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

Reducere. The beginning of Owen Sound can be traced to the 1840 historical meeting, in a small forest clearing, between surveyor Charles Rankin and land agen...

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

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

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

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

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...

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

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

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

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

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

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

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

Reducere. Born in 1848, Luisa is a young woman raised in the mountains of Adjuntas, Puerto Rico. Luisa's coming of age life experiences take us through famil...

Reducere. What are the future prospects for literary knowledge now that literary texts--and the material remains of authorship, publishing, and reading--are ...

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

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

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

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

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

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. Read & Co. presents this new edition of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours. First published in 1814, this small volume comprises a collection of 110 ...

DescriptionCelebrating Biblical and Jewish holidays is most characteristic of the Messianic Jewish movement, and it arouses much interest among Gen...

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. Throughout its 4, 000-year history, Korea has created a vibrant and unique culture. Unfortunately, many believe it developed solely due to China's ...

Reducere. A Black descendant of Thomas Jefferson and Sally Hemings' family explores America's racial reckoning through the prism of her ancestors--both the e...

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...

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

Reducere. Masterfully fulfilled by Peter Fedynsky, Voice of America journalist and expert on Ukrainian studies, this first ever English translation of the co...

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

Reducere. Describing the radical transformation in German Infantry tactics that took place during World War I, this book presents the first detailed account ...

Reducere. News stories and academic studies often focus on the options chosen by a president and his officials during a crisis. Central to such decisions, ho...

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

- A unique account of how the architectural titan Moshe Safdie's body of unrealized works might have changed the course of historyMoshe Safdie expl...

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

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

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

Reducere. Poetry. Native American Studies. Deluxe redesign of the Gerald Lampert Award-winning classic. On the occasion of the press's 40th anniversary, Bric...

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

Reducere. "A masterful overview of archaeological work on American gravestones and cemeteries that should be on the shelf of every student and scholar of mor...

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...

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

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. 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. Enduring Critical Poses examines the stories, poems, plays, and histories centered in the Great Lakes region of North America, where the Anishinaab...

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...

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

Reducere. Set against the background of the antebellum slave trade, Drums and Shadows traces the persistence of African heritage in the culture of blacks liv...

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

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...

This book draws on the work of anthropologist Alfred Gell to reinstate the importance of the object in art and society. Rather than presenting art ...

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

Conversations With Food offers readers an array of essays revealing the power of food (and its absence) to transform relationships between the huma...

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

Reducere. The book of Psalms has been precious to countless people in many languages and countries over many centuries. It has expressed their hopes and fear...

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...

DescriptionOxfordshire has a proud history as an agricultural county, relying for centuries on the wool trade for its prosperity. It is also famous...

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...

Description With internationalist aspirations and wide-ranging historical perspectives, East German films about artists and their work became hotly...

Reducere. Over many centuries, African people have offered the world an abundance or proverbs, fables, riddles, songs, and poetry that have been passed down ...

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

Reducere. Read & Co. presents this new edition of Werner's Nomenclature of Colours. First published in 1814, this small volume comprises a collection of 110 ...

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

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

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

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...

Drawing on more than twenty years of fieldwork, this book explores the professional, social, and cultural world of Burgundy wines, the role of terr...

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...