Books in the UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series series

This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in rural communities as they undergo the experience of exhumation, identification and reburial from nearby mass graves.

Shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users.

African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly 'come home' to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this book, the author analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan-)African family is produced among African hosts and Diasporan returnees and at the same time contested in practice.

Using an analysis of urban structure and cosmology, 1000 years of historical writing, and diverse archaeological materials, this book provides both a history of Quanzhou and a Chinese paradigm for civilizational studies, one distinctly different from Eurocentric models.

Taking a multi-sited, cross-cultural approach, this book investigates the relationship between cultural institutions in presenting intangible heritage. "

Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum.

This critical investigation highlights the politics of cultural heritage management, including authenticity and conservation, and its effects on the everyday lives of the peoples it claim to be representing through the example of Djenne in Mali."

Presents a critique of the underlying foundational concepts and values behind the Alexandria Library. This title draws upon an array of thinkers such as Freud, Derrida, Said, and Bernal, among others. It is intended for museologists, historians, archaeologists, cultural scholars, and heritage professionals.

Ricös critical ethnography analyses heritage practices in the aftermath of the tsunami that swamped Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in 2004 and the post-destruction narratives that accompanied it, showing the sociocultural, historical, and political agendas these discourses raise.

Rico's critical ethnography analyses heritage practices in the aftermath of the tsunami that swamped Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in 2004 and the post-destruction narratives that accompanied it, showing the sociocultural, historical, and political agendas these discourses raise.

In a fascinating series of cases from West Africa, anthropologists, archaeologists and art historians show how memory, heritage, identity and conservation play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts at the local, ethnic, national and global level .

Shows how memory and heritage play out in a variety of postcolonial contexts. This volume notes that questions of memory, heritage, identity and conservation are interwoven at the local, ethnic, national and global level and cannot be easily disentangled.

Argues for a shift in cultural heritage conservation, from a focus on maintaining the physical fabric of material culture towards the impact that conservation work has on people's lives. This book challenges the commodification of sacred objects and places by western conservation thought and attempts to decolonize conservation practice.