Enhanced descriptions from Syndetics:

This resource is a much-needed support to the few textbooks in the field and offers an excellent introduction and overview to the established principles and new thinking in cultural heritage management .

Leading experts in the field from Europe, North America and Australia, bring together recent and innovative works in the field. With geographically and thematically diverse case studies, they examine the theoretical framework for heritage resource management.

Setting significant new thinking within the framework of more established views and ideas on heritage management, this reader re-publishes texts of the past decade with an overview of earlier literature and essays that fill the gaps in between, providing students of all stages with a clear picture of new and older literature.

A helpful introduction sets out key issues and debates, and individual chapter introductions and reading lists give a background collection of key works that offer ideas for the development of thought and study.

With good coverage of major issues and solutions in Britain, the USA and Australia, The Heritage Reader will appeal to students internationally across the English-speaking world, and will stand proud as a key guide to the study and practice of this major archaeological sector.

Table of contents provided by Syndetics

• List of figures (p. ix)
• List of tables (p. x)
• Acknowledgements (p. xi)
• Introduction: Heritage, Memory and Modernity (p. 1)
• Section 1 The Cultural Heritage: Concepts, Values and Principles (p. 13)
• 1 Heritage Management, Theory and Practice (p. 15)
• 2 Heritage: From Patrimony to Pastiche (p. 31)
• 3 Cultural Heritage Management in the United States: Past, Present, and Future (p. 42)
• 4 Towards a Theoretical Framework for Archaeological Heritage Management (p. 62)
• 5 Excavation as Theatre (p. 75)
• 6 Only Connect-Sustainable Development and Cultural Heritage (p. 82)
• 7 Assessing Values in Conservation Planning: Methodological issues and choices (p. 99)
• 8 Is the Past a Non-renewable Resource? (p. 125)
• 9 Sites of Memory and Sites of Discord: Historic monuments as a medium for discussing conflict in Europe (p. 134)
• 10 Archaeology and Authority in the Twenty-first Century (p. 139)
• 11 Heritage as Social Action (p. 149)
• Section 2 Whose Heritage? Local and Global Perspectives (p. 175)
• 12 The Politics of the Past: Conflict in the use of heritage in the modern world (p. 177)
• 13 Professional Attitudes to Indigenous Interests in the Native Title Era: Settler societies compared (p. 191)
• 14 The Globalization of Archaeology and Heritage: A discussion with Arjun Appadurai (p. 209)
• 15 Whose Heritage? Un-settling 'The Heritage', re-imagining the post-nation (p. 219)
• 16 Western Hegemony in Archaeological Heritage Management (p. 229)
• 17 Whose Heritage to Conserve?: Cross-cultural reflections on political dominance and urban heritage conservation (p. 235)
• 18 'Time Out of Mind' - 'Mind Out of Time': Custom versus tradition in environmental heritage research and interpretation (p. 245)
• 19 Conflict in the Archaeology of Living Traditions (p. 256)
• 20 Politics (p. 274)
• Section 3 Methods and Approaches to Cultural Heritage Management (p. 295)
• 21 New Heritage, an Introductory Essay-People, Landscape and Change (p. 297)
• 22 Sustaining the Historic Environment: New perspectives on the future (p. 313)
• 23 The Conservation Plan (p. 322)
• 24 Commemorative Integrity and Cultural Landscapes: Two national historic sites in British Columbia (p. 331)
• 25 Explaining LARA: The Lincoln Archaeological Research Assessment in its policy context (p. 340)
• 26 Assessing Public Perception of Landscape: The LANDMAP experience (p. 346)
• 27 Cultural Heritage and Resources (p. 363)
• 28 Cultural Connections to the Land: A Canadian example (p. 373)
• 29 'An Emu in the Hole': Exploring the link between biodiversity and Aboriginal cultural heritage in New South Wales, Australia (p. 382)
• 30 Social Sustainability: People, history, and values (p. 392)
• 31 The European Landscape Convention: An extract (p. 405)
• 32 'The Long Chain': Archaeology, historical landscape characterization and time depth in the landscape (p. 408)
• Section 4 Interpretation and Communication (p. 425)
• 33 Presenting Archaeology to the Public, Then and Now: An introduction (p. 427)
• 34 Archaeological Messages and Messengers (p. 457)
• 35 "Leveling the Playing Field" in the Contested Territory of the South African Past: A "public" versus a "people's" form of historical archaeology outreach (p. 482)
• 36 Heritage that Hurts: Interpretation in a postmodern world (p. 502)
• 37 Archaeologies that Hurt; Descendents that Matter: A pragmatic approach to collaboration in the public interpretation of African-American heritage (p. 514)
• 38 Stonehenge-A Final Solution? (p. 524)
• 39 More Than Just "Telling the Story": Interpretive narrative archaeology (p. 536)
• 40 The Archaeologist as Playwright (p. 545)
• Afterword (p. 557)
• 41 Change and Creation: Historic landscape character 1950-2000 (p. 559)
• Index (p. 567)

Reviews provided by Syndetics

CHOICE Review

Heritage is very much in the news these days, and also in the marketplace, corridors of power, and academy. This is brought to the fore in these two collections. The Heritage Reader addresses established principles, new thinking, and theoretical frameworks for cultural heritage resource management by presenting a discursive consideration of past ideas, literature overviews, and new perspectives. In a similar vein, The Ashgate Research Companion offers a comprehensive, authoritative review of current research addressing the role of heritage in identity formation. The Heritage Reader opens with a powerful theoretical analysis that locates cultural heritage management in its historical trajectory and social and cultural contexts in the 21st century: diasporic and transnational communities, mass mobility, and cybercohesion. To this end, the discussion opens with the shifting concepts of the memory, materiality, and authenticity of heritage that are often politically charged in their "taphonomic" approach to heritage conservation. The volume closes with a discussion of the performative and transformative power of heritage practice in the contemporary world. While addressing several themes of the Reader, The Ashgate Research Companion is more focused on the "slippery," ambiguous," and "dynamically important" concepts of heritage and identity. Taking a constructivist perspective, heritage is viewed as having been produced by a selective engagement with artifacts, landscapes, and intangible culture for cultural, political, and economic reasons in the present. A key theme of the Companion is to transcend nationalism by embracing global networks, challenge the "fetishizing" of place-bounded landscapes, memories, and identities, and recognize the power of hybridity, transnational identities, and "inbetweenness." The authors of the Companion come to a conclusion that stands for the Reader as well: "in an increasingly interconnected and plural world, senses of national belonging and other scales of rootedness, grounded in heritage remain potent sources of pluralization, diversity and hybridity, but also of dissonance, conflict and overt violence." Both studies are appropriately illustrated, referenced, and indexed. Summing Up: Recommended. Most levels/libraries. B. Osborne Queen's University at Kingston

Author notes provided by Syndetics

Graham Fairclough is currently Head of the Characterisation Team at English Heritage.

Rodney Harrison is a lecturer in heritage studies at The Open University and an adjunct research fellow at the Centre for Cross-Cultural Research at the Australian National University.

John H Jameson Jnr. is a senior archaeologist and Archaeology Education and Interpretation Program Manager with the U.S. National Park Service's Southeast Archaeological Center in Tallahassee, Florida.

John Schofield works for English Heritage in the Characterisation Team and is also Head of Military Programmes