Understanding Heritage and Memory

Written by an interdisciplinary team of scholars, this authoritative text explores the emotive issues surrounding the commemoration of war and atrocity, and the profound challenges for conservators posed by virtual, intangible and multicultural heritage. New international case studies demonstrate that while interest in the memorialization of the great national upheavals of the last century has never been more acute, many of the problems of conserving the past in diverse and disparate societies remain to be resolved. Aimed primarily at students in heritage studies and professionals in heritage industries, this is book one of three in the Understanding Global Heritage series.

Tim Benton is Professor of Art History at The Open University.

List of figures * Notes on contributors * Preface * List of abbreviations * Introduction * Heritage and public memory -- Tim Benton and Clementine Cecil * The heritage of public commemoration -- Tim Benton and Penelope Curtis * Contentious heritage -- Karl Hack * Heritage and changes of regime -- Tim Benton * Multicultural and minority heritage -- Rodney Harrison * Heritage, landscape and memory -- Susie West and Sabelo Ndlovu * Intangible heritage -- Rodney Harrison and Deborah Rose * Heritage and the recent and contemporary past -- Rebecca Ferguson, Rodney Harrison and Daniel Weinbren * Glossary * Acknowledgements * Index