European Products : : Making and Unmaking Heritage in Cyprus / / Gisela Welz.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2014-2015
• VerfasserIn: Welz, Gisela,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2015]; ©2015
• Year of Publication: 2015
• Language: English
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (204 p.)

On the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, rural villages, traditional artefacts, even atmospheres and experiences are considered heritage. Heritage making not only protects, but also produces, things, people, and places. Since the Republic of Cyprus joined the European Union in 2004, heritage making and Europeanization are increasingly intertwined in Greek-Cypriot society. Against the backdrop of a long-term ethnographic engagement, the author argues that heritage emerges as an increasingly standardized economic resource, a “European product.” Implemented in historic preservation, rural tourism, culinary traditions, nature protection, and urban restoration projects, heritage policy has become infused with transnational market regulations and neoliberal property regimes.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Acknowledgements -- Abbreviations -- Map of Cyprus -- Introduction -- Part I. Heritage Regimes -- CHAPTER 1 Preserving Vernacular Architecture -- CHAPTER 2 Packaging Hospitality -- CHAPTER 3 Inventing the Rural -- PART II Food, Culture and Heritagization -- CHAPTER 4 ‘Full Meze’ Tourism, Modernity, Crisis -- CHAPTER 5 ‘Origin Food’ The Struggle over Halloumi -- PART III Ambient Heritage -- CHAPTER 6 The Nature of Heritage Making Environmental Governance -- CHAPTER 7 The Divided City Europe and the Politics of Culture -- Conclusion -- Bibliography -- Index