Description
Book SynopsisMaking Heritage Together presents a case study of public archaeology by focusing on the collaborative creation of knowledge about the past with a rural community in central Crete. It is based on a long-term archaeological ethnography project that engaged this village community in collectively researching, preserving and managing their cultural heritage.
This volume presents the theoretical and local contexts for the project, explains the methodology and the project outcomes, and reviews in detail some of the public archaeology actions with the community as examples of collaborative, research-based heritage management. What the authors emphasize in this book is the value of local context in designing and implementing public archaeology projects, and the necessity of establishing methods to understand, collaborate and interact with culturally specific groups and publics. They argue for the implementation of archaeological ethnographic research as a method
Table of Contents
List of Figures; Preface and Acknowledgements; Introduction; Chapter 1: From looking from above to working from below; Chapter 2: Objects and object biographies in archaeology and heritage; Chapter 3: Negotiating walking routes to knowledge; Chapter 4: History and memory -performative practices in communal history-making; Chapter 5: Looking reflexively at community engagement; Index.
