Museology and heritage studies Books

Book SynopsisWhat can space tell us about our past? Which stories do memory sites narrate? Which memories do they transmit? And, more importantly, how can we read their meanings? Semiotics can provide us with a homogeneous, shareable and theoretically sound methodology to analyse space within a comparable and common frame of reference for scholars of memory studies and traumatic heritage, as well as for historians, architects and museum curators. The book describes in clear and understandable language the main semiotic concepts that can be used to analyse space, illustrating them with carefully chosen case studies of memory spaces – monuments, museums, post-war urban restoration, filmed and virtual space – in order to show the applicability and efficacy of a semiotic methodology.Table of ContentsFor a Semiotics of Spaces of Memories Practices of Enunciation and Narratives from Monuments to Global Landscapes of Inheritance (Cristina Demaria and Patrizia Violi) 1 Stories that Shape Spatialities Lieu and Milieu de Mémoire through the Lens of Narrativity (Daniele Salerno) 2 Interpretation and Use of Memory How Practices Can Change the Meanings of Monuments (Mario Panico) 3 Uncomfortable Memories of Fascist Italy: The Case of Bigio of Brescia (Anna Maria Lorusso) 4 What Does Fascist Architecture Still Have to Tell Us? Preservation of Contested Heritage as a Strategy of Re-Enunciation and ‘Voice Remodulation’ (Francesco Mazzucchelli) 5 Berlin, the Jewish Museum and the Holocaust Memorial (Isabella Pezzini) 6 Making Space for Memory Collective Enunciation in the Provincial Memory Archive of Córdoba, Argentina (Paola Sozzi) 7 Ruins of War The Green Sea and the Mysterious Island (Gianfranco Marrone) 8 Turning Spaces of Memory into Memoryscapes Cinema as Counter Monument in Jonathan Perel’s El Predio and Tabula Rasa (Cristina Demaria) 9 Voices from the Past: Memories in a Digital Space. The Case of AppRecuerdos in Santiago, Chile (Patrizia Violi) 10 500,000 Dirhams in Scandinavia, from Mobile Silver to Land Rent A Semiotic Analysis ( Manar Hammad) Index Index of names

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Book SynopsisFilm archives are fast spreading around the world, and with them issues surrounding archival digitisation, artistic appropriation, and academic reinterpretation of film material that demand scholarly attention. Exploring Past Images in a Digital Age: Reinventing the Archive aims to fill this demand with a thought-provoking collection of original articles contributed by renowned scholars, archivists, and artists. It urges the reader to “forget” standard ways of thinking about film archives and come to grips with the challenges of analysing and recontextualising an area in transit from the analogue to the digital. The book not only throws light on unexplored issues related to film archives but also introduces unconventional approaches and alternative sources for scholarly research and a vast range of artistic possibilities.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Introduction: The Joys of Forgetting, Reinventing and Coping with the Archive Fever (Nezih Erdo.an and Ebru Kayaalp) New Frontiers? Between Absence and Presence of Archives What Are Film Archives For? (and why we need them to change) or: Adventures in the Archive World (Ian Christie) Viewing The Ottoman Land in Early Travel Films (Peyami Çelikcan) How Social Media Platforms Replace Film Archives When There are No Archives (Serkan .avk) Intersecting Paths of Eveline T. Scott and Traugott Fuchs: How do Private Collections Speak to Us? (Nurçin .leri) The God of Small Films or What You Have Found is not What You Have Lost The Ethics of Appropriation: Found Footage between Archive and Internet (Thomas Elsaesser) The Infra-Ordinary Archive: On the Turkish 8 mm Home Movies (Ege Berensel) Interview with Gustav Deutsch: “Categorisation Limits” (Claudy Op den Kamp) Old Footage, New Meanings. The Case of The Atomic Café (Sibley Labandeira) What the Prints (don’t) Tell Preservation and Resignation: A Study on Survival (Fumiko Tsuneishi) Memory and Trust in a Time of Un-framing the Film Heritage (Nico de Klerk) “Uncontained” Archives of Cinema (Rashmi Devi Sawhney) Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book challenges the museum enterprise in China as a state monopoly and considers it as a new cultural agency that has emerged in the early twenty-first century. Following a constructive