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Book SynopsisConflict, Cultural Heritage and Peace offers a series of conceptual and applied frameworks to help understand the role cultural heritage plays within conflict and the potential it has to contribute to positive peacebuilding and sustainable development in post-conflict societies.Designed as a resource guide, this general volume introduces the multiple roles cultural heritage plays through the conflict cycle from its onset, subsequent escalation and through to resolution and recovery. In its broadest sense, it questions what role cultural heritage plays within conflict, how cultural heritage is used in the construction and justification of conflict narratives, how are these narratives framed and often manipulated to support particular perspectives, and how we can develop better understandings of cultural heritage and work towards the better protection of cultural heritage resources during conflict. It moves beyond the protection paradigm and recognises that cultural heTable of Contents1.Introduction, 2. Cultural Heritage and the Causes of Violent Conflict Causes, 3.Heritage and Ethnic/ Identity Conflicts, 4. Heritage and Nation Building, 5. Cultural Heritage during Armed Conflict, 6. Cultural Heritage, Peacemaking and Post-Conflict Societies, 7. Cultural Heritage and Peace, 8. Heritage and Conflict Memory, 9. Comparative practice and Environmental Peacebuilding, 10. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe Psychology of Blindness and Visual Culture: Towards a new ecological model of visual impairment advances the debate regarding the inclusion and wellbeing of people with visual impairment (PVI) through looking at the psychological nature of visual culture and its effects on the lived experience. It explores whether is possible to increase access to visual culture for PVI through language, alternative sensory data or contemporary communication media, and in so doing, questions whether or not communication and culture are intrinsically visual.Occupying a unique field of study by focusing on the understanding of visual culture and visual communication by PVI in real world settings, this empirical book examines the difference between the understanding of visual culture and visual communication by PVI who acquire their visual impairments late in life and PVI who acquire their visual impairments early in life. Understanding these concepts not only helps us to understand how PVI feel socially included in visual culture, but also how culture and artefacts are conceptualized verbally, culturally and through the senses.It is compelling reading for advanced students of psychology and philosophy, and those studying learning in cultural settings, and in museum studies, computer science, disability studies, education and fine art management.

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Book SynopsisGrappling with Monuments of Oppression provides a timely analysis of the diverse approaches being used around the world to confront colonial and imperial monuments and to promote social equity.Presenting 12 interdisciplinary, international case studies, this volume explores the ways in which the materiality of social domination can be combated. With contributions from activists, scholars, artists, and policymakers, the book envisions the theme of restorative justice in heritage and archaeology as encompassing initiatives for the reconciliation of past societal transgressions using processes that are multivocal, dialogic, historically informed, community-based, negotiated, and transformative. Arguing that monuments to historical figures who engaged in oppressive regimes provide rich opportunities for dialogue and negotiation, chapters within the book demonstrate that, by confronting these monuments, citizens can envision new ways to address the context and significance

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Book SynopsisMuseum Design with, by, and for Children makes an important contribution to contemporary museum theory and practice by focusing on the role and rights of children in museums from a new angle: design.At a time when museum practitioners are challenged to work within their particular buildings and contexts to help the children in their communities feel welcome, invited, and involved, this book presents alternative approaches that are being implemented across the world and pushing the museum field further in its commitment to children, starting with design. The book provides inspirational insights into large and small-scale ways that children can participate in museum design and thereby exercise their human rights, gain agency, develop their sense of belonging, and form part of museum communities. Drawing on case studies from Argentina, Australia, England, Italy, Mexico, and Paraguay, and theoretical insights from the Reggio Emilia Approach, constructivism, designerly learning, laboratory-style design, and the work of Paulo Freire and Francesco Tonucci, this book explores the extent to which museumsâ design processes are child-centered, and to how childrenâs material culture can be reflected in the museum design work that will ultimately shape their own early learning experiences. The book explores museum design as a process that involves key stakeholders in procedural planning and associated tasks and discussions, such as those regarding color, light, shape, form, space, and building materials.Museum Design with, by, and for Children will be valuable for museum practitioners, students and researchers with an interest in childrenâs experiences in museums, particularly how children can be empowered as active participants with rights to the museum.

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This unique book is the only fully interdisciplinary and comprehensive study of the Australian desert and its pivotal role in the cultural history of Australia.Beginning with the prehistory of the continent it engages with geology, prehistory, the arrival of the first Australians, Aboriginal culture of the Dreaming, anthropology, colonial history and the cult of the inland explorer-hero, and integration of the central deserts (n.b. plural) through the responses of writers, artists, and film makers into the national identity. This book explores the unique way Indigenous artists have evolved a method of expressing their spiritual relationship to Country, while hiding from uninitiated eyes the secret-sacred meaning beneath the paint. It takes us on a journey through the politics of Land Rights for First Nations peoples, the Uluru Statement from the Heart, and an analysis of Indigenous ecological principles which may suggest a new and radical approach to navigating climate change

