Books in the Heritage, Culture and Identity series

Bringing together cultural anthropologists, archaeologists, historians and other scholars of food and heritage, this volume closely examines the ways in which the cultivation, preparation, and consumption of food is used to create identity claims of 'cultural heritage' on local, regional, national and international scales.

This book examines the heritage of the Great War in contemporary Britain. It addresses how the war maintains a place and value within British society through the usage of phrases, references, metaphors and imagery within popular, media, heritage and political discourse. Whilst the representation of the war within historiography, literature, art.

This book examines the World Heritage system and its global impact through diverse prisms, including its normative frameworks, constituent bodies, programme activities, personalities and key issues. Concentrating on the period between 1972 and 2000.

Ireland's recent bailout by the EU and IMF has led to much lamenting over the loss of the sovereignty struggled for by earlier generations, in particular by the revolutionaries who rose against the unpopular political authorities in 1916. In light of the upcoming centenary in 2016, the time now seems ripe, therefore, to ask: why.

Based on interviews with 80 men and 80 women ranging from 101 to 20 years, and from all over the world, this title provides insights into issues of identity, race, nationality, culture, politics, heritage and representation, giving a valuable view of what it means (and has meant over the past century) to be a European.

The fact that Africa continues to lag behind all regions of the world on every indicator of development is hardly contentious. However, there is fierce debate on why this should be the case, despite national and international efforts to reverse this situation. This book addresses issues which might provide some insights into the matter.

Explores the overlapping and often complex relationships between identity, memory, heritage and the cultural landscape. This book provides an overview of different approaches in the study of these relationships, combined with evidence from Ireland, England, Scotland and the United States.

Time and place play the central role in our understanding of Jewish civilisation, while place and space seem to be secondary categories at best. This anthology focuses on the manifold approaches to the perception and experience of Jewish places and hence sheds light on the diverse processes of Jewish place-making.

Using illustrations of the Greek monuments and ruins, this book examines the symbolic, ideological, geographical and aesthetic importance of Greek iconography for the Western world. It examines how Greek monuments are perceived as sublime national symbols and as a mythological and archetypal reference against which Western culture is measured.

Highlights the tools and information sources used by geographers and their applications to family history research. This book examines family history as a socio-cultural practice, including the activities of tourism, archival research, and DNA testing.

Forts are marks and wounds of the history of human violence. This book examines how this global but chameleonic network of forts can offer insights into both the geopolitics of Empire and their postcolonial legacies, and into the intersection of colonialism, memory, power and space in the postcolonial Lusophone world and beyond.

The 'visual' has long played a crucial and formative role in structuring the experiences, associations, expectations and understandings of heritage. This edited collection explores the production, use and consumption of visual imagery as an integral part of heritage within its broader social and political context.

Offers new insights into the practice of Empire.The contributors to this volume offer such a perspective, asserting the inadequacy of conventional 'self/other' binaries in postcolonial analysis which fail to recognise the complex ways in which space and place were implicated in constructing the individual experience of Empire.

'Sense of place' has become a familiar phrase, commonly used in professional and domestic situations to describe the emotional attachment people have to the places they hold dear and into which they are rooted. This title reviews the meanings of 'sense of place', and where it is useful in the context of heritage management practice.

Focusing on the interaction between history and memory and, in particular, on museums as a memory medium, this book deals with the memorialisation of the Highland Clearances over the twentieth century.

Deals with critical themes in the development of archaeology as a reflexive, self-critical discipline in the modern world. This book explores ethical, political and cultural tensions and responsibilities which need to be addressed by archaeologists when working within networks of global ecologies and communities.

Starting from the premise that heritage values are culturally and historically constructed, this book examines the effects of pluralist frameworks of value on how preservation is conceived. It describes the practicalities of managing the uncertainty and fluidity of the widely varying conceptions of heritage.

Illustrated by a series of international case studies, this book demonstrates how the forces of 'postcolonialism' in their various manifestations are accelerating social change and creating new and 'imagined' communities, some of which are potentially disruptive and which may well threaten the longer term sustainability of Southeast Asia.

Brings together a team of leading specialists to examine the policies of image and city marketing. Featuring case studies which illustrate diverse perspectives on linking culture, urbanism and history, this book reviews heritage and planning culture, looking at the experience of urbanism in the 'Old Historic City'.

Bringing together case studies from Ireland, Holland, Canada, Germany and Mexico, this book examines the link between senses of place and senses of time. It suggests that not only do place identities change through time, but imagined pasts also provide resources which the present selects and packages for its own purposes.

Within contemporary theorizations, memory is not often explored through the experience of geographically mobile, racialized populations. Using both visual and material culture, this book examines the value of 'landscape and memory' for postcolonial migrants living in Britain.

Around the world, visitors are drawn to visit murals painted on walls that express something about the politics, heritage and identity of the locations being visited. In some cases, murals created for political purposes become a point of interest for visitors; in others, murals have been painted to stimulate local economic development through to

This book presents current research and practice in community-led conservation. It argues that evaluation of the outcomes of locally-led, active participation shows demonstrable social, educational and personal benefits for participants. Bringing together UK and international case studies, the book combines analysis of theoretical and applied approaches, exploring the lived experiences of conservation projects in and with different communities. Responding to the need for deeper understanding of the outcomes of heritage conservation, it examines the engagement of local people and communities beyond the expert and specialist domain.

Pasargadae is the location of the tomb of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Through the ages it was Islamised and the tomb was ascribed to the Mother of Solomon. It was only at the beginning of the twentieth century that archaeological evidence demonstrated the relationship between the site and Cyrus and it was appropriated into conflicting political discourses on nationalism and Islamism while concurrently acknowledged as a national and then a World Heritages site. However, Pasargadae is neither an isolated World Heritage site, nor purely a symbol of abstract state politics. Pasargadae and its immediate vicinity constitute a living landscape occupied by villagers, nomads and tourists. This edited volume presents for the first time a broad, multi-disciplinary examination of Pasargadae by experts from both outside and within Iran. It specifically focuses on those disciplines that are absent from existing studies, such as ethnography, tourism and museum studies providing valuable insights into this fascinating place. In its totality, the book argues that to understand World Heritage sites and their problems fully, a holistic approach should be adopted, which considers the manifold of perspectives and issues. It also puts forward a novel approach to the question of heritage, representation and construction of collective identity from the framework of place.