Description
Book SynopsisA radical critique of the heritage industries.
Trade Review'The Heritage Machine pushes us to question disciplinary boundaries through a well-crafted and critical analysis of 'heritage' that combines introspection with ethnographic approaches. Gonzalez's provocation in this book is radical' -- Dante Angelo, Universidad de Tarapac, Chile
'Gonzalez identifies the varied and complex agency of a once despised and now exoticized population against the oppressive backdrop of Spanish nationalism and international neoliberalism. He thereby also throws down a provocative gauntlet to current assumptions in academic heritage discourse' -- Michael Herzfeld, Ernest E. Monrad Professor of the Social Sciences, Harvard University
'An engaging and theoretically grounded analysis of 'heritage' as a form of relation in fetishist societies. Alonso offers an insightful ethnographic exploration while deconstructing the Maragato myth, one of the 'damned peoples' of Spain' -- Cristina Sanchez-Carretero, Spanish National Research Council
Table of ContentsList of Figures
Series Preface
1. Introduction
2. The Emergence of Heritage
3. Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Spain
4. The Subordination of Peasants in Maragateria
5. Before Heritage: 'Juntas Vecinales' and 'Tamboriteros'
6. Social Construction of Heritage in the Teleno Military Shooting Range
7. Pseudo-archaeology and the Critique of Heritage Epistemology
8. Return to the Countryside in Prada de la Sierra
9. The Heritage Machine in Val de San Lorenzo
10. The Spectacle of the Other and the Negation of Heritage
Bibilography
Index