and multi-perspectival approach, it discusses the roles of political and cultural-economic agents, museum intermediaries, and museum publics in the interlinked processes of regulation, cultural production and consumption, and the issues of identity and representation faced by the art museums in the Greater Pearl River Delta Region. It broadly traces the art museum from its origin as a tool of nationalism and adoption as a vehicle of modernization in both nationalist and early communist periods, until its role in the present, as it reflects the contested and alternative representations, diverse publics, and fissured identities of the post-economic reform period of China.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements Note on Romanization List of figures, tables and illustrations 1. Introduction 1.1 Rethinking museums in China 1.2 Museums as cultural circuits 1.3 Selection of art museums in the Greater Pearl River Delta region 1.4 Methods 1.5 Book structure 2. Revisiting the historical trajectories of modern art museums in China 2.1 The path towards the birth of modern public art museums in the Republic of China (1912-1949) 2.2 The development of art museums in the People's Republic of China (1949-) * Politicization of art museums under Mao (1949-1979) ** Cultural relaxation and the resumption of privatization in the post-Mao period (1979-1989) ** The nascent development of private art museums in the 1990s ** Museums in the twenty-first century 2.3 The changing museum contexts in Hong Kong (1962-current) 2.4 Concluding remarks 3. He Xiangning Art Museum in Shenzhen 3.1 Between the state and the market: a contingent national museum framework 3.2 From nationalism to the production of knowledge: the art of He Xiangning 3.3 Cross-straits cultural diplomacy and public dialogue on contemporary art 3.4 Interpreting contemporary sculpture: possibilities and limitations 3.5 Educated youth, provincial visitors, and a diversified national public 3.6 Concluding remarks 4. Times Museum in Guangzhou 4.1 Institutional boundaries: the private market, the state, and society 4.2 Developmental perspective of cultural globalization * Critique of art commodification * Social-political critique of everyday life * Critical relationship between art and society * Institutional self-critique and reformulation of the museum 4.3 Artistic regionalization: southern imaginary vs northern hegemony 4.4 Educated youth and the consumption of 'alternative culture' 4.5 Concluding remarks 5. Hong Kong Museum of Art in Hong Kong 5.1 Museum bureaucracy and its institutional network 5.2 The historical painting collection: from the colonial legacy to aesthetic differences 5.3 International blockbusters and global cultural capital 5.4 National representation and the grandeur of dynastic art 5.5 Different notions of the local: from east-meets-west to a local-national-global nexus 5.6 Public and counter-public: museum consumption in a city-state 5.7 Concluding remarks 6. Conclusion 6.1 Museum modes of circuits 6.2 Implications of the findings * Institutional regulation: political and cultural-economic agents * Cultural production: museum intermediaries * Cultural consumption: museum publics 6.3 Contributions of the research Bibliograghies Index

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Book SynopsisAlready celebrated as a busy entrepôt and the most glorious of the Malay kingdoms of the past, Melaka has been on the UNESCO World Heritage List (together with George Town) since 2008 on the strength of its multi-ethnic and multi-religious urban fabric. Yet, contrary to the expectations of heritage experts and aficionados, the global mission of safeguarding cultural heritages has become a tumultuous issue on the ground. In World Heritage and Urban Politics in Melaka, Malaysia: A Cityscape below the Winds how the World Heritage 'label' has been, and continue to be used by different actors – such as international organizations, nation states, and society at large – to generate new economic revenues as well as to attract tourists and investments for large-scale real estate development projects is analyzed, revealing the complex and often contradictory stories behind heritage designations in urban milieus.Trade Review"[...] this book is a welcome addition to the growing literature on UNESCO heritage making processes and politics, highlighting it as ‘both a blessing and a curse’ (p. 274). [...] the book already gives much food for thought on global heritage making in a Southeast Asian city, paving the way for others to then take up these follow-up questions."