Contested cultural heritage
Subtitle: religion, nationalism, erasure, and exclusion in a global world
By: Helaine Silverman, editor
Publisher: Springer
Published: 2011
Place of publication: New York; London
Language: eng
Number of pages: 286
ISBN-13: 9781441973047
Subjects: Historic preservation; Political aspects; Cultural property; Cultural policy; Nationalism; Archaeology
Notes: Includes bibliographical references and index.
Table of contents: title: Contested cultural heritage :; title: a selective historiography  -- Helaine Silverman; title: The stratigraphy of forgetting :; title: the Great Mosque of Cordoba and its contested legacy  -- D. Fairchild Ruggles; title: Aestheticized geographies of conflict :; title: the politicization of culture and the culture of politics in Belfast's mural tradition  -- Alexandra Hartnett; title: Blood of our ancestors :; title: cultural heritage management in the Balkans  -- Michael L. Galaty; title: Re-imagining the national past :; title: negotiating the roles of science, religion, and history in contemporary British ghost tourism  -- Michele M. Hanks; title: Collecting and repatriating Egypt's past :; title: toward a new nationalism  -- Salima Ikram; title: National identity interrupted :; title: the mutilation of the Parthenon Marbles and the Greek claim for repatriation  -- Vasiliki Kynourgiopoulou; title: Syrian national museums :; title: regional politics and the imagined community  -- Kari A. Zobler; title: Contestation from the top :; title: Fascism in the realm of culture and Italy's conception of the past  -- Alvaro Higueras; title: Touring the slave route :; title: inaccurate authenticities in Bénin, West Africa  -- Timothy R. Landry; title: Carving the nation :; title: Zimbabwean sculptors and the contested heritage of aesthetics  -- Lance L. Larkin -- Afterword :; title: El Pilar and Maya cultural heritage :; title: reflections of a cheerful pessimist -- Anabel Ford.