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Book SynopsisEngaging Transculturality is an extensive and comprehensive survey of the rapidly developing field of transcultural studies. In this volume, the reflections of a large and interdisciplinary array of scholars have been brought together to provide an extensive source of regional and trans-regional competencies, and a systematic and critical discussion of the field's central methodological concepts and terms. Based on a wide range of case studies, the book is divided into twenty-seven chapters across which cultural, social, and political issues relating to transculturality from Antiquity to today and within both Asian and European regions are explored. Key terms related to the field of transculturality are also discussed within each chapter, and the rich variety of approaches provided by the contributing authors offer the reader an expansive look into the field of transculturality. Offering a wealth of expertise, and equipped with a selection of illustrations, thTable of ContentsPart I: Delineating Transculturality; Part II: Transcultural Spaces and Agents; Part III: Transcultural Temporalities; Part IV: Transcultural Semantics; Part V: The Transcultural Lens

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Book SynopsisIn this book, Dan Adler addresses recent tendencies in contemporary art toward assemblage sculpture and how these works incorporate tainted materials often things left on the side of the road, according to the logic and progress of the capitalist machine and combine them in ways that allow each element to retain a degree of empirical specificity. Adler develops a range of aesthetic models through which these practices can be understood to function critically. Each chapter focuses on a single exhibition: Isa Genzken's OIL (German Pavilion, Venice Biennale, 2007), Geoffrey Farmer's midcareer survey (Musée d'art contemporain, Montréal, 2008), Rachel Harrison's Consider the Lobster (CCS Bard Hessel Museum of Art, 2009), and Liz Magor's The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities (Henry Art Gallery, Seattle, 2008).Trade Review"This book is an argument for paying more attention to the material conditions of sculpture—not as a return to formalism, but as a powerful and necessary tool to cut through the lingo of installation art and the capaciousness of digital culture."- Gloria Sutton, Northeastern University ArtTable of ContentsIntroduction 1. Rachel Harrison: "Consider the Lobster" 2. Isa Genzken: "OIL" 3. Geoffrey Farmer: "Me into Many" 4. Liz Magor: "The Mouth and Other Storage Facilities" Conclusion

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Book SynopsisThe Performance of Viking Identity in Museums explores the representations and uses of Vikings in museums across Iceland, British Isles and Norway.Drawing on theories from history, philosophy, museology, and sociology, the book analyses how the Viking myth is used by visitors to make sense of present-day society, culture, and politics and the role of museums in this meaning-making process. Demonstrating that the Viking myth is present in collective memory and plays an important role in the construction and modification of collective, national, and personal identities, the book analyses this process through the framework of museums and their visitors. Identifying museums as places where heritage, identity and social norms are affirmed and reflected upon, Whitehead demonstrates that all countries use their Viking heritage to define their identity on a local and international level - through tourist attractions such as museums and other Viking-related monuments and mercha

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Book SynopsisFueled by a flourishing capitalist economy, undergirded by advancements in architectural design and urban infrastructure, and patronized by growing bourgeois and elite classes, New Yorkâs built environment was dramatically transformed in the 1870s and 1880s. This book argues that this constituted the formative period of New Yorkâs modernization and cosmopolitanismâthe product of a vital self-consciousness and a deliberate intent on the part of its elite citizenry to create a world-class cultural metropolis reflecting the cityâs economic and political preeminence. The interdisciplinary essays in this book examine New Yorkâs late nineteenth-century evolution not simply as a question of its physical layout but also in terms of its radically new social composition, comprising the individuals, institutions, and organizations that played determining roles in the cityâs cultural ascendancy.Trade Review"Those of us who teach should ask our university librarians to purchase the ebook in addition to the hardcover, so that individual essays can be downloaded, paired, and assigned to students in our undergraduate classes. All are well written and eminently readable by students and scholars alike."--Nineteenth-Century Art WorldwideTable of ContentsIntroduction Margaret R. Laster and Chelsea BrunerPart I. Creating the Art and Cultural Capital1. Looking West from the Empire City: National Landscape and Visual Culture in Gilded Age New York David Scobey2. The François Premier Style in New York: The William K. and Alva Vanderbilt HouseKevin D. Murphy3. Aestheticizing Tendencies in Hudson River School Landscape Painting at the Beginning of the Gilded AgeAlan WallachPart II. Institutionalizing Art and Culture in the Capital4. The Lenox Library: New York’s Lost Treasure HouseSally Webster5. Publishing and Promoting a New York City Art World: Scribner’s Illustrated Monthly, 1870–1881Page Knox 6. An Unsung Hero: Henry Gurdon Marquand and His 1889 Gift to The Metropolitan Museum of ArtEsmée Quodbach7. Metropolitan, Inc.: Public Subsidy and Private Gain at the Genesis of the American Art MuseumJohn Ott8. Un-Domesticating the Ideal: William Wetmore Story and The Metropolitan Museum of ArtLauren LessingPart III. Depicting the Capital in Art and Culture9. Before the Farragut: Who Was Augustus Saint-Gaudens? Thayer Tolles10. Crossing Broadway: New York and the Culture of Capital in the Late Nineteenth CenturyDavid Jaffee11. Bulls, Bears, and Buildings: William Holbrook Beard’s Wall StreetRoss BarrettAfterword Joshua Brown

