This book upturns the conventional understanding of heritage,
challenging widespread notions about how we relate to and why we
preserve the past. Heritage research is often based on the
assumption that heritage is something 'given' to us, that it is
good and valuable in its own right. However, by looking at the
historical and cultural roots of heritage and its development
through the Enlightenment, modernity and capitalism, Pablo Alonso
Gonzalez shows that it is in fact a system pervaded by fetishistic
social relationships, embedded in capitalism, and not as benign as
it appears. Focusing on a case study in the region of Maragateria,
Spain, Alonso Gonzalez explores the ethnic and racial
discrimination towards the local population in the context of
Spanish nationalism, and how this formed the region's heritage
today. By challenging mainstream scholarship in the field, The
Heritage Machine rethinks the relations between heritage, ideology
and capitalism.
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