Contested cultural heritage : religion, nationalism, erasure, and exclusion in a global world / Helaine Silverman, editor.

Other author Silverman, Helaine.
Format Book
Publication InfoNew York ; London : Springer, ©2011.
Descriptionix, 286 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm
Subjects

Portion of title Religion, nationalism, erasure, and exclusion in a global world
Contents Contested cultural heritage : a selective historiography / Helaine Silverman -- The stratigraphy of forgetting : the Great Mosque of Cordoba and its contested legacy / D. Fairchild Ruggles -- Aestheticized geographies of conflict : the politicization of culture and the culture of politics in Belfast's mural tradition / Alexandra Hartnett -- Blood of our ancestors : cultural heritage management in the Balkans / Michael L. Galaty -- Re-imagining the national past : negotiating the roles of science, religion, and history in contemporary British ghost tourism / Michele M. Hanks -- Collecting and repatriating Egypt's past : toward a new nationalism / Salima Ikram -- National identity interrupted : the mutilation of the Parthenon Marbles and the Greek claim for repatriation / Vasiliki Kynourgiopoulou -- Syrian national museums : regional politics and the imagined community / Kari A. Zobler -- Contestation from the top : Fascism in the realm of culture and Italy's conception of the past / Alvaro Higueras -- Touring the slave route : inaccurate authenticities in Bénin, West Africa / Timothy R. Landry -- Carving the nation : Zimbabwean sculptors and the contested heritage of aesthetics / Lance L. Larkin -- Afterword : El Pilar and Maya cultural heritage : reflections of a cheerful pessimist / Anabel Ford.
Bibliography noteIncludes bibliographical references and index.
LCCN 2010938126
ISBN9781441973047 (acid-free paper)
ISBN1441973044 (acid-free paper)

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