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Book SynopsisThe Routledge Companion to Cultural Property contains new contributions from scholars working at the cutting edge of cultural property studies, bringing together diverse academic and professional perspectives to develop a coherent overview of this field of enquiry. The global range of authors use international case studies to encourage a comparative understanding of how cultural property has emerged in different parts of the world and continues to frame vital issues of national sovereignty, the free market, international law, and cultural heritage. Sections explore how cultural property is scaled to the state and the market; cultural property as law; cultural property and cultural rights; and emerging forms of cultural property, from yoga to the national archive. By bringing together disciplinary perspectives from anthropology, archaeology, law, Indigenous studies, history, folklore studies, and policy, this volume facilitates fresh debate and broadens our understanding of thiTable of Contents1. IntroductionHaidy Geismar and Jane AndersonPart OneLegal Orderings of Cultural Property2. Heritage vs. Property: Contrasting Regimes and Rationalities in the Patrimonial FieldValdimar Tr. Hafstein and Martin Skrydstrup3. The Criminalisation of the Illicit Trade in Cultural PropertyAna Filipa Vrdoljak 4. Implementation of the 1970 UNESCO Convention by the United States and Other Market NationsPatty Gerstenblith5. Protection not Prevention: The Failure of Public Policy to Prevent the Looting and Illegal Trade of Cultural Property from the Mena Region (1990-2015) Neil Brodie6. A Paradox of Cultural Property: NAGPRA and (Dis)PossessionSusan BentonPart TwoMuseums, Archives and Communities7. NAGPRA, CUI and Institutional Will Rae Gould8. Betting on the Raven: Ethical Relationality and Nuxalk Cultural PropertyJennifer Kramer9. Whose Story is This? Complexities and Complicities of Using Archival FootageFred Myers10. The Archive of the Archive: the Secret History of the Laura Boulton CollectionAaron Fox11. Touching the Intangible: Reconsidering Material Culture in the Realm of Indigenous Cultural Property ResearchGeorge NicholasPart ThreeLocal Histories12. On the Nature of Patrimonio: Cultural Property in Mexican ContextsSandra Rozental13. Making and Unmaking Heritage Value in ChinaShu Li Wang and Michael Rowlands14. Object Movement: UNESCO, Language and the Exchange of Middle Eastern ArtifactsMorag Kersel15. Cultures of Property: Ghanaian Culture in Intellectual and Cultural PropertyBoatema BoatengPart FourCultural Property Beyond the State16. Culture as a Flexible Concept for the Legitimation of Policies in the European UnionStefan Groth and Regina Bendix17. The Bible as Cultural Property? A Cautionary TaleNeil Asher Silberman18. Being pre-Indigenous: Kin, Accountability and Cultural Property Beyond TraditionPaul Tapsell19. Frontiers of Cultural Property in the Global SouthRosemary CoombeSection FiveNew and Experimental Forms of Cultural Property20. Who Owns Yoga? Transforming Traditions as Cultural PropertySita Reddy21.Bones, Documents and DNA: Cultural Property at the Margins of the LawLee Douglas22. Collaborative Encounters in Digital Cultural Property: Tracing Temporal Relationships of Context and LocalityJane Anderson and Maria Montenegro23. Animating Language: Continuing Inter-Generational Indigenous Language KnowledgeShannon Faulkhead, John Bradley and Brent McKee24. Ancestors for Sale in Aotearoa New ZealandMarama Muru Lanning

