Mobilizing Heritage: Anthropological Practice and Transnational Prospects (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780813056647)

Mapping out emerging areas for global cultural heritage, this book provides an anthropological perspective on the growing field of heritage studies. Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels adopts a dual focus--looking back on the anthropological foundations for cultural heritage research while looking forward to areas of practice that reach beyond national borders: economic development, climate action, democratic practice, heritage rights, and global justice. Working around the traditional authority of the nation-state and intergovernmental treaty-based organizations such as UNESCO, these issues characterize heritage activity in transnational networks.

Lafrenz Samuels argues that transnational heritage involves an important shift from a paradigm of preservation to a paradigm of development. Responding to this expanding developmental sensibility, she positions cultural heritage as a persuasive tool for transformative action, capable of mobilizing and shaping social change. She shows how anthropological approaches help support the persuasive power of heritage in the transnational sphere.

A volume in the series Cultural Heritage Studies, edited by Paul A. Shackel

Author: Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels
ISBN-10: 0813056640
ISBN-13: 9780813056647
Publisher: University Press of Florida
Language: English
Published: 03/27/2018
Pages: 262
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.22lbs
Size: 9.00h x 6.00w x 0.75d

Review Citation(s):
Choice 10/01/2018