World Heritage on the Ground -

World Heritage on the Ground

Ethnographic Perspectives
Buch | Hardcover
336 Seiten
2016
Berghahn Books (Verlag)
978-1-78533-091-9 (ISBN)
133,40 inkl. MwSt
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 is a key arena for contemporary cultural and natural conservation. In case studies from across the globe, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of this heritage regime.
The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of the UNESCO heritage regime. This book shows how local and national circumstances interact with the global institutional framework in complex and unexpected ways. Often, the communities around World Heritage sites are constrained by these heritage regimes rather than empowered by them.

Christoph Brumann is Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.

List of Illustrations



Introduction: UNESCO World Heritage – Grounded?

Christoph Brumann and David Berliner



PART I: CITIES



Chapter 1. Affects and Senses in a World Heritage Site: People–House Relations in the Medina of Fez

Manon Istasse



Chapter 2. 'UNESCO is What?' World Heritage, Militant Islam and the Search for a Common Humanity in Mali

Charlotte Joy



Chapter 3. Heritage-making in Lijiang: Governance, Reconstruction and Local Naxi Life

Yujie Zhu



Chapter 4. Multiple Nostalgias: The Fabric of Heritage in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR)

David Berliner



PART II: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITES



Chapter 5. Thinking Globally and Acting Locally in the Angkor World Heritage Site

Keiko Miura



Chapter 6. One List, a World of Difference? The Dynamics of Global Heritage at Two Neighbouring Properties

Noel B. Salazar



Chapter 7. Civilization and the Transformation of Xiaotun Village at Yin Xu Archaeological Site, China

Shu-Li Wang



Chapter 8. The Business of Wonder: Public Meets Private at the World Heritage Site of Chichén Itzá

Lisa Breglia



PART III: CULTURAL LANDSCAPES



Chapter 9. Decolonizing the Site: The Problems and Pragmatics of World Heritage in Italy, Libya and Tanzania

Jasper Chalcraft



Chapter 10. The Values of Exchange and the Issue of Control: Living with (World) Heritage in Osogbo, Nigeria

Peter Probst



Chapter 11. Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape: Extractive Economies and Endangerment on South Africa's Borders

Lynn Meskell



CODA



Conclusion: Imagining the Ground from Afar: Why the Sites are so Remote in World Heritage Committee Sessions

Christoph Brumann

Reihe/Serie EASA Series
Verlagsort Oxford
Sprache englisch
Maße 152 x 229 mm
Gewicht 617 g
Themenwelt Kunst / Musik / Theater
Geisteswissenschaften Geschichte Hilfswissenschaften
Sozialwissenschaften Ethnologie
Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie
ISBN-10 1-78533-091-8 / 1785330918
ISBN-13 978-1-78533-091-9 / 9781785330919
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