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Emotional Heritage

Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites

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Emotional Heritage

Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites

By: Laurajane Smith

Emotional Heritage brings the issues of affect and power in the theorisation of heritage to the fore, whilst also highlighting the affective and political consequences of heritage-making. Drawing on interviews with visitors to museums and heritage sites in the United States, Australia and England, Smith argues that obtaining insights into how visitors use such sites enables us to understand the impact and consequences of professional heritage and museological practices. The concept of registers of engagement is introduced to assess variations in how visitors use museums and sites that address national or dissonant histories and the political consequences of their use. Visitors are revealed as agents in the roles cultural institutions play in maintaining or challenging the political and social status quo. Heritage is, Smith argues, about people and their social situatedness and the meaning they, alongside or in concert with cultural institutions, make and mobilise to help them address social problems and expressions of identity and sense of place in and for the present. Academics, students and practitioners interested in theories of power and affect in museums and heritage sites will find Emotional Heritage to be an invaluable resource. Helping professionals to understand the potential impact of their practice, the book also provides insights into the role visitors play in the interplay between heritage and politics.

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Uses of Heritage

By: Laurajane Smith

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Uses of Heritage

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Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world. Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved, it demonstrates how it gives tangibility to the values that underpin different communities.

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1134368038

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Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage

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Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage

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This is a much-needed survey of how relationships between indigenous peoples and the archaeological establishment have got into difficulties, and a pointer towards how things could move forward.

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Psychology Press

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0415318327

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Heritage, Communities and Archaeology

By: Laurajane Smith,Emma Waterton

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Heritage, Communities and Archaeology

By: Laurajane Smith,Emma Waterton

This book traces the development of 'community archaeology', identifying both its advantages and disadvantages by describing how and why tensions have arisen between archaeological and community understandings of the past. The focus of this book is the conceptual disjunction between heritage and data and the problems this poses for both archaeologists and communities in communicating and engaging with each other. In order to explain the extent of the miscommunication that can occur, the authors examine the ways in which a range of community groups, including communities of expertise, define and negotiate memory and identity. Importantly, they explore the ways in which these expressions are used, or are taken up, in struggles over cultural recognition - and ultimately, the practical, ethical, political and theoretical implications this has for archaeologists engaging in community work. Finally, they argue that there are very real advantages for archaeological research, theory and practice to be gained from engaging with communities.

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147252134X

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Uses of Heritage

By: Laurajane Smith

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Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Laurajane Smith identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world. Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved because they have an inherent importance, Smith forcefully demonstrates that heritage value is not inherent in physical objects or places, but rather that these objects and places are used to give tangibility to the values that underpin different communities and to assert and affirm these values. A practically grounded accessible examination of heritage as a cultural practice, The Uses of Heritage is global in its benefit to students and field professionals alike.

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Heritage, Communities and Archaeology

By: Laurajane Smith,Emma Waterton

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Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage

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Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage

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This is a much-needed survey of how relationships between indigenous peoples and the archaeological establishment have got into difficulties, and a pointer towards how things could move forward.

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Emotional Heritage

Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites

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Visitor Engagement at Museums and Heritage Sites

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Emotional Heritage

Emotional Heritage

Uses of Heritage

Uses of Heritage

Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage

Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage

Heritage, Communities and Archaeology

Heritage, Communities and Archaeology

Uses of Heritage

Uses of Heritage

Heritage, Communities and Archaeology

Heritage, Communities and Archaeology

Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage

Archaeological Theory and the Politics of Cultural Heritage

Emotional Heritage

Emotional Heritage

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