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Book SynopsisMore than half of the world's population now live in urban areas, and cities provide the setting for contemporary challenges such as population growth, mass tourism and unequal access to socio-economic opportunities. Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability examines the impact of these issues on urban heritage, considering innovative approaches to managing developmental pressures and focusing on how taking an ethical, inclusive and holistic approach to urban planning and heritage conservation may create a stronger basis for the sustainable growth of cities in the future.This volume is a timely analysis of current theories and practises in urban heritage, with particular reference to the conflict between, and potential reconciliation of, conservation and development goals. A global range of case studies detail a number of distinct practical approaches to heritage on international, national and local scales. Chapters reveal the disjunctions between inTable of ContentsEditor’s IntroductionCh. 1 Approaches to Urban Heritage, Development and Sustainability Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent, United KingdomEmeritus Prof William Logan, Deakin University, Melbourne, AustraliaPart I. Implementing International Frameworks at the National LevelCh. 2 In the slipstream of development: World Heritage and development-induced displacement in Laos Kearrin Sims, University of Western Sydney, AustraliaProf Tim Winter, Deakin University, AustraliaCh. 3 World Heritage, Poverty and Development: a disconnect? Answers from Island of Mozambique, Mozambique Albino Jopela. Eduardo Mondlane University, Mozambique.Ch. 4 Interrogating communities of expertise on urban conservation and development: past and future of ‘public and open spaces’ in the old city of Tunis Bianca Maria Nardella and Elisabete Cidre, University College, London, United Kingdom Ch. 5 Challenges for Implementing UNESCO’s Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape in CanadaDr Stacey Jessiman de Nanteuil, Stanford University, United States of AmericaCh. 6 Using the Historic Urban Landscape to reimagine Ballarat: the Local ContextKristal Buckley, Deakin University, AustraliaDr Steven Cooke, Deakin University, Australia Susan Fayad, City of Ballarat, AustraliaCh. 7 Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage in the Urban Environment – Some Experiences Gained from Implementing UNESCO’s 2003 ConventionDr Janet Blake, Lecturer in Law, Uni. of Shahid Beheshti, Tehran, IranPart II. Reconciling Urban Heritage Conservation and Development?Ch. 8 The Impacts of Culture and Heritage-led Development Programs: the Cases of Liverpool (UK) and Lille (France) Dr Sophia Labadi, University of Kent, United KingdomCh. 9 Management Strategies for Historic Towns in Europe Emeritus Prof. Robert Pickard, Northumbria University, Newcastle, United KingdomCh. 10 Corporate Visual Impact on Historic Urban LandscapeDr Celia Martinez Yanez, University of Granada, Spain Ch. 11 From Zero Sum Game to Arranged Marriage: The Struggle between Built Heritage Conservation and Urban Development in Post-colonial Hong Kong Dr Lee Ho Yin, University of Hong Kong, ChinaProf. Lynne DiStefano, University of Hong Kong, ChinaCh. 12 Cuba as ‘Exception’: UNESCO’s Historic Urban Landscape Approach, Integral Development and the Changing Management of Historic Centres in Late Socialist CubaDr Matthew J. Hill, University of Massachusetts, United StatesDr Maki Tanaka, University of California Berkeley, United StatesPart III. Grass-roots Heritage and Bottom-up ApproachesCh. 13 Stakeholder Involvement: A Necessary Condition for the Sustainable Preservation of the Urban HeritageDr Eduardo Rojas, consultant, World Bank, United States of AmericaCh. 14 Whose Heritage? Conflicting Narratives and Top-down and Bottom-up Approaches to Heritage Management in Yangon, MyanmarEmeritus Prof William Logan, Deakin University, AustraliaCh. 15 Living heritage, community participation and sustainability: redefining development strategies in Hoi An Ancient Town World Heritage property, Viet NamPham Thi Thanh Huong, UNESCO Office, Hanoi, VietnamCh. 16 Deep Ecology and Hauz Khas Village Heritage for Delhi Megacity PlanningDr Yamini Narayanan, Deakin University, Australia

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Book SynopsisThis research examines how museums and heritage sites can embrace a social justice approach to tackle inequalities; to empower disadvantaged groups; and to develop the necessary skills to take an equal benefit from cultural resources.Table of Contents1. Introduction; 2. Pitfalls and potentials; 3. Critical dialogues; 4. Social justice heritage practice; 5. Conclusion.

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Book SynopsisThe history and meaning of the Berlin Wall remain controversial, even three decades after its fall. Drawing on a range of archival sources and interviews, this book charts the development of new narratives of the recent German past and explores the significance of the commemoration of the Berlin Wall in defining German national identity.Trade Review'An original mixture of journalistic reporting and scholarly analysis, this will be the definitive work on the subject of the aftermath of the Wall.' Konrad H. Jarausch, University of North Carolina Chapel Hill and author of Out of Ashes: A New History of Europe in the Twentieth Century'Hope M. Harrison's superbly informed and often moving study of the Berlin Wall demonstrates that the issues of whom to honor and punish, how to memorialize, and how to integrate into the history of German dictatorship, have made its history a continuing site of political contestation. And poignantly today, a reminder of the era when we strove to tear down walls and not to build them.' Charles S. Maier, Harvard University and author of Dissolution: The Crisis of Communism and the End of East Germany'Hope M. Harrison provides an extraordinary account of an extraordinary event and its legacies, both factual and political, and it will certainly frame the discussion for the future. It is a tremendous achievement.' Jeffrey K. Olick, William R. Kenan Professor of Sociology and History, University of Virginia'A riveting and compelling account of Germany's post-1989 struggle over the history and memory of the Berlin Wall. Masterfully told with critical distance and yet deep empathy, Harrison engages the reader in the dramatic contest over the past and future of the new Germany.' Christian F. Ostermann, Director of the History and Public Policy Program, Woodrow Wilson International Center for Scholars 'A tour de force, breaking new ground in showing us how German memory activists turned the focus of national history to the Cold War, and in particular to the wall, the dismantling of which embodied the peaceful end of that struggle for freedom.' Jay Winter, Yale University, Connecticut'… many years in the making and is the result of meticulous research.' Georgina Paul, The Times Literary Supplement'… carefully researched and superbly readable …' Andrew Moravcsik, Foreign Affairs'This important book offers a comprehensive account of how the Berlin Wall has been remembered and memorialized since its fall in 1989 … this clearly written and highly readable text will appeal to scholars and general readers alike.' H. D. Baer, Choice'… far-ranging, well-researched and highly readable study … After the Berlin Wall is a major achievement by a leading scholar, a study that will, for the foreseeable future, set the standard for any serious exploration of unified Germany's memory culture surrounding the Berlin Wall.' Pertti Ahonen, H-Diplo'… the book adds to our understanding of the Wall as a touchstone and sounding board for memory. Harrison succeeds in bringing out the palimpsest qualities of this stark, spray-painted structure.' Mark Fenemore, H-Diplo'Comprehensively researched, beautifully written …' Mary Fulbrook, H-Diplo'Hope M. Harrison's splendid book is a tremendous achievement … It will frame the memory and identity discussions for the future.' Stephan Kieninger, H-Diplo'… the book [is] so beneficial for everybody who studies the history of the Berlin Wall.' Hanno Hochmuth, The Public HistorianTable of ContentsList of figures; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations and German terms; Introduction: the Berlin Wall and German historical memory; 1. Divergent approaches to the fall of the Wall; 2. The fight over memory at Bernauer Strasse; 3. Creating a Berlin Wall Memorial ensemble at Bernauer Strasse; 4. Remembering the Wall at Checkpoint Charlie; 5. The Berlin Senate's master plan for remembering the Wall; 6. The Federal Government and the Berlin Wall; 7. Victims and perpetrators; 8. Conflicting narratives about the Wall; 9. Heroes to celebrate and a new founding myth; Conclusion: memory as warning; Bibliography; Index.