- Hamzah Muzaini, Singapore Journal of Tropical Geography, Vol. 43, Iss. 2 "The author’s approach is to explore the issues from the ground up. He has combined considerable skill at sifting and analyzing documents with a remarkable talent, and sensitivity, for locating and interviewing a diverse array of people who are impacted by or actively engaged in the events. The result is a valuable contribution to the ethnography and the continuously unfolding history of Melaka." - Jerry Dennerline, JMBRAS, Vol. 95, Pt. 2Table of ContentsAbbreviations Acknowledgements Starter: Into a World Heritage City 1 A Cityscape Below the Winds World Heritage on the Ground On Melaka Fieldwork in and Beyond Melaka Outline of the Chapters 2 The Heritage Affairs: Mouse-Deer, White Elephants, and Watchdogs Antiquities: The Beginning Museumification and Replication Projects of a Developmentalist State 'Where There is Sugar, There Are Ants!' Restructuring National Heritage Society and the Heritage Affairs A Multilayered Heritage Haze 3 UNESCO and the City Tentative Steps: World Heritage Ambitions The Hybrid State of Nomination The State Party of Inscription The Negeri of Conservation Learning in the World Heritage Arena 4 Melakan Row Houses from the Ground Up Row Houses of Old Melaka: A Background Forsaken Buildings: The Post-war Period Revaluation: From RUMAH Kedai to Rumah KEDAI Housing Heritage: Some Approaches to Conservation Façadomy of Private World Heritage Properties The Malleability of Conservation Rules What State of Conservation for the Row Houses? 5 Divide and Brand: Public Space, Politics, and Tourism 'To Visit Historic Melaka Means to Visit Malaysia' Branding Streets in the Consociational Way Jonker Street and Walk A Walk for Cari Makan 'We Don't Need a Harmony Street, We Are the City of Harmony!' A Political Tsunami in Jonker Street Politicized Heritage 6 A Melakan Ancestral Village Beyond World Heritage The Chetti Community: A Background The Properties of the Ancestors The Making of a Kampung Warisan 'We Are Sitting on a Gold Mine!' The Kampungscape and The High-rise 'See You on the Thirteenth Floor!' What World Heritage Thresholds Do 7 Epilogue of a Blessing and a Curse Ethnographies of World Heritage Cities A Transnational Mis(s-)Understanding Topographies of World Heritage Exclusions Postscript: Inheriting the Cityscape in the Age of Hope? Bibliography Index

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Book Synopsis"So you're the one getting this gift? Lucky you! Someone who knows you has visited the museum. They searched out things they thought you would care about, and they took photos and left messages for you." This is the welcoming message for the Gift app, designed to create a very personal museum visit. Hybrid Museum Experiences use new technologies to augment, expand or alter the physical experience of visiting the museum. They are designed to be experienced in close relation to the physical space and exhibit. In this book we discuss three forms of hybridity in museum experiences: Incorporating the digital and the physical, creating social, yet personal and intimate experiences, and exploring ways to balance visitor participation and museum curation. This book reports on a 3-year cross-disciplinary research project in which artists, design researchers and museum professionals have collaborated to create technology-mediated experiences that merge with the museum environment.Table of ContentsPreface (Kevin Bacon and Nikita Mathias) Concepts 1. Introduction (Anders Sundnes Lovlie and Annika Waern) Why hybrid museum experiences? GIFT The structure of this book 2. Hybrid Museum Experiences (Anders Sundnes Lovlie, Annika Waern, Lina Eklund, Jocelyn Spence, Paulina Rajkowska and Steve Benford) The Physical and the Digital The Personal and the Social The Museum and the Visitor Conclusions Cases 3. The Gift App – Gifting Museum Experiences (Jocelyn Spence) The Experience The Designer Perspective The Museum Perspective The Visitor Perspective Analysis of the Gift App Conclusions 4. Never let me go – Social and Introspective Play (Karin Ryding) Becoming Mouse: The Experience Designing for Playfulness Designing Never let me go The Visitor Perspective Analysis of Never Let Me Go Conclusions 5. Your Stories – A Life Cycle Analysis (Paulina Rajkowska) The National Museum of Serbia The