Heritage Studies

Thom Andersen's Los Angeles Plays Itself (2003), hailed as "a city symphony in reverse, " challenges whether the movies have ever really depicted L...

Reducere. Religion and spirituality have been scarcely addressed in heritage preservation history, discourse, and practice. More recently, increased interest...

DescriptionThe UNESCO Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage came into force in 2006, framing the international and na...

Publisher: Oxford University Press IncAuthor(s): Tim (Professor in Critical Heritage Studies, Professor in Critical Heritage Studies, University of...

Role-play as a Heritage Practice is the first book to examine physically performed role-enactments, such as live-action role-play (LARP), tabletop ...

A comprehensive review of the main issues and concepts related to heritage tourism. Illustrated throughout the text via examples and boxed case stu...

This edited book provides a broad collection of current critical reflections on heritage-making processes involving landscapes. It will appeal to r...

Cultural Heritage Tourism: Five Steps for Success and Sutainability helps managers and community leaders attract visitors to cultural heritage site...

Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, this book identifies and explores the use of heritage througho...

Communities and Cultural Heritage explores the relationship between communities, their cultural heritage, and the global forces that control most o...

"This book grew out of a workshop, Heritage, Culture and Rights: Challenging Discourses, which we convened under the auspices of the Australian Hum...

China's Route Heritage examines the creation, development and proliferation of the route heritage discourse of chama gudao, The Ancient Tea Horse R...

This ground-breaking book features architectural case studies of more than 50 industrial company towns - workers villages, mill towns, mining towns...

Prepared specifically to support social studies, map skills, early geography skills plus history and heritage topics in the National Standards Curr...

How do places manipulate our emotions? How are spaces affectious in their articulation and design? This book provides theoretical frameworks for ex...

This book focuses on cultural practices and policy for sustainable development in West Africa across different artistic disciplines, including perf...

Prepared specifically to support social studies, map skills, early geography skills plus history and heritage topics in Trinidad and Tobago.

Description Recent years have witnessed a rapid increase in the fields of cultural heritage studies and community archaeology worldwide with expand...

In the ancient city of Kyoto, contemporary artisans and designers are using heritage techniques and traditional clothing aesthetics to reinvent waf...

30 papers explore a wide range of topics such as women's voices in archaeological discourse; researching race and ethnicity across time; use of div...

Contributor(s): Author: Rachel Sutton-SpenceAuthor: Michiko KanekoThis is an accessible and comprehensive sign language textbook with an internatio...

Staging Indigenous Heritage examines the cultural politics of four Indigenous cultural villages in Malaysia. Cai demonstrates how they are often be...

The Seminar for Arabian Studies is the longest continually running academic forum for the presentation of cultural heritage research on the Arabian...

Reducere. Children and parents will love learning their very first ideas about North Carolina in My N.C. from A-Z. This colorful, sturdy board book celebrate...

Reducere. Indonesia: History, Heritage, Culture offers a concise, engaging introduction to the historical, political and cultural dynamics of Indonesia, the ...

DescriptionThis book explores medieval cityscapes within the modern urban environment, using place as a catalyst to forge connections between past ...

The collection proposes inventive research strategies for the study of the affective and fluctuating dimensions of cultural life. It presents studi...

What Have Charities Ever Done for Us? uses case studies and interviews to illustrate how charities support people and communities, foster heritage ...

Reducere. Presenting examples from the fields of critical race studies, cultural resource management, digital archaeology, environmental studies, and heritag...

Developed by an experienced educator, "Understanding the Gospel of Luke: A Study of the Jewish Roots Using the Hebrew Heritage Bible Translation" w...

Today thousands travel to religious sites for worship, initiatory and leisure purposes. This book provides a holistic approach to the study of thes...

The scholarship and teaching of manuscript studies has been transformed by digitisation, rendering previously rarefied documents accessible for stu...

Conditioned by local ways of knowing and doing, Great Zimbabwe develops a new interpretation of the famous World Heritage site of Great Zimbabwe.Pu...

Description Scholars have devoted considerable energy to understanding the history of ethnic cleansing in Europe, reconstructing specific events, s...

This book critically explores sport-related tourism drawing on the fields of sport management, the sociology of sport, consumer behaviour, sports m...

This book explores and challenges the relationship between tourism and development and establishes a conceptual link between the discrete yet inter...

Music therapy professionals cater to a diverse population, in terms of heritage, ethnicity, age, location, and identity. This book provides the kno...

