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Contested Cultural Heritage

Religion, Nationalism, Erasure, and Exclusion in a Global World

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  • © 2011

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Editors:
  1. Helaine Silverman

    1. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

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  • Addresses a growing area of concern in heritage management

  • Showcases an international group of sites that have been contested

  • Will be of interest to institutions such as World Monuments Fund and Global Heritage Fund, UNESCO, ICOMOS and ICAHM

  • Includes supplementary material: sn.pub/extras

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-ix
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  2. Contested Cultural Heritage: A Selective Historiography

    • Helaine Silverman
    Pages 1-49

  3. The Stratigraphy of Forgetting: The Great Mosque of Cordoba and Its Contested Legacy

    • D. Fairchild Ruggles
    Pages 51-67

  4. Aestheticized Geographies of Conflict: The Politicization of Culture and the Culture of Politics in Belfast’s Mural Tradition

    • Alexandra Hartnett
    Pages 69-107

  5. Blood of Our Ancestors: Cultural Heritage Management in the Balkans

    • Michael L. Galaty
    Pages 109-124

  6. Re-imagining the National Past: Negotiating the Roles of Science, Religion, and History in Contemporary British Ghost Tourism

    • Michele M. Hanks
    Pages 125-139

  7. Collecting and Repatriating Egypt’s Past: Toward a New Nationalism

    • Salima Ikram
    Pages 141-154

  8. National Identity Interrupted: The Mutilation of the Parthenon Marbles and the Greek Claim for Repatriation

    • Vasiliki Kynourgiopoulou
    Pages 155-170

  9. Syrian National Museums: Regional Politics and the Imagined Community

    • Kari A. Zobler
    Pages 171-191

  10. Contestation from the Top: Fascism in the Realm of Culture and Italy’s Conception of the Past

    • Alvaro Higueras
    Pages 193-204

  11. Touring the Slave Route: Inaccurate Authenticities in Bénin, West Africa

    • Timothy R. Landry
    Pages 205-231

  12. Carving the Nation: Zimbabwean Sculptors and the Contested Heritage of Aesthetics

    • Lance L. Larkin
    Pages 233-259

  13. Afterword: El Pilar and Maya Cultural Heritage: Reflections of a Cheerful Pessimist

    • Anabel Ford
    Pages 261-265

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 267-286
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About this book

Cultural heritage is material – tangible and intangible – that signifies a culture’s history or legacy. It has become a venue for contestation, ranging in scale from protesting to violently claimed and destroyed. But who defines what is to be preserved and what is to be erased? As cultural heritage becomes increasingly significant across the world, the number of issues for critical analysis and, hopefully, mediation, arise. The issue stems from various groups: religious, ethnic, national, political, and others come together to claim, appropriate, use, exclude, or erase markers and manifestations of their own and others’ cultural heritage as a means for asserting, defending, or denying critical claims to power, land, and legitimacy. Can cultural heritage be well managed and promoted while at the same time kept within parameters so as to diminish contestation? The cases herein rage from Greece, Spain, Egypt, the UK, Syria, Zimbabwe, Italy, the Balkans, Bénin, and Central America.

Editors and Affiliations

  • Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois, Urbana, USA

    Helaine Silverman

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: Contested Cultural Heritage

  • Book Subtitle: Religion, Nationalism, Erasure, and Exclusion in a Global World

  • Editors: Helaine Silverman

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-7305-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

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

  • Copyright Information: Springer Science+Business Media, LLC 2011

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-1-4419-7304-7Published: 10 November 2010

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4899-9559-9Published: 07 October 2014

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4419-7305-4Published: 02 November 2010

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: IX, 286

  • Topics: Archaeology, Cultural Heritage

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