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Counterheritage - Critical Perspectives on Heritage Conservation in Asia (Paperback)
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Counterheritage - Critical Perspectives on Heritage Conservation in Asia (Paperback)
Series: Routledge Studies in Heritage
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The claim that heritage practice in Asia is Eurocentric may be
well-founded, but the view that local people in Asia need to be
educated by heritage practitioners and governments to properly
conserve their heritage distracts from the responsibility of
educating oneself about the local-popular beliefs and practices
which constitute the bedrock of most people's engagement with the
material past. Written by an archaeologist who has long had one
foot in the field of heritage practice and another in the academic
camp of archaeology and heritage studies, Counterheritage is at
once a forthright critique of current heritage practice in the
Asian arena and a contribution to this project of self-education.
Popular religion in Asia - including popular Buddhism and Islam,
folk Catholicism, and Chinese deity cults - has a constituency that
accounts for a majority of Asia's population, making its exclusion
from heritage processes an issue of social justice, but more
pragmatically it explains why many heritage conservation programs
fail to gain local traction. This book describes how the tenets of
popular religion affect building and renovation practices and
describes how modernist attempts to suppress popular religion in
Asia in the early and mid-twentieth century impacted religious
'heritage.' Author Denis Byrne argues that the campaign by
archaeologists and heritage professionals against the private
collecting and 'looting' of antiquities in Asia largely ignores the
regimes of value which heritage discourse has helped erect and into
which collectors and local diggers play. Focussing on the
Philippines, Thailand, and Taiwan but also referencing China and
other parts of Southeast Asia, richly detailed portraits are
provided of the way people live with 'old things' and are affected
by them. Narratives of the author's fieldwork are woven into
arguments built upon an extensive and penetrating reading of the
historical and anthropological literature. The critical stance
embodied in the title 'counterheritage' is balanced by the optimism
of the book's vision of a different practice of heritage,
advocating a view of heritage objects as vibrant, agentic things
enfolded in social practice rather than as inert and passive
surfaces subject to conservation.
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