Showing papers on "Cultural heritage published in 1995"

Dissonant Heritage: The Management of the Past as a Resource in Conflict

Abstract: From History to Heritage Dissonant Heritage Dissonance and the Uses of Heritage Dissonant Heritage and Human Diversity The Heritage of Atrocity Central Europe: Managing Heritage in the Maelstrom Canada: Management of Dissonance in a New World Southern Africa: Dissonant Heritage as the Black Man's Burden Dissonance and its Management: Conclusions and Prognosis.

Looking After Heritage Places: The Basics of Heritage Planning for Managers, Landowners and Administrators

Abstract: 'Most people want to know about their past, and to see and hear about the evidence of it. They want to learn about past history, and some places are particularly suited to achieving this. Conservation of such places is important to national or local self-identity.' Looking After Heritage Places is a comprehensive reference and sourcebook for anyone managing a heritage place-an Aboriginal site, historic building or any other place of cultural importance to the community. The authors provide a step-by-step guide to: * identifying a heritage place * assessing and documenting the site * implementing conservation practices * visitor management * international and Australian legislation. Looking After Heritage Places offers a wealth of information on preserving and conserving heritage places for administrators, owners, caretakers, volunteers, students and professionals. Pearson and Sullivan survey key issues currently being debated in the field and in the wider community and discuss their implications for heritage management.

International tourism : identity and change

Abstract: Introduction - Marie-Francoise Lanfant International Tourism, Internationalization and the Challenge to Identity - Marie-Francoise Lanfant Cultural Heritage and Tourist Capital - Michel Picard Cultural Tourism in Bali Textiles, Memory and the Souvenir Industry in the Andes - Anath Ariel de Vidas Frontier Minorities, Tourism and the State in Indian Himalaya and Northern Thailand - Jean Michaud International Tourism and the Appropriation of History in the Balkans - John B Allcock Industrial Heritage in the Tourism Process in France - Claude-Marie Bazin Tourism and Tradition - Wendy Williams and Elly Maria Papamichael Local Control versus Outside Interests in Greece The Jewish Pilgrim and the Purchase of a Souvenir in Israel - Shelley Shenhav-Keller International Tourism and Utopia - Danielle Rozenberg The Balearic Islands Life as a Tourist Object in Australia - Meaghan Morris Sex Tourism and Traditional Australian Male Identity - Suzy Kruhse-MountBurton The Anthropologist as Tourist - Malcolm Crick An Identity in Question The Ethnographer/Tourist in Indonesia - Edward M Bruner

The Financial Value Of Cultural, Heritage And Scientific Collections: An Accounting Fiction

Abstract: That museum and like collections have cultural, heritage, scientific and educational values is widely appreciated. However, accounting standard setters in Australia and New Zealand have recently advocated that public arts institutions bring their collections to account as assets for financial reporting purposes. There are no similar requirements in the US, European Union (including the UK) and Canada; nor has the International Accounting Standards Board made such a recommendation. From surveys of current accounting practices, it is apparent that, by and large, arts institutions in the English-speaking world do not report their collections for financial reporting purposes. This paper demonstrates that it is not technically proper to recognise cultural, heritage and scientific collections as assets for financial reporting purposes.

Visitors' use of interpretive media at heritage sites.

Abstract: Although heritage interpretation is a central component of the modern heritage industry there has been relatively little concern with how visitors to heritage sites make use of interpretive media. This paper reports a study of visitors' use of three interpretive media — exhibitions, outdoor panels, and stereo-audio tours — commonly employed at one type of heritage site, namely ancient monuments. Interpretation is an important component of the visit for many people, although visitors differ in the interest and attention they display to the interpretive media. This is greatest for audio media and less for visual media. This was attributed both to qualities of the interpretive media themselves (e.g. subject matter, readability), and also to characteristics of visitors, particularly their motive for visiting. This supports the notion that the ‘effectiveness’ of interpretation is the result of an interaction between visitor and interpretive medium, rather than depending solely on the interpretive medium.

The rise of cultural landscapes

Abstract: The new interest in cultural landscapes is forcing a reappraisal of concepts of countryside heritage. First the traditional split between cultural and natural values is challenged. Second, modern landscape studies emphasise the subjectivity of landscape assessment, and this is subverting the former tendency to aspire to objectivity in evaluation. The acceptance of ‘associative’ value in landscape is an indicator of this. Modern landscape studies also emphasise the interrelationships between processes and aspects of value, and this is encouraging specialists to communicate across disciplinary frontiers. The desire by ecologists in the mid‐1980s to have cultural landscapes inscribed on the World Heritage list caused a re‐assessment of the World Heritage Criteria, and an initiative by ICOMOS brought this process to a conclusion in 1992. However the reappraisal of concepts of countryside value imply that there are many other philosophical and practical matters still to be resolved.

