Mundane Objects

Pierre Lemonnier

• Paperback | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems... Lees meer

Empire and Local Worlds

Mingming Wang

• Hardcover | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• Mingming Wang, one of the most prolific anthropologists in China, has produced a work both of long-term historical anthropology and of broad social th... Lees meer

The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali

Charlotte L Joy

• Hardcover | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Djenné, in modern day Mali, is exalted as an enduring wonder of the ancient African world by archaeologists, anthrop... Lees meer

Constructing Destruction

Trinidad Rico

• Paperback | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of processes to counter that risk. Tri... Lees meer

Reclaiming Heritage

• Paperback | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programs build monuments to reinforce in nation buil... Lees meer

The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali

Charlotte L Joy

• Paperback | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Djenné, in modern day Mali, is exalted as an enduring wonder of the ancient African world by archaeologists, anthrop... Lees meer

Mundane Objects

Pierre Lemonnier

• Hardcover | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems... Lees meer

African Homecoming

Katharina Schramm

• Hardcover | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly "come home" to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved... Lees meer

Exhuming Loss

Layla Renshaw

• Paperback | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in two small rural communities as they un... Lees meer

Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past

Colin Sterling

• Hardcover | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past critically examines the production, consumption, and interpretation of photography across various herita... Lees meer

Decolonizing Conservation

• Hardcover | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• This book argues for an important shift in cultural heritage conservation, away from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric of material culture to... Lees meer

Return to Alexandria

Beverley Butler

• Paperback | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• The Bibliotheca Alexandrina was launched with great fanfare in the 1990s, a project of UNESCO and the Egyptian government to recreate the glory of the... Lees meer

Intangible Heritage and the Museum

Marilena Alivizatou

• Hardcover | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• In this comparative, international study Marilena Alivizatou investigates the relationship between museums and the new concept of "intangible heritage... Lees meer

Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past

Colin Sterling

• Paperback | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past critically examines the production, consumption, and interpretation of photography across various herita... Lees meer

Empire and Local Worlds

Mingming Wang

• Paperback | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• Mingming Wang, one of the most prolific anthropologists in China, has produced a work both of long-term historical anthropology and of broad social th... Lees meer

Reclaiming Heritage

• Hardcover | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programs build monuments to reinforce in nation buil... Lees meer

Decolonizing Conservation

• Paperback | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• This book argues for an important shift in cultural heritage conservation, away from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric of material culture to... Lees meer

Stones Standing

Anna Källén

• Paperback | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• This book is an inquiry into the relationships between archaeology, colonialism and ecotourism at the famous standing stones of Hintang, Laos. It inve... Lees meer

African Homecoming

Katharina Schramm

• Paperback | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly "come home" to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved... Lees meer

Exhuming Loss

Layla Renshaw

• Hardcover | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in two small rural communities as they un... Lees meer

Translating Museums

Shaila Bhatti

• Paperback | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis o... Lees meer

Constructing Destruction

Trinidad Rico

• Hardcover | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of processes to counter that risk. Tri... Lees meer

Profane Egyptologists

Paul Harrison

• Hardcover | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• It is widely believed that the practice of ancient Egyptian religion ceased with the end of pharaonic culture and the rise of Christianity. However, a... Lees meer

Return to Alexandria

Beverley Butler

• Hardcover | Engels | Ucl Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage
• The Bibliotheca Alexandrina was launched with great fanfare in the 1990s, a project of UNESCO and the Egyptian government to recreate the glory of the... Lees meer