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Critical Theory and the Anthropology of Heritage Landscapes Reprint Edition
Author(s): Melissa F. Baird (Author)
- Publisher: University Press of Florida
- Publication Date: November 29, 2022
- Edition: Reprint
- Language: English
- Print length: 170 pages
- ISBN-10: 0813080096
- ISBN-13: 9780813080093
Book Description
This book explores the sociopolitical contexts of heritage landscapes and the many issues that emerge when different interest groups attempt to gain control over them. Based on career-spanning case studies undertaken by the author, this book looks at sites with deep indigenous histories.
Melissa Baird pays special attention to Uluru-Kata Tjuta National Park and the Burrup Peninsula along the Pilbara Coast in Australia, the Altai Mountains of northwestern Mongolia, and Prince William Sound in Alaska. For many communities, landscapes such as these have long been associated with cultural identity and memories of important and difficult events, as well as with political struggles related to nation-state boundaries, sovereignty, and knowledge claims.
Drawing on the emerging field of critical heritage theory and the concept of “resource frontiers,” Baird shows how these landscapes are sites of power and control and are increasingly used to promote development and extractive agendas. As a result, heritage landscapes face social and ecological crises such as environmental degradation, ecological disasters, and structural violence. She describes how heritage experts, industries, government representatives, and descendant groups negotiate the contours and boundaries of these contested sites and recommends ways such conversations can better incorporate a critical engagement with indigenous knowledge and agency.
A volume in the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel
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