Planning for our cultural heritage

Abstract: Part A Cultural heritage - evaluation and planning: urban conservation and planning, H. Coccossis and P. Nijkamp quantity and quality - evaluation indicators for our cultural-architectural heritage, P. Nijkamp community impact analysis for the cultural built heritage, N. Lichfield conservation, planning and political ideology - the British case, A. Thornley policy analysis for sustainable development - an operational approach to natural park management, G. Munda and P. Nijkamp the role of discount for projects to conserve our cultural heritage, T. van der Burg. Part B Cultural heritage planning - case studies: tourism and the conservation of heritage - the medieval town of Rhodes, H. Coccossis and A. Mexa scenarios for sustainable cultural heritage planning - a case study of Olympia, P. Nijkamp and K. Bithas sustainable conservation of the "Castello di Maratea", L.Fusco Girard and G. Giordano evaluating historical buildings and gardens, L. Albers heritage conservation economics - a case study from Italy, D.E. Massimo tourism and cities of art - Venice, J. Borg and P. Costa. Part C Epilogue: the postmodern past, M.J. Thomas.

Pilgrimage tourism and english cathedrals: The role of religion in travel

Abstract: Visiting cathedrals is one form of cultural tourism. The motivations of these visits are of worldly nature. Cultural heritage and architecture are the main points of attraction. However, on the spot visitors are usually touched by religious feelings.

Cultural landscapes as World Heritage

Abstract: (1995). Cultural landscapes as World Heritage. Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites: Vol. 1, No. 1, pp. 63-68.

The Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage:An Emerging Objective of the Contemporary Law of the Sea

Abstract: Foreword. Abbreviations. Introduction. Part One. 1. The notion of the underwater cultural heritage. 2. Underwater archaeology. 3. International and regional instruments protecting the cultural heritage. Part Two.Introduction: The law of the sea. 4. Marine spaces under the sovereignty of the coastal state. 5. The contiguous zone. 6. The high seas. 7. The continental shelf and the exclusive economic zone. 8. The international deep seabed. 9. Conclusion. Part Three. 10. Future developments. Bibliography. Annex: The ILA Draft Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. Table of cases. Table of treaties. Table of national legislation. Index.

Manual of Heritage Management

Abstract: Vision, strategy and corporate planning conserving the natural and man-made heritage funding and operations management interpretation and presentation marketing.

Planning and the Heritage: Policy and procedures

Abstract: Why conserve? the legislative and procedural framework the rise of the heritage the anti-modernist reaction conservation in action the main players listed buildings conservation areas ancient monuments keeping old buildings up the heritage tomorrow.

Cultural heritage in Iran : policies for an Islamic country

Abstract: Compiling a more precise body of knowledge concerning the present situation of cultural affairs in Iran and attempting to search for more appropriate policies for its future application are the goals pursued in this research. The research is carried out in two principal domains: the status of cultural heritage in Islam and the development of cultural heritage in Iran. Firstly, a framework for evaluating the importance and the role of cultural heritage and its relevant activities in the outlook prevailing in Iran is presented; secondly, the thesis tries to make the reader aware of the long history that formed the present conception of cultural heritage in Iran. In Part I, first the various reasons for paying attention to the past and its relics are reviewed as expressed by Muslim and non-Muslim thinkers. Then, referring to Quranic verses, we study the views of the most important reference of Muslims on cultural heritage. Further, from an Islamic point of view an examination of the definition of cultural heritage is attempted, including a discussion of values and their priorities. Finally, relying on particular precepts of Islamic Laws and in view of methods which existed in Islamic countries, propositions likely to increase the popularity of such activities as the identification, preservation, conservation and presentation of historic relics are presented. Thus, efforts are made to provide, as far as possible, a theoretical framework upon which greater coordination may be achieved between future cultural heritage policies and the value system of Iranian society. Reviewing the historic events of three periods: Qajär rule; Pahlavi rule; and the years following the Islamic Revolution, Part II examines the effects of socio-political developments on the formation of the people's attitude toward cultural heritage. After a brief reference to the long legacy of paying attention to relics and traditional methods of conservation until Qajar times, the effects of the involvement and the activities of Europeans in Iran during the Qäjar period and the changes which consequently occurred in all related matters are examined. Further, the Irano-French agreement of 1900 concerning excavations in Iran is analyzed, as a document which well expresses the situation of cultural heritage in that period. The outlook on historic relics, the laws concerning exploitation methods, the administrative structure, etc. under Pahlavi I and II, which took shape directly as a result of the influence of political and cultural developments at that time, are next studied in this Part. Finally, describing the status of cultural heritage under the Islamic Revolution and reviewing the events that led to the establishment of the Iranian Cultural Heritage Organization, the thesis informs the reader of the latest situation in this sector. A summary of the research, which includes main principles deduced by studying the Islamic perspective concerning historic relics (ideal situation), combined with principal lessons we have learned from studying the development of cultural heritage in Iran (present situation), shall help us offer propositions for future policies (transition from the present situation to the ideal situation).