World Heritage on the Ground : : Ethnographic Perspectives / / ed. by Christoph Brumann, David Berliner.

• Superior document: Title is part of eBook package: De Gruyter Berghahn Books Complete eBook-Package 2016
• MitwirkendeR: Berliner, David,; Breglia, Lisa,; Brumann, Christoph,; Chalcraft, Jasper,; Istasse, Manon,; Joy, Charlotte,; Meskell, Lynn,; Miura, Keiko,; Probst, Peter,; Salazar, Noel B.,; Wang, Shu-Li,; Zhu, Yujie,
• HerausgeberIn: Berliner, David,; Brumann, Christoph,
• Place / Publishing House: New York; , Oxford : : Berghahn Books, , [2016]; ©2016
• Year of Publication: 2016
• Language: English
• Series: EASA Series ; 28
• Physical Description: 1 online resource (336 p.)

The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of the UNESCO heritage regime. This book shows how local and national circumstances interact with the global institutional framework in complex and unexpected ways. Often, the communities around World Heritage sites are constrained by these heritage regimes rather than empowered by them.

Table of Contents

Frontmatter -- Contents -- Figures -- Introduction: UNESCO World Heritage – Grounded? -- Part I Cities -- Chapter 1 Affects and Senses in a World Heritage Site People-House Relations in the Medina of Fez -- Chapter 2 ‘UNESCO is What?’ World Heritage, Militant Islam and the Search for a Common Humanity in Mali -- Chapter 3 Heritage Making in Lijiang: Governance, Reconstruction and Local Naxi Life -- Chapter 4 Multiple Nostalgias: The Fabric of Heritage in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR) -- Part II Archaeological Sites -- Chapter 5 Thinking Globally and Acting Locally in Angkor -- Chapter 6 One List, a World of Difference? The Dynamics of Global Heritage at Two Neighbouring Properties -- Chapter 7 Civilization and the Transformation of Xiaotun Village at Yin Xu Archaeological Site, China -- Chapter 8 The Business of Wonder: Public Meets Private at a World Heritage Site -- Part III Cultural Landscapes -- Chapter 9 Decolonizing the Site: The Problems and Pragmatics of World Heritage in Italy, Libya and Tanzania -- Chapter 10 Prickly Prestations: Living with (World) Heritage in Osogbo, Nigeria -- Chapter 11 Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape: Extractive Economies and Endangerment on South Africa’s Borders -- Conclusion: Imagining the Ground from Afar: Why the Sites Are so Remote in World Heritage Committee Sessions -- Index