The Routledge Research Companion to Heritage

Heritage represents the meanings and representations conveyed in the present day upon artefacts, landscapes, mythologies, memories and traditions from the past. It is a key element in the shaping of identities, particularly in the context of increasingly multicultural societies. This Research Companion brings together an international team of authors to discuss the concepts, ideas and practices that inform the entwining of heritage and identity. They have assembled a wide geographical range of examples and interpret them through a number of disciplinary lenses that include geography, history, museum and heritage studies, archaeology, art history, history, anthropology and media studies. This outstanding companion offers scholars and graduate students a thoroughly up-to-date guide to current thinking and a comprehensive reference to this growing field.

Introduction: heritage and identity
The Context of Heritage and Identity
The history of heritage
Heritage, memory and identity
Personal and public histories: issues in the presentation of the past
Markers of Heritage and Identity
'Natural' landscapes in the representation of national identity
Heritage and 'race'
'We are here, yet we are not here': the heritage of excluded groups
The contestation of heritage: the enduring importance of religion
Heritage from below: class, social protest and resistance
Heritage, gender and identity
Practices of Heritage and Identity
The communication of heritage: creating place identities
Place, naming and the interpretation of cultural landscapes
Commemoration of war
The memorialization of violence and tragedy: human trauma as heritage
Conservation and restoration in built heritage: a Western European perspective
Heritage tourism: conflicting identities in the modern world
Museums and the representation of identity
The Challenges of a Postmodern and Post-colonial World
Plural and multicultural heritages
Heritage transformation in Central and Eastern Europe
The heritage of post-colonial societies
The contestation of heritage: the colonizer and the colonized in Australia
The heritage of mundane places
New museologies and the ecomuseum
An exploration of the connections among museums, community and heritage
European landscapes: heritage, participation and local communities
Cultural diversity, heritage and human rights
Index
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