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

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.

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.

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."

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.

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.

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

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.

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 .

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.

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.

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.