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Shared Knowledge, Shared Power - Engaging Local and Indigenous Heritage (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
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Shared Knowledge, Shared Power - Engaging Local and Indigenous Heritage (Paperback, 1st ed. 2018)
Series: SpringerBriefs in Archaeology
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This volume brings together the experiences and research of
heritage practitioners, archaeologists, and educators to explore
new and unique approaches to heritage studies. The last several
decades have witnessed a rapid increase in the field of cultural
heritage studies worldwide. This increase in the number of studies
and in interest by the public as well as academics has effected
substantial change in the understanding of heritage and approaches
to heritage studies. This change has also impacted the perception
of communities, how to study and protect the physical residues of
heritage, and how to share the knowledge of heritage. It has
brought the issue of who has knowledge and how the value of
heritage can be shared more effectively with communities who then
ascribe meaning and value to heritage materials. Heritage studies,
until a few decades ago, exclusively studied the material culture
of the past as part of elitist approaches that completely neglected
communities' rights to knowledge of their own heritage.
Additionally, heritage practitioners and archaeologists neither
shared this knowledge nor engaged with communities about their
heritage. Communities were also mostly deprived from contributing
to heritage and archaeological studies. This kind of top-down
approach was quite common in many parts of the world. But recent
studies and research in the field have shown the importance of
including the public in projects, and that sharing the knowledge
produced through heritage studies and archaeological works is
significant for the protection and preservation of heritage
materials; it has finally been understood that excluding the public
from heritage is not ethical. This publication presents a wide
array of case studies with different approaches and methods from
many parts of the world to answer these questions.
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