Cultural Heritage Management

A Global Perspective
Erscheinungsjahr 2014
ISBN: 978-0-8130-6085-9
Verlag: University Press of Florida

Buch, Englisch, 336 Seiten, Paperback, Format (B × H): 155 mm x 235 mm

Reihe: Cultural Heritage Studies

Even as places and objects that have particular cultural significance are increasingly valued in our global world, powerful forces threaten them with destruction. Cultural Heritage Management discusses the efforts of a broad range of contributors devoted to safeguarding our cultural heritage.

Editors Phyllis Mauch Messenger and George Smith have brought together an international group of contributors, featuring archaeologists, anthropologists, development specialists, and others engaged in the study, management, protection, and interpretation of places and objects that represent histories, traditions, and cultural identities.

From international law to artifact preservation to site interpretation, there is a wide variety of approaches to the management of our cultural heritage. Combining the voices of scholars and practitioners, the book provides a much-needed diversity of voices and perspectives from people steeped in the issues that directly affect the future of the past.

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Über Autor(innen)

Phyllis Mauch Messenger, editor of The Ethics of Collecting Cultural Property, serves as grants consultant for the Institute for Advanced Study at the University of Minnesota, USA and was the founding director of the Center for Anthropology and Cultural Heritage Education at Hamline University, USA.

George S. Smith recently retired as associate director of the Southeast Archaeological Center, USA. Together, with Hilary A. Soderland, they serve as cochairs of the Heritage Values Interest Group of the Society for American Archaeology. He is coeditor of Heritage Values in Contemporary Society.