Design The Design Process Visitor Perspective Museum Perspective Designer Perspective Analysis of Your Stories Craft 6. Action Research as a Method for Reflective Practice in Museums (Christian Hviid Mortensen, Anne Rorbak Olesen, Sejul Malde and Anders Sundnes Lovlie) Reflective Practice in Museums What is Action Research? Action Research in GIFT The Cross-Departmental COP: Three Examples The Cross-Organizational COP: Learning Beyond the Organization The GIFT Project: A Cross-Sectorial COP Discussion Conclusions 7. Sensitizing Design Teams to Theory (Annika Waern and Paulina Rajkowska) Sensitizing Concepts and Boundary Objects Sensitizing Scenarios Resident Theorist Other Ways to Sensitize Designers 8. Ideation Tools for Experience Design (Anne Rorbak Olesen, Christian Hviid Mortensen, Anders Sundnes Lovlie) The Importance of Ideation Three Tools for Ideation Combination and Usefulness of the Tools 9. Data-Driven Visiting Experiences (Steve Benford, Dimitri Darzentas, Edgar Bodiaj, Paul Tennent, Sarah Martindale, Harriet Cameron and Velvet Spors) Visualizing Visitor Behaviour in Thresholds Visiting Gifting Behaviours 162 Visualizing the Use of Visitor Box Cards Opportunities and Challenges 10. Evaluation (Jon Back and Jocelyn Spence) First, Ask Why! What Is Important to Know? Who Should Your Study Subjects Be? Where Will You Be? When and for How Long Can You Study Them? How to Get Your Answer Early On: Formative Studies Analyse Your Evaluation Ethical Considerations Conclusions Coda 11. Remediating, Reframing and Restaging the Museum (Annika Waern and Anders Sundnes Lovlie) The Ideal Museum Experience Reimagining the Museum Experience Final Words Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThe cry for decolonization has echoed throughout the museum world. Although perhaps most audibly heard in the case of ethnographic museums, many different types of museums have felt the need to engage in decolonial practices. Amidst those who have argued that an institution as deeply colonial as the museum cannot truly be decolonized, museum staff and museologists have been approaching the issue from different angles to practice decoloniality in any way they can. Practicing Decoloniality in Museums: A Guide with Global Examples collects a wide range of practices from museums whose audiences, often highly diverse, come together in sometimes contentious conversations about pasts and futures. Although there are no easy or uniform answers as to how best to deal with colonial pasts, this collection of practices functions as an accessible toolkit from which museum staff can choose in order to experiment with and implement methods according to their own needs and situations. The practices are divided thematically and include, among others, methods for decentering, improving transparency, and increasing inclusivity.Table of ContentsIntroduction What is the problem? What is in this book? For whom is this book? How to design your own decolonial practice 1 Creating Visibility The challenge The change International Slavery Museum (UK) Tropenmuseum (NL) Mutare Museum (ZW) Belmont Estate (GD) Further reading Further examples 2 Increasing Inclusivity The challenge The change Corona in the City | Amsterdam Museum (NL) GLOW | Santa Cruz Museum of Art & History (US) Museum of London (UK) Liberty Hall: The Legacy of Marcus Garvey (JM) Further reading Further examples 3 Decentering The challenge The change Memento Park (HU) Dress Code: Are You Playing Fashion? | National Museum of Modern Art (JP) Spitzmaus Mummy in a Coffin and Other Treasures | Kunsthistorisches Museum (AT) Indigenous ‘Museum-like’ Centers (CA & US) Further reading Further examples 4 Championing Empathy The challenge The change National Museum of African American History and Culture (US) Museo Tula (CW) POLIN Museum of the History of Polish Jews (PL) Tate Modern (UK) Further reading Further examples 5 Improving Transparency The challenge The change International Inventories Program | National Museum Nairobi & Goethe-Institut Kenya (KY) The Past Is Now | Birmingham Museum & Art Gallery (UK) Museum of British Colonialism (KY & UK) Musee des Civilisations Noires (SN) Further reading Further examples 6 Embracing Vulnerability The challenge The change The Museum of Others | Pitt Rivers Museum (UK) Scaffold | Walker Art Center (US) Muzeum krytyczne (Critical Museum) by Piotr Piotrowski (PL) Voices from the Colonies | National Museum of Denmark (DK) Further reading Further examples Concluding Remarks Contributors Acknowledgements Author Biographies References Index

