Heritage and its missions : contested meanings and constructive appropriations /
"While many studies try to understand just what heritage is about and provide arguments for its promotion and protection, others have adopted a critical stance for examining its entanglement with politics, identity and knowledge. As a result, the focus on empirical, technical and legal concerns...
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| Format: | Book |
| Language: | English |
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New York :
Fordham University Press,
2025.
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| Edition: | First edition. |
| Series: | Catholic practice in the Americas.
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| Summary: | "While many studies try to understand just what heritage is about and provide arguments for its promotion and protection, others have adopted a critical stance for examining its entanglement with politics, identity and knowledge. As a result, the focus on empirical, technical and legal concerns has shifted to issues of narratives, publics and even performances. Interdisciplinary in scope and classed under the name "critical heritage studies", these investigations make extensive use of ethnographic perspectives to examine heritage not as a collection of inert things (or intangibles, to use more recent parlance) upon which a general historical interest is centered, but as a series of active meanings that have consequences in the social, political, and economic arenas. Such critical, relational approaches are beginning to have a bearing in studies of the heritage meanings accorded to the standing remains and the legacy of the pre-Republican Catholic missions in the old Spanish realm in the Americas, most notably in California, the Sonoran Desert (southwestern United States and northern Mexico), and the Southern Cone. Yet no book had been devoted to engaging those meanings in comparative terms, exploring issues that are important for a number of actors/collectives, not just those related to the States and the disciplines. This book brings together researchers from several countries interested in the missions as heritage"-- |
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| Physical Description: | viii, 243 pages : illustrations, maps ; 24 cm. |
| Bibliography: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
| ISBN: | 9781531509323 1531509320 9781531509330 1531509339 |