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Title Understanding heritage : perspectives in heritage studies / editors, Marie-Theres Albert, Roland Bernecker, Britta Rudolff.

Publication Info. Berlin : Walter de Gruyter, 2013.
Berlin : De Gruyter, [2013]
ß2013

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Description 1 online resource (x, 200 pages) : illustrations (colour).
20130415
20130415 IP
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Series Heritage Studies ; 1
Heritage Studies.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Prefaces; The Cottbus Declaration on Heritage Studies: The Need for a Holistic Understanding of Heritage (2012); Introduction; Heritage Studies -- Paradigmatic Reflections; A Shift of Paradigm in Interpretation and Identification; Heritage Interpretation as Public Discourse: Towards a New Paradigm; Learning to Engage with Human Rights in Heritage; Cultural Landscape Theory and Practice: Moving from Observation to Experience; Concepts and Developments over the Course of Time; The Shift towards Conservation: Early History of the 1972 World Heritage Convention and Global Heritage Conservation.
UNESCO Recommendation on the Historic Urban LandscapeManaging Change: Integrating Impact Assessments in Heritage Conservation; Understanding Heritage -- Beyond the Construction of Meanings; The Concept behind the Word: Translation Issues in Definitions of Heritage; The Absence of Presence: Museums and the "Performance" of Identity in a Caribbean Context; Materializing the Immaterial: On the Paradox of Medializing Intangible Cultural Heritage; Heritage in Transition -- Challenges of New Media; Documentary Heritage, Digital Technologies and the Dissemination of Knowledge.
Studying Heritage in the Digital EraMeaning of the Internet for the Intangible Heritage Convention; Notes on Contributors; Index.
Summary The present publication is the first in a new series on existing and innovative paradigms in Heritage Studies. It offers its own emphasis by developing heritage studies with a perspective towards and as a contribution to human development. The publication thus establishes first important points for discussion by reflecting on paradigms of heritage and discussing theoretical positions and application oriented questions within their historic contexts.
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Subject Historic preservation.
Historic preservation.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Added Author Albert, Marie-Theres, editor.
Bernecker, Roland, editor.
Rudolff, Britta, editor.
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