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Book SynopsisDrawing on a broad theoretical range from speculative realism to feminist psychoanalysis and anti-colonialism, this book represents a radical departure from traditional scholarship on maritime archaeology. Shipwreck Hauntography asserts that nautical archaeology bears the legacy of Early Modern theological imperialism, most evident through the savior-scholar model that resurrects—physically or virtually—ships from wrecks. Instead of construing shipwrecks as dead, awaiting resurrection from the seafloor, this book presents them as vibrant if not recalcitrant objects, having shaken off anthropogenesis through varying stages of ruination. Sara Rich illustrates this anarchic condition with 'hauntographs' of five Age of 'Discovery' shipwrecks, each of which elucidates the wonder of failure and finitude, alongside an intimate brush with the eerie, horrific, and uncanny.Trade Review"What would contemporary theory look like if it moved underwater? In her wonderfully written Shipwreck Hauntography, Sara Rich rewrites the history of modernity in terms of its sunken vessels. Shipwrecks are not dead masses in need of salvation, but are especially uncanny forms of living matter."- Graham Harman, Southern California Institute of Architecture "[...] Rich includes, and magnifcently so, her own art, doing so along with the text to drive home the book’s essential point, that wrecks are not dead, nor do they need us to 'save' them or resurrect them." - James P. Delgado, Journal of Maritime Archaeology, Vol. 17, Iss. 04Table of ContentsIllustration List Preface: Hauntographies of Ordinary Shipwrecks 1. Resetting the Binary Bones Legacy (Marigalante) Liturgy (The Gresham Ship) Litany (Santa Maria) Liminality (The Nissia) 2. Broken Ship, Dead Ship Ontology (The Yarmouth Roads) Meontology (Holigost) Deontology (Mary Rose) Mereology (Argo and Ark) 3. Among the Tentative Haunters Conversion (Terror and Erebus) Inversion (Impregnable) Delirium (Belle) Desiderium (The Ribadeo) 4. Vibrant Corpses Entropy (Nuestra Senora de los Remedios) Negentropy (Magdalena) Putrefaction (Sanchi) Purification (Costa Concordia) 5. Macabre Simulacra Exploration (Melckmeyt) Exploitation (Thistlegorm) Eschatology (Batavia) Elegy (Bayonnaise) Postface. On Underwater Seances and Punk Eulogies Complete Works Cited Index

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Book SynopsisAn elaborately crafted and decorated tomahawk from somewhere along the North American east coast: how did it end up in the royal collections in Stockholm in the late seventeenth century? What does it say about the Swedish kingdom’s colonial ambitions and desires? What questions does it raise from its present place in a display cabinet in the Museum of Ethnography in Stockholm? Colonial Objects in Early Modern Sweden and Beyond is about the tomahawk and other objects like it, acquired in colonial contact zones and displayed by Swedish elites in the seventeenth century. Its first part situates the objects in two distinct but related spaces: the expanding space of the colonial world, and the exclusive space of the Kunstkammer. The second part traces the objects’ physical and epistemological transfer from the Kunstkammer to the modern museum system. In the final part, colonial objects are considered at the centre of a heated debate over the present state of museums, and their possible futures.Trade Review"Snickare’s arguments are not only timely but also model an historically grounded, balanced and judicious approach to issues that trouble many institutions around the world currently trying to address the complex legacies of colonialism." - Ruth Phillips, Carleton UniversityTable of ContentsList of Illustrations Acknowledgements Introduction: The King’s Tomahawk? Part I Colonial Objects in Space: Baroque Practices of Collecting and Display 1. The Spaces of Colonial Objects : The Colonial World and the Kunstkammer 2. Global Interests: Colonial Policy and Collecting in the Reign of Queen Christina 3. Performing Difference: Court Culture and Collecting in the Time of Hedwig Eleonora 4. Object Lessons: Materiality and Knowledge in the Kunstkammer of Johannes Schefferus Part II Colonial Objects in Time: Object Itineraries 5. Objects and their Agency and Itineraries 6. From North America to Nordamerika: A Tomahawk 7. From Northern Sapmi to Nordiska Museet: A Goavddis Part III The Fate of Colonial Objects: Pasts, Presents, and Futures 8. Learning from the Kunstkammer? Colonial Objects and Decolonial Options Bibliography About the Author Index

