Mobilizing Heritage: Anthropological Practice And Transnational Prospects

Mapping out emerging areas of interest in cultural heritage management, this book offers an anthropological perspective on the growing field of critical heritage studies. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels looks back on the anthropological foundations for cultural heritage research and looks forward to the ways practitioners can reach beyond national borders through economic development, climate action, democratic practice, heritage rights, and global justice. These areas fall outside the traditional authority of the nation-state and intergovernmental treaty?based organizations such as UNESCO, operating through transnational networks. Lafrenz Samuels argues that thinking transnationally about heritage involves an important shift from a paradigm of preservation to a paradigm of development. She discusses how this expanding sensibility makes heritage management a persuasive tool for transformative action. Together, anthropological and transnational approaches provide important insights about different cultures from the bottom up and allow the discipline to shape and mobilize social change.

• | Author: Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels, Paul A. Shackel
• | Publisher: University Press Of Florida
• | Publication Date: Mar 27, 2018
• | Number of Pages: 262 pages
• | Language: English
• | Binding: Hardcover/Social Science
• | ISBN-10: 0813056640
• | ISBN-13: 9780813056647