Museums- & Denkmalkunde

This book examines the development of Cultural and Creative Industries (CCI) in China

Curating empire explores the diverse roles played by museums and their curators in

This book offers a detailed case study of the transfer of ownership to Nigeria in November

How was heritage understood and implemented in European socialist states after World War

There is a call in Heritage Studies to democratize heritage practices and place local

Der vorliegende Band ist er erste einer neuen Reihe über innovative Paradigmen in den

A characteristic trait of the maritime museums is that they are often located in a

This book examines the issues arising from British contested history by looking at how it

Representing a cutting-edge study of the junction between theoretical anthropology,

On the Mediterranean island of Cyprus, rural villages, traditional artefacts, even

In 1979 Dubrovnik was declared a UNESCO World Heritage site, which had consequences for

During the nineteenth century, a change developed in the way architectural objects from

Seit Verabschiedung der Welterbekonvention 1972 erfreuen sich Schutz und Nutzung des

Petra, Jordan became a UNESCO World Heritage site in 1985, and the semi-nomadic Bedouin

This book provides a detailed and carefully researched catalogue of over 140 manuscripts

Twenty-first-century views of historical violence have been immeasurably influenced by

Heritage is all around us, not just in monuments and museums, but in places that matter,

As an historical account of the exchange of “duplicate specimens” between anthropologists

Since the 1960s, nations across the “developed world” have been profoundly shaped by

By exploring the processes of collecting, which challenge the bounds of normally

Critical Heritage Studies is a new and fast-growing interdisciplinary field of study

This is a vital new work; the first to take the University of Manchester’s Museum as its

Going beyond strictly legal and property-oriented aspects of the restitution debate,

This beautifully illustrated book explains how water influences our culture; the many

Mit Beiträgen von Francesco Bandarin, Minja Yang und Mechthild

The Museum of Mankind was an innovative and popular showcase for minority cultures from

In the late nineteenth century, tens of thousands of porters carried ivory every year

Looking at the crossroads between heritage and religion through the case study of

When questions of belonging enter the forefront of political debates, so too does