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Book SynopsisMemories of Tiananmen: Politics and Processes of Collective Remembering in Hong Kong, 1989-2019 analyzes how collective memory regarding the 1989 Beijing student movement and the Tiananmen crackdown was produced, contested, sustained, and transformed in Hong Kong between 1989 and 2019. Drawing on data gathered through multiple sources such as news reports, digital media content, on-site vigil surveys, population surveys, and in-depth interviews with activists, rally participants, and other stakeholders, it identifies six key processes in the dynamics of social remembering: memory formation, memory mobilization, memory institutionalization, intergenerational transfer, memory repair, and memory balkanization. The book demonstrates how a socially dominant collective memory, even one the state finds politically irritable, can be generated and maintained through constant negotiation and efforts by a wide range of actors. While Memories of Tiananmen mainly focuses on the interplay between political changes and the Tiananmen commemoration in the historical period within which the society enjoyed a significant degree of civil liberties, it also discusses how the trajectory of the collective memory may take a drastic turn as Hong Kong’s autonomy is abridged. The book promises to be a key reference for anyone interested in collective memory studies, social movement research, political communication, and China and Hong Kong studies.Trade Review"Memories of Tiananmen is a landmark scholarly work...Clearly written and rigorously argued, it is recommended reading for anyone interested in Hong Kong and its complex connections with mainland China. Based on a wealth of data and always nuanced and balanced in its arguments, the book itself represents a kind of monument to the collective memory of 1989 that is now rapidly being erased under the new political circumstances." - Sebastian Veg, The China Quarterly, Vol. 251, September 2022 ''[...]this is an excellent and rewarding monograph and should appeal to scholars working in Chinese studies, memory studies, media studies, political science, sociology, human geography and urban studies more broadly.- Andrew M. Law, Europe-Asia Studies, August, 2023, 75/7 Table of ContentsAcknowledgments List of abbreviations Chapter 1 Introduction Chapter 2 Memory Formation and the Valorization of Commemoration Chapter 3 Memory Mobilization Chapter 4 Intergenerational Memory Transmission Chapter 5 The Struggle for Memory Institutionalization Chapter 6 The Challenge of Localism and Memory Repair Chapter 7 Changing Attitudes toward Tiananmen? Chapter 8 Digital Media and Memory Balkanization Chapter 9 Conclusion Epilogue Appendix A References Index

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Book SynopsisThe prehistoric site of Ban Chiang in northeast Thailand challenges the narrative of Thai origins, while at the same time appealing to the public’s vision of Thailand as an early centre of civilization. Ban Chiang demonstrates the complexity of constructing national heritage in modern Thailand, where the Thai national narrative begins and ends with Buddhism and the monarchy. Designs on Pots. Ban Chiang and the Politics of Heritage in Thailand contributes to the literature on cultural preservation, repatriation, fake antiquities as souvenirs, and the ethics of collecting, and demonstrates how heritage tourism intersects with the antiquities market in Asia. Ban Chiang itself is important for rethinking the model of indigenous development in Southeast Asian prehistory and provides informed speculation about the borders between prehistory, proto-history, and history in the region, challenging current and past models of Indianization that shape the Thai state’s heritage narrative.Table of ContentsPreface Acknowledgements Chapter 1 The Personal Past: Designs on Pots Chapter 2 The Excavated Past: Grounded Evidence Chapter 3 The Artistic Past: Aesthetic Preferences Chapter 4 The Looted Past: On Stealing Pots Chapter 5 The Fake Past: Forgeries and Souvenirs Chapter 6 The Packaged Past: Implications for Thai Heritage Illustrations Appendix Index

