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Between the Devil and the Deep

Meeting Challenges in the Public Interpretation of Maritime Cultural Heritage

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Editors:
  1. Della A. Scott-Ireton

    1. Florida Public Archaeology Network, Pensacola, USA

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  • Imparts cutting-edge interpretation and public engagement strategies for maritime resources
  • Includes specific strategies for overcoming problems to enable public access in difficult sites
  • Case studies presented serve as models for resource managers, archaeologists and administrators

Part of the book series: When the Land Meets the Sea (ACUA, volume 5)

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Table of contents (18 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xii
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  2. Challenges in Public Access and Engagement

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 1-1
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    2. Toward Multivocality in Public Archaeology: Public Empowerment Through Collaboration

      • John H. Jameson Jr.
      Pages 3-10

    3. Connecting the Wrecks: A Case Study in Conveying the Importance of Submerged Cultural Heritage Through a Scaled Outreach Approach

      • Alexis Catsambis, Kate Morrand
      Pages 11-25

    4. Out of Sight, Out of Mind and at Risk: The United Kingdom Public’s Engagement with Heritage

      • Christopher J. Underwood
      Pages 27-42

    5. Connecting People to the Past: An Ethnographic Approach to Maritime Heritage Interpretation and Recreation

      • Irina T. Sorset
      Pages 43-54

    6. Management of Submerged Cultural Heritage: Public Outreach Examples as a Result of the Section 106 Process

      • Christopher Horrell
      Pages 55-62

    7. Shifting Sand: A Model for Facilitating Public Assistance in Coastal Archaeology

      • Justin J. Bensley, Victor T. Mastone
      Pages 63-72

    8. “Public” and “the Public” in Italian Underwater Archaeology: A Sardinian Perspective

      • Massimiliano Secci
      Pages 73-84

    9. The Success of the South Carolina Sport Diver Archaeology Management Program

      • Ashley M. Deming
      Pages 85-95

    10. Maritime Heritage Outreach and Education: East Carolina University’s Engagement with International Public Communities in Africa and the Caribbean

      • Lynn Harris
      Pages 97-107

    11. The Florida Panhandle Shipwreck Trail: Promoting Heritage Tourism in the Digital Age

      • Lindsay S. Smith
      Pages 109-118

    12. Sailing the SSEAS: A New Program for Public Engagement in Underwater Archaeology

      • Della A. Scott-Ireton
      Pages 119-128

  3. Interpreting Challenging Sites

    1. Front Matter

      Pages 129-129
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    2. No Visibility, No Artifacts, No Problem? Challenges Associated with Presenting Buried Sites and Inaccessible Shipwrecks to the Public

      • Amanda M. Evans
      Pages 131-139

    3. A Monumental Distance: Education and Outreach from the Most Remote Archipelago on Earth

      • Kelly Gleason
      Pages 141-153

    4. Interpretation of Maritime Heritage at National Marine Sanctuaries: Using a Maritime Cultural Landscape Approach

      • Bruce G. Terrell
      Pages 155-159

    5. Managing Historic Shipwrecks in Argentina: Challenges to Reach the Public

      • Dolores Elkin
      Pages 161-172

    6. Difficult Heritage: Interpreting Underwater Battlefield Sites

      • Jennifer F. McKinnon
      Pages 173-187

    7. Challenges as Stepping Stones: Mexico’s Experience in Maritime Heritage Interpretation

      • Pilar Luna Erreguerena
      Pages 189-196
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About this book

In creating interpretive strategies for maritime sites, archaeologists and resource managers often are required to think creatively to overcome challenges and problems. These issues include interpreting sites in inaccessible locations and extremely deep water, enabling and controlling access to fragile sites and restricted areas, monitoring visitor behavior, making information interesting to a wide audience, and creating opportunities for public engagement, among other concerns. Meeting Challenges presents cutting-edge interpretation and public education strategies for maritime resources, both on land and underwater, with emphasis on solving the unique problems often associated with presenting these fragile, limited-access sites as heritage attractions and on developing effective visitation and civic engagement opportunities. The examples presented ideally can serve as models for resource managers, archaeologists engaged in interpretation, and site administrators. This volume brings together a diverse group of heritage professionals to discuss issues they’ve encountered and to present ideas and case studies for adapting, improvising, and overcoming them.

Reviews

From the book reviews:

“This volume … is an essential read for anyone involved in communicating heritage within a maritime context to the public. … Between the Devil and the Deep makes a useful contribution to the study and analysis of public heritage initiatives within the maritime context. … a good basis for people who are faced with presenting maritime heritage to the public for the first time and gives guidance to those navigating between pride in a project and institutional government policies.” (Danielle Newman, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology, Vol. 44 (1), 2015)

Editors and Affiliations

  • Florida Public Archaeology Network, Pensacola, USA

    Della A. Scott-Ireton

About the editor

Della A. Scott-Ireton is Associate Director of the Florida Public Archaeology Network at the University of West Florida in Pensacola, specializing in maritime and public archaeology. Dr Scott-Ireton has served on the boards of the Advisory Council on Underwater Archaeology and the Society for Historical Archaeology, and as a member of the Marine Protected Areas Federal Advisory Committee. She is co-editor of two other works on public education in maritime archaeology, Out of the Blue: Public Interpretation of Maritime Cultural Resources with John H. Jameson, Jr. and Submerged Cultural Resource Management: Preserving and Interpreting Our Sunken Maritime Heritage with James D. Spirek, both from Springer.

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Between the Devil and the Deep

  • Book Subtitle: Meeting Challenges in the Public Interpretation of Maritime Cultural Heritage

  • Editors: Della A. Scott-Ireton

  • Series Title: When the Land Meets the Sea

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4614-8178-2

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Humanities, Social Sciences and Law, Social Sciences (R0)

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media New York 2014

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4614-8177-5Published: 22 August 2013

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4939-0203-3Published: 26 August 2015

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4614-8178-2Published: 23 August 2013

  • Series ISSN: 1869-6783

  • Series E-ISSN: 1869-6791

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 214

  • Topics: Archaeology, Cultural Heritage

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