Research Catalog

Title

Marketing heritage : archaeology and the consumption of the past / edited by Yorke Rowan & Uzi Baram.

Publication

Walnut Creek, Calif. : AltaMira Press, [2004], ©2004.

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Additional Authors

• Rowan, Yorke M.
• Baram, Uzi, 1964-

Description

x, 315 pages : illustrations, maps; 23 cm

Subject

• Cultural property > Protection
• Heritage tourism
• Excavations (Archaeology) > Interpretive programs
• Archaeology > Economic aspects
• Historic preservation

Bibliography (note)

• Includes bibliographical references and index.

Contents

Ch. 1. Archaeology after nationalism : globalization and the consumption of the past / Uzi Baram and Yorke Rowan -- Ch. 2. International conventions and cultural heritage protection / Bonnie Magness-Gardiner -- Ch. 3. The politics of playing fair, or, who's losing their marbles? / Morag Kersel -- Ch. 4. From Lord Elgin to James Henry Breasted : the politics of the past in the first era of globalization / Steve Vinson -- Ch. 5. Conflating past and present : marketing archaeological heritage sites in Ireland / Kelli Ann Costa -- Ch. 6. Mementos of the past : material culture of tourism at Stonehenge and Avebury / Amy Gazin-Schwartz -- Ch. 7. Where are the Maya in ancient Maya archaeological tourism? : advertising and the appropriation of culture / Traci Ardren -- Ch. 8. Archaeological research and cultural heritage management in Cambodia's Mekong Delta : the search for the "cradle of Khmer civilization" / Miriam T. Stark and P. Bion Griffin -- Ch. 9. Recovering the German nation : heritage restoration and the search for unity / Jason James -- Ch. 10. Deep dirt : messing up the past at Colonial Williamsburg / Eric Gable and Richard Handler -- Ch. 11. Targeting heritage : the abuse of symbolic sites in modern conflicts / Jonathan Golden -- Ch. 12. Tourism, the ideology of design, and the nationalized past in Zippori/Sepphoris, an Israeli national park / Joel Bauman -- Ch. 13. The roads to ruins : accessing Islamic heritage in Jordan / Erin Addison -- Ch. 14. Repackaging the pilgrimage : visiting the Holy Land in Orlando / Yorke Rowan -- Ch. 15. Is the medium the message? : the art of interpreting archaeology in U.S. national parks / Barbara J. Little -- Ch. 16. Engaging with heritage issues : the role of the World Archaeological Congress / Joan M. Gero -- Ch. 17. Making the past profitable in an age of globalization and national ownership : contradictions and considerations / Philip L. Kohl.

ISBN

• 0759103410 (hardcover : alk. paper)
• 0759103429 (pbk. : alk. paper)

LCCN

2003018533

OCLC

• ocm52901410
• SCSB-5105648

Owning Institutions

Columbia University Libraries