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Book SynopsisConstructing Kanchi: City of Infinite Temples traces the emergence of the South Indian city of Kanchi as a major royal capital and multireligious pilgrimage destination during the era of the Pallava and Chola dynasties (ca. seventh through thirteenth centuries). The book presents the first-ever comprehensive picture of historical Kanchi, locating the city and its more than 100 spectacular Hindu temples at the heart of commercial and artistic exchange that spanned India, Southeast Asia, and China. The author demonstrates that Kanchi was structured with a hidden urban plan, which determined the placement and orientation of temples around a central thoroughfare that was also a burgeoning pilgrimage route. Moving outwards from the city, she shows how the transportation networks, river systems, residential enclaves, and agrarian estates all contributed to the vibrancy of Kanchi’s temple life. The construction and ongoing renovation of temples in and around the city, she concludes, has enabled Kanchi to thrive continuously from at least the eighth century, through the colonial period, and up until the present.Table of ContentsAcknowledgements List of Illustrations Note on Transliteration, Translation, and Illustrations Introduction: All Streets Lead to Temples An Ancient City Layers of Time Kanchi Known and Unknown 1 Sandstone and the City: Building Pallava-Kanchi (ca. seventh through ninth century) From Brick to Stone (the Seventh Century) Sandstone Temples in the City (the Eighth Century) The Temples of Pallava-Kanchi Everywhere but Kanchi (the Ninth Century) Conclusion: Foundations Laid 2 Realignment: Kanchi in the Chola Era (ca. tenth through thirteenth century) Orienting the Gods Pilgrimage and Processions From Ancient Village to Temple Town Local Style Conclusion: Urban Logic 3 The City and its Ports Part 1: K.ETRA The River Networks Over the Hills The Coast Part II: K.ATRA Kanchi in a Buddhist World The City and its Mirrors Conclusion: From Kanchi to the Sea 4 Kanchi Under Colonialism: What Happened in Kanchi while those Towering Gateways Arose? Embattled Territory William Daniell’s Most Considerable Temple James Wathen’s Soaring View Henrietta Clive’s 'Hindoo Gods and Monsters' Colonel Colin Mackenzie’s Search for the Jains Surgeon George Russell Dartnell James Fergusson's Downward Spiral Prince Alexis Soltykoff's 'City of Infinite Temples' Conclusion: Plastered Pasts Epilogue: The Living Temple Encounter Expansion Continuation Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisThis book explores cultural and creative processes as they occur in a heritage setting, and how they can be applied to business projects. More specifically, the chapters take a detailed look at the importance of culture in entrepreneurial pursuits regarding heritage matters. This involves focusing on how culture is embedded within heritage entrepreneurship and the distinctive comparative advantages of taking a cultural approach to business. The role of entrepreneurial environments in terms of accepting creativity is highlighted, thereby making a new contribution to the study of heritage entrepreneurship. The book also elaborates on how heritage entrepreneurs are embedded in an entrepreneurial ecosystem that consists of a number of different stakeholders. In doing so, the book provides an interdisciplinary perspective about the ways culture, creativity and heritage combine in order to produce novel entrepreneurial contributions. It speaks to researchers, practitioners and policy makers interested in heritage entrepreneurship, enabling them to gain ideas for their work, and to move the field forward with a better understanding of heritage entrepreneurship.Table of Contents1. Towards a theory of heritage entrepreneurship.- 2. Government Initiatives and Social Entrepreneurship in Thailand: Exploring the Role of Pracharath Rak Samakee Social Enterprise Scheme (ประชารัฐรักสามัคคี) and the Way Forward.- 3. Social-driven innovation in tourism: a perspective on soft attributes of an entrepreneurial ecosystem.- 4. Strategies for innovation among Indonesian family firms.- 5. Exploring the relationship between informality and entrepreneurial ecosystem: A bibliometric analysis.- 6. The impact of the SARS-CoV-2 pandemic on tourism in Alpine areas of Switzerland.- 7. World heritage sites in Italy.- 8. World heritage sites in the United States.- 9. Heritage entrepreneurship: Future trends.

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