which the collections and narratives originate. This volume unravels the kinds of worlds and realities the Nordic maritime museums stage...
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Museum Times - Changing Histories In South Africa

by Leslie Witz

26,43€ + 10% CARD

 Museums flourished in post-apartheid South Africa. In older museums, there were renovations on the go, and at least fifty new museums opened. Most sought to depict violence and suffering under apartheid and the growth of resistance. These unlikely journeys are tracked as museums became a primary setting for contesting histories.
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Experiencing Materiality - Museum Perspectives

by Valentina Gamberi

23,78€ + 10% CARD

 This study highlights the contradictions of museum practices and, at the same time, the potentialities that contemporary museums could offer for an engaging relationship between visitors and museum artefacts and for rethinking or, better, 'softening' specific approaches in material culture studies.
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