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Cultural heritage

About: Cultural heritage is a research topic. Over the lifetime, 28201 publications have been published within this topic receiving 273875 citations. The topic is also known as: cultural assets & cultural goods.


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03 Dec 2008
TL;DR: The 2003 volume Rethinking heritage, edited by Robert Shaman Peckham as discussed by the authors, assembles contributions from geography, history and art history, landscape planning and philology, and concludes that heritage concerns everyone from the tourism expert to the philosopher of late modernity.
Abstract: In the 1990s, a critical cultural historian could exclaim, with considerable frustration, ‘Suddenly, cultural heritage is everywhere’ (Lowenthal 1996: ix). Since then, scholarship on heritage practices has enjoyed a boom of its own. It is as difficult to categorise the scholarship about it as to comprehend the phenomenon: constitution, use, evaluation, and critique of cultural heritage intertwine in scholarly discourse as much as they do in heritage itself. Thus the 2003 volume Rethinking Heritage, edited by Robert Shaman Peckham, assembles contributions from geography, history and art history, landscape planning and philology. This hybrid composition signals that heritage concerns everyone, from the tourism expert to the philosopher of late modernity. Each grouping of practitioners and experts harbours its own conception of heritage; their expectations seldom harmonise with one another. In his introduction, Peckham tries to simplify the range of meanings as follows:For most people today ‘heritage’ carries two related sets of meanings. On the one hand, it is associated with tourism and with sites of historical interest that have been preserved for the nation. Heritage designates those institutions involved in the celebration, management and maintenance of material objects, landscapes, monuments and buildings that reflect the nation’s past. On the other hand, it is used to describe a set of shared values and collective memories; it betokens inherited customs and a sense of accumulated communal experiences that are construed as a ‘birthright’ and are expressed in distinct languages and through other cultural performances.

98 citations

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TL;DR: This review intends to show through the applications found in the literature how valuable is the contribution of LA-ICP-MS in the investigation of ancient materials such as obsidian, glass, pottery, human remains, written heritage, metal objects and miscellaneous stone materials.

98 citations

Book
19 Apr 2010
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a marketing strategy framework grounded in sustainable principles that can be used to sustain and preserve the authenticity of cultural heritage for future generations, whilst appealing to the suppliers, the regulators, and the consumers.
Abstract: Cultural attractions play an important role in tourism at all levels, and attract huge numbers of tourists interested in heritage and the arts. Cultural Heritage Tourism has positive economic and social impacts but can also have negative impacts on communities and regions. This book draws together and links ideas of tourism from sustainable marketing perspectives and embeds it within a heritage management setting. Through a discussion and analysis of existing literature and practices this book aims to propose a marketing strategy framework grounded in sustainable principles that can be used to sustain and preserve the authenticity of cultural heritage for future generations, whilst appealing to the suppliers, the regulators, and the consumers. The book first explains the dynamics of cultural heritage with its authenticity underpinnings, marketing, and tourism, and proposes a strategic praxis drawn from core sustainable principles. This is followed by a pragmatic examination of the proposed framework from the shaper’s (provider’s) perspective. The material presented in this book is not merely an agglomeration of documented secondary research, but the theoretical concepts are grounded in empirical research and interactive discussions with students and the travel and tourism industry. A variety of heritage institutions across the globe are used as starting points to test the applicability of the proposed paradigm: these include museums, historic house museums, heritage hotels/resorts, festivals, and heritage merchandize. This is a timely offering to a growing and vibrant area of research; what is most pertinent is that it is a thorough and fresh take on the topic with primary research included. It will find a place in student materials for a variety of courses and it should be read by practicing academics and researchers.

98 citations

01 Jan 2007
TL;DR: An overview of research activities within the pan-European network COST Action G8 is given in this paper, which aims at achieving a better preservation and conservation of our cultural heritage by increasing the knowledge in art and archaeological objects through chemical and physical analyses.
Abstract: This paper gives an overview of research activities within the pan-European network COST Action G8. COST is an EU initiative that allows the coordination of nationally funded research at a pan-European level and its activities are based on so-called actions which are networks on a specific topic covering basic and pre-competitive research. Action G8 is one of these networks and has 24 member countries. Its first goal aims at achieving a better preservation and conservation of our cultural heritage by increasing the knowledge in art and archaeological objects through chemical and physical analyses. Furthermore Action G8 aims at creating a Europe-wide environment, in which people directly concerned with the maintenance of our cultural heritage (i.e. art historians, archaeologists, conservators and curators) and analytical scientists (i.e. physicists, chemists, material scientists, geologists, etc.) can exchange knowledge. The multidisciplinary community of action is essential as in the current economic climate it is extremely difficult for museums to develop new analytical methods or techniques. The need for collaboration with experts in state-of-the art analytical instrumentation is therefore very high and can tap-in to sources of knowledge and sophistication of equipment, which would otherwise be impossible in the small conservation and science groups in museums.

98 citations

Book
28 Jul 2013
TL;DR: The World Heritage Convention Process for identifying World Heritage Sites Populating the World Heritage List: 1978-2000 Conserving World Heritage Site The players Assessment of the world heritage system: 1972-2000 Appendix Bibliography Index as mentioned in this paper.
Abstract: Contents: Foreword Creation of the World Heritage Convention Process for identifying World Heritage Sites Populating the World Heritage List: 1978-2000 Conserving World Heritage Sites The players Assessment of the World Heritage system: 1972-2000 Appendix Bibliography Index.

97 citations


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Performance
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No. of papers in the topic in previous years
YearPapers
20244
20232,033
20224,256
20211,681
20202,042
20192,082