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Decolonising Heritage in South Asia - The Global, the National and the Transnational (Paperback)
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Decolonising Heritage in South Asia - The Global, the National and the Transnational (Paperback)
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This volume cross-examines the stability of heritage as a concept.
It interrogates the past which materialises through multi-layered
narratives on monuments and other objects that sustain cultural
diversity. It seeks to understand how interpretations of
"monuments" as "texts" are affected at the local level of
experience, even as institutions such as UNESCO work to globalise
and fix constructs of stable and universal heritage. Shifting away
from a largely Eurocentric concept associated with architecture and
monumental archaeology, this book reassesses how local and regional
heritage needs to be balanced with the global and transnational. It
argues that material objects and monuments are not static
embodiments of culture but are, rather, a medium through which
identity, power and society are produced and reproduced. This is
especially relevant in South and Southeast Asian contexts, where
debates over heritage often have local, regional and national
political implications and consequences. Reevaluating how
traditional valuation of monuments and cultural landscapes could
help aid sustainability and long-term preservation of the heritage,
this book will be useful for scholars and researchers of South and
Southeast Asian history, heritage studies, archaeology, cultural
studies, tourism studies and political history as well.
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