Heritage & Conservation
All aspects of the definition and preservation of cultural heritage and human interaction with the past, from conservation techniques to museum studies, contested pasts, and concepts of cultural property
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African Homecoming: Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage [Paperback]
Katharina Schramm (Author)
£29.50ISBN: 9781598745146
Published by : Left Coast Press
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 nuanced analysis of homecoming, Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared ... .... Learn More -
Inconvenient Heritage: Erasure and Global Tourism in Luang Prabang [Hardback]
Lynne M. Dearborn (Author);John C. Stallmeyer (Author)
£66.50ISBN: 9781598744354
Published by : Left Coast Press
The major international recognition of a World Heritage Site designation can bring important preservation efforts and a wealth of tourist dollars to an impoverished areabut it can also have destructive side effects. In a revealing study with le... .... Learn More -
Metropolitan Museum Studies in Art, Science and Technology 2010, Volume 1 [Paperback]
Sylvia Centeno (Author);Nora Kennedy (Author);Marijn Manuels (Author);Deborah Schorsch (Author)
£45.00ISBN: 9780300151602
Published by : Yale University Press
This is the first volume in a new series focused on the technical study of museum objects through the collaborative efforts of conservators, research scientists, and curators. Written for a professional audience, the publication underscores th... .... Learn More -
Conservation Approaches to Earthen Architecture in Archaeological Contexts [Paperback]
Louise Cooke (Author)
£58.00ISBN: 9781407306889
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This publication summarises research investigating approaches to the conservation and management of earthen architecture. It explores approaches to earthen architecture around the world, and with particular reference to the study area - Iran, ... .... Learn More -
Archaeology, Conservation and the City: Post-Conflict Redevelopment in London, Berlin and Beirut [Paperback]
Caroline A Sandes (Author)
£31.00ISBN: 9781407307015
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This volume looks at archaeological conservation in an urban context, looking at why sites have been historically (since WWII)selected for conservation, focusing in particular on fragmentary sites rather than major monuments. Sandes takes Londo... .... Learn More -
Stewards and Stakeholders of the Archaeological Record: Archaeologists, Folklore and Burial Mounds in Agder, Southern Norway [Paperback]
Atle Omland (Author)
£46.00ISBN: 9781407306957
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The main objective of this book is to discuss the afterlife and reception of burial mounds by studying local interest in them through folklore, but also through disturbance and monument reuse. To this end, the study discusses folklore concerni... .... Learn More -
Recorriendo la Memoria: Touring Memory [Paperback]
Jaime Almansa Sanchez (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9781407307121
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
The papers in this volume, originally given at the JIA 2009, explore memories generated by conflict and the part which archaeology can play in processes of retriving and healing memories which have been suppressed, and in rebuilding and reconf... .... Learn More -
Heritage Management of Farmed and Forested Landscapes in Europe [Hardback]
Stephen Trow (Author); Vincent Holyoak (Author); Emmet Byrnes (Author)
£30.00ISBN: 9789639911178
Published by : Archaeolingua
Series: EAC Occasional Paper
Volume: 4
Some 40 per cent of Europe is farmed and 47 per cent forested. The future of the majority of Europes archaeological sites therefore depends on rural land uses that lie outside the spatial planning and development control systems of its various ... .... Learn More -
Behind the Colonnade [Paperback]
Norman Jacobs (Author)
£9.99ISBN: 9780752452791
Published by : The History Press
Norman Jacobs worked at the British Museum for thirty-seven years, acquiring experience in a variety of roles and witnessing the highs and lows that beset the Museum in the last three decades of the twentieth century, from the 'Hypocrisy at the... .... Learn More -
The Orthodox Christian Sakkos: Ecclesiastical Garments Dating from the 15th to the 20th Centuries from the Holy Mountain of Athos [Paperback]
Christos Karydis (Author)
£63.00ISBN: 9781407307169
Published by : British Archaeological Reports
This work focuses on the research findings from a collection survey of post-Byzantine ecclesiastical garments, known as sakkoi, from the Holy Mountain of Athos. The survey examines fifty two sakkoi from fourteen monasteries, identifying constr... .... Learn More