ISBN:
9781785330926
Language:
Undetermined
Pages:
336 p.
Edition:
1st edition
Series Statement:
EASA Series 28
Keywords:
General Anthropology
Abstract:
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of the UNESCO heritage regime. This book shows how local and national circumstances interact with the global institutional framework in complex and unexpected ways. Often, the communities around World Heritage sites are constrained by these heritage regimes rather than empowered by them.
Description / Table of Contents:
List of Illustrations -- Introduction: UNESCO World Heritage – Grounded? -- Christoph Brumann and David Berliner -- PART I: CITIES -- Chapter 1. Affects and Senses in a World Heritage Site: People–House Relations in the Medina of Fez -- Manon Istasse -- Chapter 2. 'UNESCO is What?' World Heritage, Militant Islam and the Search for a Common Humanity in Mali -- Charlotte Joy -- Chapter 3. Heritage-making in Lijiang: Governance, Reconstruction and Local Naxi Life -- Yujie Zhu -- Chapter 4. Multiple Nostalgias: The Fabric of Heritage in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR) -- David Berliner -- PART II: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES -- Chapter 5. Thinking Globally and Acting Locally in the Angkor World Heritage Site -- Keiko Miura -- Chapter 6. One List, a World of Difference? The Dynamics of Global Heritage at Two Neighbouring Properties -- Noel B. Salazar -- Chapter 7. Civilization and the Transformation of Xiaotun Village at Yin Xu Archaeological Site, China -- Shu-Li Wang -- Chapter 8. The Business of Wonder: Public Meets Private at the World Heritage Site of Chichén Itzá -- Lisa Breglia -- PART III: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES -- Chapter 9. Decolonizing the Site: The Problems and Pragmatics of World Heritage in Italy, Libya and Tanzania -- Jasper Chalcraft -- Chapter 10. The Values of Exchange and the Issue of Control: Living with (World) Heritage in Osogbo, Nigeria -- Peter Probst -- Chapter 11. Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape: Extractive Economies and Endangerment on South Africa's Borders -- Lynn Meskell -- CODA -- Conclusion: Imagining the Ground from Afar: Why the Sites are so Remote in World Heritage Committee Sessions -- Christoph Brumann --
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