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Book SynopsisIn recent years controversial cases such as the so-called Elgin Marbles have prompted public debate on the return of cultural treasures to their homelands. In this fully revised and expanded third edition of her seminal work, first published in 2007, Jeanette Greenfield analyzes and discusses the historical, legal and political issues surrounding a wide cross-section of similar cases. Bringing the story up to date, this edition includes new chapters on wartime plunders, deliberately destroyed art and the return of ethnic art such as Australian aboriginal and Native American art. It also explores the palaeontological and marine archaeology issues at play and examines new approaches taken by museums when dealing with cultural objects and their return. Written in a highly accessible style with an interdisciplinary approach, this book will appeal to a wide range of readers interested in cultural heritage, archaeology and anthropology, museums, art history and international law.Trade ReviewReview of the hardback: '[Described the central topic of this book as] 'the morally rather beautiful idea that certain objects belong by right to a culture, and that in certain circumstances this overrides rights of circumstantial ownership.' Arthur C. Danto, The Times Literary SupplementReview of the hardback: 'She brings style, enthusiasm and the mind an international lawyer to the complex historical, legal and political issues … A book for everyone concerned about Earth's scientific, historic and artistic heritage …' The TimesReview of the hardback: 'This remarkable book represents on the one hand, an important contribution to the law, both international and domestic, of the cultural heritage, and on the other hand a contribution likewise to the history of the movement of cultural treasures.' Australian Law JournalReview of the hardback: 'Both readable and with its hundred excellent illustrations a delight to browse through …' British Yearbook of International LawReview of the hardback: '[Jeanette Greenfield] presents an involving, balanced and excellently researched discussion of the priceless cultural artefacts taken from their lands of origin …' Art and AntiquesReview of the hardback: 'A fine book on a very important subject often surrounded not just by controversy but plain lies. It is a book which all interested in the cultural heritage of the people of the world will find rewarding reading.' Sydney Morning HeraldReview of the hardback: 'An extremely readable and accessible account of the complex legal issues involved in the question of repatriation … a well thought out balanced presentation …' Current AnthropologyReview of the hardback: '… a very valuable and important work … presents fully researched discussions of scores of cases argued over many years concerning national requests for 'repatriation' and 'return' of art and artefacts.' American Journal of ArchaeologyReview of the hardback: 'The first edition of this highly readable study was an important landmark in the debates about the antiquities trade.' British ArchaeologyReview of the hardback: '… provides a very fair analysis of this complex issue … a beautifully produced book … a standard reference on the subject.' Australian SocietyReview of the hardback: 'Greenfield's book is an excellent guide for any would-be cultural politician.' Financial TimesReview of the hardback: '… a breakthrough book … which treats in a very detailed and illuminating and nuanced way, processes about which folklorists increasingly are … concerned: the expropriation of cultural capital and its use by powerful nation-states for the purposes of political legitimization, and then its repatriation, as a result of growing pressure from those from whom it was taken.' Lingua Franca'… essential for reflection and reference for anyone wishing to engage in the increasingly public debate about the ownership of cultural property. … There are substantial, enlightening studies of many specific cases, and very readable discussions of the complex moral, political and legal contexts. New additions include chapters on plunder, native rights to relics and human remains, and the deliberate deconstruction of art. It all benefits greatly from being a clear minded, single-authorised study rather than an edited collection' British Archaeology'The Return of Cultural Treasures is an enjoyable read. Greenfield is strong on facts and knows how to tell an attractive story. The volume is lively and rich in juicy morsels. It is also attractively presented, with 139 illustrations, most of them photos.' Journal of Business Law'Dr Greenfield has certainly produced a masterpiece which we can recommend to both beginners and specialists. I know of no other book on the issue of restitution which comes close to this book in its breadth of knowledge and careful detailed analysis.' ModernGhana.comTable of ContentsList of illustrations; Preface to the first edition; Preface to the second edition; Preface to the third edition; Acknowledgements; List of abbreviations; Introduction Magnus Magnusson; 1. The Icelandic manuscripts; 2. The Elgin Marbles debate; 3. British and other European practice; 4. Some British cases; 5. American and Canadian practice; 6. Russia and the former Soviet Union; 7. The Hebrew manuscripts; 8. International and regional regulation; 9. Art theft and the art market; 10. Plunder; 11. The first people; 12. Ground zero; 13. Homecomings: real and virtual; Notes; List of appendices in microfiche in first edition (1989); Select bibliography; Select list of web sites; Index.

