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'Archaeologizing' Heritage? Transcultural Entanglements between Local Social Practices and Global Virtual Realities /

This book investigates what has constituted notions of "archaeological heritage" from colonial times to the present. It includes case studies of sites in South and Southeast Asia with a special focus on Angkor, Cambodia. The contributions, the subjects of which range from architectural and...

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Bibliographic Details
Corporate Author: SpringerLink (Online service)
Other Authors: Falser, Michael. (Editor), Juneja, Monica. (Editor)
Format: Electronic
Language:English
Published: Berlin, Heidelberg : Springer Berlin Heidelberg : Imprint: Springer, 2013.
Series:Transcultural Research  Heidelberg Studies on Asia and Europe in a Global Context,
Subjects:
Social sciences.
Information systems.
Social Sciences.
Cultural Studies.
Computer Appl. in Arts and Humanities.
Online Access:https://ezaccess.library.uitm.edu.my/login?url=http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-35870-8
Table of Contents:
  • Archaeologizing Heritage and Transcultural Entanglements  an Introduction
  • Part I: Archaeologizing Heritage I  India between the Manual and the Picturesque
  • A Conservation Code for the Colony: John Marshalls Conservation Manual and Monument Preservation between India and Europe
  • Picturesque Authenticity in Early Archaeological Photography
  • Part II: Archaeologizing Heritage II  Creating Visual and Spatial Experiences of Angkor
  • Virtual Visions of Angkor: Plaster Casts and Drawings in the Indochinese Museum of the Trocadero
  • From Colonial Map to Visitors Parcours  Tourist Guides and the Spatiotemporal Making of the Archaeological Park of Angkor
  • Part III: Virtualizing Heritage I  The Surface and the Image
  • Realitybased Virtual Models in Cultural Heritage
  • 3D Modelling of Angkor Temple Based on Religious Conception
  • Part IV: Virtualizing Heritage II  Computer Models for Building Research
  • The Giant Buddha figures in Afghanistan - Virtual Reality for a Physical Reconstruction?
  • Virtualizing the Temple of Bayon
  • Part V: Restoration and Interpretation  Of Virtual Models and Living Communities
  • Between On Site-Conservation and Scientific Computing: A Future for the Twelfth-Century Banteay Chhmar Temple Complex
  • Angkor: Preserving World Heritage and the Role of Interpretation
  • Developing Conservation Approaches to Living Heritage at Angkor: The Conservation of the Statue of Ta Reach
  • Part VI: Memorializing Archaeology  Archaeologizing Memory
  • Today's Pagan  Conservation under the Generals
  • The Angkorian Palimpsest: The Daily Life of Villagers Living on a World Heritage Site
  • The Living Archaeology of a Painful Heritage: The First and Second Life of the Khmer Rouge Mass Graves.

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