Heritage studies methods and approaches /

• Other Authors: Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig., Carman, John, 1952-
• Format: Electronic
• Language: English
• Published: London ; New York : Routledge, 2009.
• Subjects: Cultural property > Protection.; Historic sites > Conservation and restoration.; National characteristics > Study and teaching.; Ethnicity > Study and teaching.; History > Study and teaching.; Civilization > Study and teaching.; SOCIAL SCIENCE > General.; BUSINESS & ECONOMICS > Infrastructure.; Cultuurgoed.; Culturele studies.; Electronic books.
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This is the first volume specifically dedicated to the consolidation and clarification of Heritage Studies as a distinct field with its own means of investigation. It presents the range of methods that can be used and illustrates their application through case studies from different parts of the wor...

Table of Contents:

• Setting the scene. Introduction: Making the means transparent : reasons and reflections / Marie Louise Stig Sorensen and John Carman ; Heritage studies : an outline / John Carman and Marie Louise Stig Sorensen ; Public archaeology in the United States in the early twenty-first century / Barbara J. Little
• Heritage methodologies : investigating texts. The history of heritage : a method in analysing legislative historiography / Hilary A. Soderland ; Means maketh the end : the context for the development of methodologies to assess the state of the historic environment in the UK / Ian Baxter ; Methods used to investigate the use of the past in the formation of regional identities / Ulrike Sommer
• Heritage methodologies : investigating people. Reflections on the practice of ethnography within heritage tourism / Catherine Palmer ; Heritage ethnography as a specialised craft : grasping maritime heritage in Bermuda / Charlotte Andrews ; Between the lines and in the margins : interviewing people about attitudes to heritage and identity / Marie Louise Stig Sorensen ; Walking a fine line : obtaining sensitive information using a valid methodology / Morag M. Kersel ; Methods for investigating locals' perceptions of a cultural heritage product for tourism : lessons from Botswana / Susan Keitumetse ; The public archaeology of African America : reflections on pragmatic methods and their results / Carol McDavid
• Heritage methodologies : investigating things. The use if GIS in landscape heritage and attitudes to place : digital deep maps / Matthew Fitzjohn ; Making them draw : the use of drawings when researching public attitudes towards the past / Grete Lillehammer ; The heritagescape : looking at heritage sites / Mary-Catherine E. Garden ; The intangible presence : investigating battlefields / John Carman and Patricia Carman
• Commentaries. Heritage and methodology : a view from social anthropology / Paola Filippucci ; Where is the discipline in heritage studies? A view from environmental psychology / David Uzzell.