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Book SynopsisFriedrich Rathgen (18621942) was a German chemist who made a profound contribution to the development of conservation science. First published in 1905, this book contains an English translation of Rathgen's 1898 work Die Konservierung von Altertumsfunden, the first comprehensive text on the subject of archaeological conservation.Table of ContentsAuthor's preface; Translator's preface; Literature; Part I. The Changes Undergone by Antiquities in Earth and in Air; Part II. The Preservation of Antiquities: 1. Preservation of objects composed of inorganic substances; Appendix. Cement for earthenware. Restorations; Appendix. Method of bringing out worn lettering upon coins; 2. Preservation of organic substances; Care of antiquities after preservative treatment; Concluding remarks; Appendix A. Method of taking squeezes of inscriptions; Appendix B. Zapon; Index.

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Book SynopsisWritten in 1870, this two-volume work covers the period 15701870. Volume 2 looks at some of the early book donors and George III's Royal Library, as well as later benefactors of the period 18291870.Table of ContentsBook II continued: 3. A group of book-lovers and public benefactors; 4. The King's or 'Georgian' Library; its collector, and its donor; 5. The founder of the Banksian Museum and Library; Book III. Later Augmentors and Benefactors 1729–1870: 1. General view of the history of the British Museum under Joseph Planta; 2. Introduction to Book III (continued) - growth, progress, and internal economy, of the British Mueum under Sir Henry Ellis; 3. Introduction to Book III (continued) - growth, progress, and internal economy, of the British Museum under Sir Antonio Panizzi; 4. Another group of archaeologists and explorers - the spoils of Xanthus, of Babylon, or Nineveh, of Halicarnassus, and of Cathage; 5. The founder of the Grenville Library; 6. Other benefactors of recent days; 7. Reconstructors and projectors; Index.

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Book SynopsisWhat it means to be global—or to be local—in the context of artistic, curatorial, and theoretical knowledge and practice.In this volume, an international, interdisciplinary group of writers discuss what it means to be global—or to be local—in the context of artistic, curatorial and theoretical knowledge and practice. Continuing the discussion begun in The Curatorial Conundrum (2016) and How Institutions Think (2017), Curating After the Global considers curating and questions of locality, geopolitical change, the reassertion of nation-states, and the violent diminishing of citizen and denizen rights across the globe.It has become commonplace to talk of a globalized art world and even to speak of contemporary art as a driver of globalization. This universalization of what art is or can be is often presumed to be at the cost of local traditions and any sense of locality and embeddedness. But need this be the case? The contribut

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Book SynopsisThe first to be created by and for Indigenous people, this handbook provides practical information that will enable each of the 34 unique Indigenous language and cultural groups in BC to carry out the process of repatriation in ways that align with the cultural traditions of each respective community.Trade Review"Our late friend and brother Rod Naknakim said, 'Reconciliation and repatriation cannot and should not be separated. The two must anchor our conversation and guide our efforts as we move forward collectively with common purpose and understanding.'" -- Dan Smith, BCMA Indigenous Advisory Chair, Nuyumbalees Cultural Centre

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Book SynopsisIn these 19 insightful and frequently witty meditations, Stephen E. Weil examines the purposes and functions of the museum in the late 20th century, proposing museums make encounters with a variety of visitors more central to their operation.

