Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property

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ISBN: 9780415216951 | 0415216958
Cover: Hardcover
Copyright: 10/12/2001

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This work asks whether the idea of world heritage is an essential mechanism for the protection of the world's cultural and natural heritage, or whether it subjugates a diversity of cultural traditions to specifically Western ideas.

List of figures

vii

List of plates

viii

List of tables

List of contributors

Series editors' foreword

Introduction: the destruction and conservation of cultural property

(21)

Robert Layton

Julian Thomas

The uneasy bedfellows: universality and cultural heritage

(8)

Henry Cleere

Should developing countries restore and conserve?

(25)

Patrick Mbunwe-Samba

The end of history? Archaeology and the politics of identity in a globalized world

Bjornar J. Olsen

Return to Alexandria: conflict and contradiction in discourses of origins and heritage revivalism

(20)

Beverley Butler

Renovating Hue (Vietnam): authenticating destruction, reconstructing authenticity

(18)

Mark Johnson

Destruction and conservation of cultural property in Brazil: academic and practical challenges

(9)

Pedro Paulo A. Funari

From museum to mantelpiece: the antiquities trade in the United Kingdom

102

(15)

Kathryn Walker Tubb

Neil Brodie

A note on the Excavations at Ayodhya with reference to the Mandir-Masjid issue

117

(10)

B. B. Lal

The Ayodhya issue

127

(12)

Ram Sharan Sharma

Ayodhya, the print media and communalism

139

(18)

Nandini Rao

C. Rammanohar Reddy

The protection of Croatia's cultural heritage during war 1991-95

157

(11)

Branka Sulc

Challenges and dilemmas facing the reconstruction of war-damaged cultural heritage: the case study of Pocitelj, Bosnia-Herzegovina

168

(14)

Sultan Barakat

Craig Wilson

Vjekoslava Sankovic Simcic

Marija Kojakovic

Immanent or eminent domain? The contest over Thessaloniki's Rotonda

182

(17)

Charles Stewart

The politics of the past: Emain Macha (Navan), Northern Ireland

199

(13)

Barbara Bender

Making news out of archaeological sites: the experience at Ijaye Orile, Nigeria

212

(9)

C. A. Folorunso

The changing use of worship in Roman and medieval Cordoba

221

(15)

John Edwards

The Adriatic Islands Project: monument destruction and protection in the Central Dalmatian Islands

236

(20)

S. Cace

S. Forenbaher

V. Gaffney

J. Hayes

T. Kaiser

B. Kirigin

P. Leach

Z. Stancic

N. Vujnovic

`Pious vandals': restoration or destruction in Sri Lanka?

256

(8)

Gamini Wijesuriya

Destruction or conservation? Some aspects of monument policy in British India (1899-1905)

264

(12)

Nayanjot Lahiri

Use, value and significance in heritage management

276

(10)

Keith Emerick

Is the past a non-renewable resource?

286

(12)

Cornelius J. Holtorf

Cape Town's District Six and the archaeology of memory

298

(15)

Martin Hall

Index

313

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