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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher
Cambridge Univ Pr
Publication date
September 1, 1998
Pages
338
Binding
Paperback
Edition
Reprint
Book category
Adult Non-Fiction
ISBN-13
9780521635622
ISBN-10
0521635624
Dimensions
1 by 6.50 by 9 in.
Weight
1.20 lbs.
Published in
Great Britain
Original list price
$39.99
Other format details
university press
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On Being Maya and Getting By: Heritage Politics and Community Development in Yucatán (IMS Culture and Society) | How Societies Remember | The Past Is a Foreign Country - Revisited | The Past Is a Foreign Country | Uses of Heritage | Difficult Heritage | Community-Based Archaeology
Summaries and Reviews
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Amazon.com description: Product Description: Heritage, while it often constitutes and defines the most positive aspects of culture, is a malleable body of historical text subject to interpretation and easily twisted into myth. When it is appealed to on a national or ethnic level in reactions against racial, religious, or economic oppression, the result is often highly-charged political contention or conflict. The extraordinary theme of this unique book is how the rise of a manifold, crusade-like obsession with tradition and inheritance--both physical and cultural--can lead to either good or evil. In a balanced account of the pros and cons of the rhetoric and spoils of heritage--on the one hand cultural identity and unity, on the other, potential holy war--David Lowenthal discusses the myriad uses and abuses of historical appropriation and offers a rare and accessible account of a concept at once familiar and fraught with complexity. David Lowenthal is Emeritus Professor of Geography at University College London, and the author of the bestselling The Past is a Foreign Country (Cambridge, 1985)
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Paperback
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Reprint edition from Cambridge Univ Pr (September 1, 1998)
9780521635622 | details & prices | 338 pages | 6.50 × 9.00 × 1.00 in. | 1.20 lbs | List price $39.99
About: Heritage, while it often constitutes and defines the most positive aspects of culture, is a malleable body of historical text subject to interpretation and easily twisted into myth.
About: Heritage, while it often constitutes and defines the most positive aspects of culture, is a malleable body of historical text subject to interpretation and easily twisted into myth.
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