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Book SynopsisThis book presents the Complex-System Approach to Personality, which seeks to promote the development of integrative theorizing and subsumes particular insights from earlier models while permitting both within-person and between-person comparisons.Trade Review Prepublication praise: 'This book represents a substantial advance. The author develops a complex theoretical edifice that combines in a judicial way the biological, psychological, and situational approaches to personality. I am certain that Fajkowska's new theory will exert much influence in the years ahead.' (Michael W. Eysenck, Roehampton University, Whitelands College) 'A masterpiece. This book includes many new ideas, presents new material, and constitutes the platform for a new approach to personality. Fajkowska has attempted a tour de force and has written a book that will be difficult- if not impossible-for anyone interested in personality to overlook.' (Shulamith Kreitler, Tel Aviv University) 'In this book Malgorzata Fajkowska presents her Complex-System Approach to Personality, a pioneering attempt to integrate personality research that proposes a model in which temperament traits and attentional processes are functionally related. An original and unique contribution to the literature on personality.' (Jan Strelau, University of Social Sciences and Humanities) Table of ContentsPersonality coherence and incoherence: An overview of the book I. A Complex-System Approach to Personality Introduction: General view of a system-based approach to personality Chapter 1. A Complex-System Approach to Personality: Related meta-theoretical issues Chapter 2. Specifying the personality architecture within the Complex-System Approach to Personality: From related meta-theory to theory II. Anxiety and depression in the Complex-System Approach to Personality Introduction: Introducing anxiety and depressed mood: The complex phenomena Chapter 3. Anxiety and depression within the System of Integration and Regulation Stimulation Chapter 4. Anxiety and depression within the structure of coherent and incoherent types of personalities Chapter 5. Coherent/incoherent personality structures and attentional stimulation processing III. Epilogue Chapter 6. Looking to the future: A need for integrative models of personality References Index

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Book SynopsisAcross the globe, history has gone public. With the rise of the internet, family historians are now delving into archives continents apart. Activists look into and recreate the past to promote social justice or environmental causes. Dark and difficult pasts are confronted at sites of commemoration. Artists draw on memory and the past to study the human condition and make meaning in the present. As a result of this democratisation of history, public history movements have now risen to prominence.This groundbreaking edited collection takes a comprehensive look at public history throughout the world. Divided into three sections - Background, Definitions and Issues; Approaches and Methods; and Sites of Public History - it contextualises public history in eleven different countries, explores the main research skills and methods of the discipline and illustrates public history research with a variety of global case studies. What is Public History Globally? provides an in-depth examinaTrade ReviewThis book will appeal to those engaging with practical history. Each chapter explores Public History whilst engaging with current critical stances. International writers, using academic contexts, clearly illustrate important differences between nations and localities, developing new aspects of Public History. * Hilda Kean, Former Director of Public History, Ruskin College, Oxford, UK *The interrogative title poses an important question. It is answered in wonderfully diverse essays: eleven map the terrain of public history in distinct national contexts; nine examine particular methods and approaches, many across contexts; and four focus on specific sites with striking comparative or trans-national implications. This triangulation complements the editors’ intriguing and suggestive subtitle—‘working with the past in the present”: the collection as a whole is considerably more than the sum of the individually impressive parts. * Michael Frisch, Senior Research Scholar and Emeritus Professor in History, University of Buffalo, USA *Table of ContentsList of Figures List of Contributors Acknowledgements Introduction The Public Turn: History Today, Paul Ashton and Alex Trapeznik Section 1: Background, Definitions and Issues 1. Public History in Australia: History in Place, Lisa Murray and Mark Dunn 2. Public History in Britain: Repossessing the Past, Mark Donnelly 3. Public History in Canada: Service or Public Service?, Mike Dove and Michelle Hamilton 4. Public History in China: Past Making in the Present, Li Na 5. Public History in Germany: Opening New Spaces, Thorsten Logge and Nico Nolden 6. Public History in India: Towards a People’s Past, Indira Chowdhury and Srijan Mandal 7. Public History in Indonesia: The Old Disorder?, Paul Ashton, Kresno Brahmantyo and Jaya Keaney 8. Public History in New Zealand: From Treaty to Te Papa, Alex Trapeznik 9. Public History in Scandinavia: Uses of the Past, Anne Brædder 10. Public History in South Africa: A Tool for Recovery, Julie Wells 11. Public History in the USA: Institutionalizing Old Practices, Thomas Cauvin Section 2: Approaches and Methods 12. First Encounters: Approaching the Public Past, Meg Foster 13. Affective Afterlives: Public History, Archaeology and the Material Turn, Denis Byrne 14. The Archaeological Archive: Material Traces and Recovered Histories, Tracy Ireland 15. Archives and Public History: A Developing Partnership, Jeannette Bastian and Stephanie Krauss 16. ‘Speak, Memory’: Current Issues in Oral and Public History, Paula Hamilton 17. Who do you Think You Are?: The Family in Public History, Anna Green 18. Love Thy Neighbour: Local and Community history, Tanya Evans 19. Grass-Roots Activism, Heritage and Cultural Landscape: A Community Case Study, Keir Reeves and Jacqueline Z. Wilson 20. Past Continuous: Digital public history and social media, Serge Noiret Section 3: Sites of Public History 21. Remembering Dark Pasts and Horrific Places: Sites of Conscience, Paul Ashton and Jacqueline Z. Wilson 22. #Fake History: The State of Heritage Interpretation, Sue Hodges 23. ‘The air still rings with the excitement of Spanish life’: Ybor City and the Cuban Cigar, Christopher J. Castañeda 24. Forgetting and Remembering in Bhopal: Architects as Agents of Memory, Amritha Ballal and Moulshri Joshi Bibliography Index

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Book SynopsisAs the official companion book to 150th anniversary of the Canada's birth, this guide is also the companion to the Guide to the National Parks of Canada, 2nd Edition, created for all who will visit Canada parks during the birthday and celebrating the historic sites that are key in building the story of Canada.

