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Uses of heritage / Laurajane Smith.

By: Smith, LaurajaneMaterial type: TextTextPublication details: London ; New York : Routledge, 2006. Description: xiv, 351 p. : ill., maps ; 24 cmISBN: 0415318319 (pbk. : alk. paper); 9780415318310 (pbk. : alk. paper); 0415318300 (hardback : alk. paper); 9780415318303 (hardback : alk. paper)Subject(s): Material culture | Group identity | Performance art -- Social aspects | Material culture -- Case studies | Group identity -- Case studies | Performance art -- Social aspects -- Case studies | Social IdentificationGenre/Form: Case studies | Case studiesDDC classification: 930.1 LOC classification: CC135 | .S59 2006
Contents:
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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Includes bibliographical references (p. 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.

"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.