The term "sense of place" is an important multidisciplinary concept, used to understand the complex processes through which individuals and groups ...

Museums and archives all over the world digitize their collections and provide online access to heritage material. But what factors determine the c...

Reducere. DescriptionThis book offers insights into changes brought about by the enormous growth of the internet. There are new ways to share cultural herita...

In Formative Assessment in the Disciplines, Margaret Heritage and E. Caroline Wylie explore the interconnection of ambitious teaching, formative as...

DescriptionPoetry. Native American Studies. Jennifer Reeser's INDIGENOUS is, by turns, a celebration of her Native American heritage and a lamentat...

Sonic ethnography reveals how sound plays a central role in the performance of local identities in the southern Italian region of Basilicata. By ex...

Reducere. Paul Helm breaks fertile ground in this survey of theological anthropology in the Reformed tradition. Acknowledging the rich patristic and medieval...

This volume exposes at once the nature of World War I and its depth and duration in personal lives. Contributors, including historians, museum prof...

Contributor(s): Author: Faith KaiserFiction. Women's Studies. Abigail Stewart returns to her childhood home in Coastal Alabama. Her need to embrace...

Reducere. Craft practice has experienced a sharp rise in popularity since the late 2000s, partly through the 'aura of the analogue' and the desire for authen...

Reducere. Contemporary French cinema is an essential introduction to popular French film of the last 35 years. It charts recent developments in all genres of...

Jews, Christians, and Muslims supposedly share a common religious heritage in the patriarch Abraham, and the idea that he should serve only as a so...

Reducere. Digital ethnography can be understood as a method for representing real-life cultures through storytelling in digital media. Enabling audiences to ...

Reducere. The 1676 killing of Metacomet, the tribal leader dubbed "King Philip" by colonists, is commonly seen as a watershed event, marking the end of a blo...

Historical Consciousness and the Use of the Past in the Ancient World offers linked essays on uses of the past in prominent and diverse cultures in...

Reducere. Although a number of important studies of American slavery have explored the formation of slave cultures in the English colonies, no book until now...

Reducere. A sweeping history of Judaism over more than three millenniaJudaism has preserved its distinctive identity despite the extraordinarily diverse form...

Reducere. An important work in the field of diaspora studies for the past decade, this collection has inspired scholars and others to explore a trail blazed ...

DescriptionFrom Oaxacan wood carvings to dessert kitchens in provincial France, Critical Craft presents thirteen ethnographies which examine what d...

Reducere. Contributor(s): Editor: Piyali BhattacharyaAuthor: Tarfia FaizullahLiterary Nonfiction. Asian & Asian American Studies. Women's Studies. GOOD GIRLS...

First published in 1952, Frantz Fanon's Black Skin, White Masks is one of the most important anti-colonial works of the post-war period. It is both...

Buddhism is a vast and complex religious and philosophical tradition with a history that stretches over 2, 500 years, and which is now followed by ...

The chapters in this volume, all written by experts in the field, present an array of new research on second language acquisition (SLA) that touche...

DescriptionTart, richly flavoured damsons have been growing in England since the island's earliest recorded history. Whether wild and foraged, or c...

Milman Parry and Albert B. Lord collected singularly important examples of Albanian epic song while conducting fieldwork in the Kingdom of Yugoslav...

Publisher: Arc Humanities PressIllustration(s): 10 Illustrations, black and whiteNumber of pages: 154Collection: Collection Development, Cultural H...

Reducere. A landmark account of the African American experience during the Civil War and its aftermath First published in 1892, this stirring novel by the gr...

Reducere. Literary Nonfiction. Latino/Latina Studies. Women's Studies. Revolution uprooted six-year-old Cecilia from her comfortable middle-class Cuban home ...

Reducere. When first published in 1981, "The Radical Enlightenment" encountered both praise and blame. In the course of time it became a classic. In the era ...

Reducere. The majesty of Earth's most magnificent features was the domain of Wilson Hurley (1924-2008). In paintings of natural wonders throughout the galaxy...

The Tourist Gaze, Third Edition restructures, reworks and remakes the groundbreaking previous versions making this successful book even more releva...

Reducere. In The Book of Exodus: Explorations in Christian Theology, scholar Ed Gallagher examines how the Book of Exodus served as the foundation for severa...

In recent years there has been growth in both the practice and research of dark tourism--the phenomenon of visiting sites of tragedy or disaster. E...