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Book SynopsisCelebrates the resilience of American cultural institutions in the face of national crises and challengesOn an afternoon in January 1865, a roaring fire swept through the Smithsonian Institution. Dazed soldiers and worried citizens could only watch as the flames engulfed the museum's castle. Rare objects and valuable paintings were destroyed. The flames at the Smithsonian were not the firstand certainly would not be the last disaster to upend a museum in the United States. Beset by challenges ranging from pandemic and war to fire and economic uncertainty, museums have sought ways to emerge from crisis periods stronger than before, occasionally carving important new paths forward in the process. The Museum explores the concepts of crisis as it relates to museums, and how these historic institutions have dealt with challenges ranging from depression and war to pandemic and philosophical uncertainty. Fires, floods, and hurricanes have all upended museum plans Trade Review"The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience was a book born out of the pandemic. Originally conceived in early 2020 as a look at the current state of museums and where they were headed in the future, the project took on a new meaning – and a new trajectory – as the coronavirus swept across the globe…What emerged from that moment is a slender, taut work of scholarship that explores how museums have responded to crises both external and internal, beginning with the massive 1865 fire at the Smithsonian. In addition to the Smithsonian fire and the Spanish flu, Redman also looks at cataclysms like the Great Depression, the second world war, the coronavirus and the national protests following the death of George Floyd, as well as more existential crises like the culture wars of the 1980s and 90s and museums’ own legacies as agents of colonialism and exploitation." * The Guardian *"The book springs to life in an account of the 1970 Art Strike in New York, a largely failed but influential effort to goad museums into denouncing the Vietnam War. (The Metropolitan’s clumsy response gets deserved attention.) He causally links this to subsequent repatriation of Indigenous remains starting in the 1980s, and the maelstrom of controversy surrounding displaying the Enola Gay at the Air and Space Museum. Redman brings the story up to the minute in a final chapter contemplating the impacts of the antiracism movement and the global pandemic ... Contains many touchpoints of cultural history and is a timely, engaging read." * Library Journal *"Historian and professional Samuel J. Redman lends a fine analytical eye to the discussions that blend historical events with broader questions about museum operations, community presence, and special challenges. The result is a detailed blend of reports and analysis that charts the evolution of the museum and the nature of its contents." * Midwest Book Review *"The Museum: A Short History of Crisis and Resilience is the latest museological history by historian and former museum professional Samuel J. Redman…the author convincingly, succinctly, and accessibly argues that ‘museums as institutions have proven extraordinarily durable as cultural concepts’." * Museum History Journal *"The Museum takes the reader behind the displays that present the public face of culture and science, to show how they have changed and will have to change to not just survive but to have relevancy in our age. The writing in this thought-provoking book on a subject not generally known is clear and well-organized" -- Robert S. Davis * New York Journal of Books *"Redman deftly considers the critical issues, past and present, that affect museums, offering a fascinating introduction to the ideology, hopes for, and problems of museum building and collection curation." -- Claire Potter, The New School"This wise book understands that crisis and conflict bring change because people must act whether ready or not. Redman examines five key moments over the past 150 years in the United States when war, economic downturns, and popular unrest from both left and right challenged and transformed the country’s museums in ways that their leaders did not anticipate. An essential book for understanding the trajectory of US museums from the Civil War to the present." -- Richard Candida Smith, Professor Emeritus of History at the University of California, Berkeley"Redman deploys an innovative and provocative approach to considering the history of museums in the US during the twentieth century, framed in terms of how they responded to crises originating both within and outside the institution. The Museum presents a masterful synthesis of diverse historical sources offering the reader fresh insights into the role of museums in American society. Written to be accessible to a broad audience, it is the perfect text for anyone interested in the history of American museums, and more broadly twentieth-century cultural history." -- Raymond Silverman, Professor Emeritus of History of Art and Critical Museum Studies, University of Michigan

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Book SynopsisThe authors of this 216-page book from InterpPress have been studying nature centers since 1996 when they surveyed 100 nature centers and interviewed leaders in the field. The University of Texas Press originally published How to Create and Nurture a Nature Center in Your Community in 1998, when it received first place in NAI''s Media Award Competition. Since then, almost 3,000 copies have sold and traveled as far as Africa, Japan, and South America. This revised edition provides up-to-date information and expanded discussion of topics key to nature center development. It outlines lessons learned since the first edition and important new developments in the field. The new edition includes updated information regarding organizations and resources, as well as expanded coverage of financial and organizational issues and government-based nature centers. The book, printed in full color, features more than 200 photographs.

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Book SynopsisWhere did the profession of heritage interpretation begin? The History of Heritage Interpretation explores significant events in the history of the field, from its origins with the elders of tribal villages through the development of professional organizations around the world, with specific emphasis on the National Association for Interpretation in the United States. Essays are included from noted authors and pioneers in the field including Sam Ham, Ted Cable, Cem Basman, Sarah Blodgett, Chris Nelson, Jim Covel and Carolyn Ward.

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