Book chapter
Engaging “the Public” in Heritage: Which Public and Whose Heritage
Relevance and Application of Heritage in Contemporary Society, pp.96-104
Routledge, 1
2018
Handle:
https://hdl.handle.net/2376/112087
Abstract
In this chapter, the author argues that the relevance of the past in the present is context specific. The broader impacts of heritage work require a comprehensive analysis of why the past matters to particular groups and individuals and who has power in the present to make decisions about what gets 'saved', commemorated, erased, or forgotten. The term 'public' is often used by those in the authorized heritage discourse (AHD) to make a distinction between those who generate and preserve knowledge about the past, and those who consume that knowledge. Heritage professionals are but one group of stakeholders. If heritage is not about what happened in the past, but what people in contemporary society do with the remains and narratives of the past, then archaeologists and historians should be seen as the subjects of heritage studies just as much as indigenous peoples or other descendant groups.
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- Title
- Engaging “the Public” in Heritage: Which Public and Whose Heritage
- Creators
- Elizabeth Chilton (Author) - Washington State University, Office of the Provost
- Publication Details
- Relevance and Application of Heritage in Contemporary Society, pp.96-104
- Academic Unit
- Anthropology, Department of
- Publisher
- Routledge
- Edition
- 1
- Identifiers
- 99900586061801842
- Language
- English
- Resource Type
- Book chapter