Understanding Heritage (eBook)

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Marie-Theres Albert and Britta Rudolf, BTU Cottbus-Senftenberg, Cottbus; Rudolf Bernecker, German Commission for UNESCO, Bonn.

Prefaces 5
The Cottbus Declaration on Heritage Studies: The Need for a Holistic Understanding of Heritage (2012) 11
Introduction 13
Heritage Studies – Paradigmatic Reflections 19
A Shift of Paradigm in Interpretation and Identification 29
Heritage Interpretation as Public Discourse: Towards a New Paradigm 31
Learning to Engage with Human Rights in Heritage 45
Cultural Landscape Theory and Practice: Moving from Observation to Experience 59
Concepts and Developments over the Course of Time 77
The Shift towards Conservation: Early History of the 1972 World Heritage Convention and Global Heritage Conservation 79
UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape 87
Managing Change: Integrating Impact Assessments in Heritage Conservation 99
Understanding Heritage – Beyond the Construction of Meanings 115
The Concept behind the Word: Translation Issues in Definitions of Heritage 117
The Absence of Presence: Museums and the “Performance” of Identity in a Caribbean Context 127
Materializing the Immaterial: On the Paradox of Medializing Intangible Cultural Heritage 145
Heritage in Transition – Challenges of New Media 163
Documentary Heritage, Digital Technologies and the Dissemination of Knowledge 165
Studying Heritage in the Digital Era 179
Meaning of the Internet for the Intangible Heritage Convention 193
Notes on Contributors 203
Index 209