Main entry:

Smith, Laurajane.

Title & Author:

Uses of heritage / Laurajane Smith.

Publication:

London ; New York : Routledge, Taylor & Francis Group, 2006.

Description:

xiv, 351 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm

Notes:
Includes bibliographical references (pages 312-341) and index.
The discourse of heritage -- Heritage as a cultural process -- Authorizing institutions of heritage -- The manored' past: the banality of grandiloquence -- Fellas, fossils and country: the Riversleigh landscape -- Labour heritage: performing and remembering -- The slate wiped clean? Heritage, memory and landscape in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England -- "The issue is control": indigenous politics and the discourse of heritage.

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." http://www.loc.gov/catdir/enhancements/fy0654/2006006564-d.html.

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ISBN:

9780415318310 (pbk.)
0415318319 (pbk. ; alk. paper)
0415318300
9780415318303
9780203602263
0203602269
9780415318319
9781134368037
1134368038

Subject:

Material culture.
Group identity.
Performance art Social aspects.
Material culture Case studies.
Group identity Case studies.
Performance art Social aspects Case studies.
Social Identification
Culture matérielle.
Identité collective.
Art de performance Aspect social.
Culture matérielle Études de cas.
Identité collective Cas, Études de.
Art de performance Aspect social Études de cas.
Identité collective Études de cas.
material culture (discipline)
group identity.
Waanyi people (G23) (Qld SE54-09)
Cultural heritage.
02.00 science and culture in general.
Kulturerbe
Kulturgut
Indigenes Volk
Gruppenidentität
Cultuurgoed.
Theorievorming.
Riversleigh (Qld Far NW Barkly Tableland SE54-13)

Form/genre:

Case Reports
Case studies
Études de cas.

Holdings:

Location: Library main 258392
Call No.: CC135 .S59 2006
Notes: pbk.
Status: Available