Are you interested in exploring questions related to how and why people interpret and remember the past? Take a look at our books in cultural heritage studies, beginning with our suggested reading list of recent titles below. To view more books, click here.
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Negotiating Heritage through Education and Archaeology: Colonialism, National Identity, and resistance in Belize
Alicia Ebbitt McGill
Through an innovative approach that combines years of ethnographic research with British imperial archival sources, this book reveals how cultural heritage has been negotiated by colonial, independent state, and community actors in Belize from the late nineteenth century to the present. Alicia McGill explores the heritage of two African-descendant Kriol communities as seen in the contexts of archaeology and formal education.
Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage: Three Case Studies in the Americas
Jessica Joyce Christie
Focusing on three communities in North, Central, and South America, Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage layers archaeological research with local knowledge in its interpretations of these cultural landscapes. Using the perspective of Earth Politics, Christie demonstrates a way of reconciling the tension between Western scientific approaches to history and the more intangible heritage derived from Indigenous oral narratives and social memories.
Heritage and the Existential Need for History
Maud Webster
In a sweeping survey of archaeological sites dating from a span of thousands of years and located across continents, this book asks fundamental questions about the place of cultural heritage in Western society. What is history? Why do we write about the events of yesterday and set up memorials for them? Why do we visit places where momentous things have happened?
Baseball and Cultural Heritage
Gregory Ramshaw and Sean Gammon
Baseball’s past has been lauded, romanticized, and idealized, and much has been written about both the sport and its history. This is the first volume to explore the understudied side of baseball—how its heritage is understood, interpreted, commodified, and performed for various purposes today.
Memory and Power at L’Hermitage Plantation: Heritage of a Nervous Landscape
Megan M. Bailey
In this book, Megan Bailey uses archaeological data and historical records to document the treatment of enslaved people at L’Hermitage Plantation in Maryland from 1794 to 1827. Bailey uses the concept of the “nervous landscape”—a space where power is not absolute and where resistance is possible—to show how the Vincendière family’s fear of losing control of their workforce drove their brutality.
Citizen Science in Maritime Archaeology: The Power of Public Engagement
Della A. Scott-Ireton, Jennifer E. Jones, and Jason T. Raupp
This volume is the first to address the ways maritime archaeologists have engaged citizen scientists, presenting examples of projects and organizations that have involved volunteers in the important work of gathering and processing data. With a special focus on program development and sustainability, these practical case studies provide reference points for archaeologists looking to design their own citizen science projects.
Heritage and Democracy: Crisis, Critique, and Collaboration
Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Jon D. Daehnke
Cultural heritage is a powerful tool in society, capable of producing both social harms as well as social goods and benefits, which can be distributed unevenly via political channels. Reaching across disciplines and national boundaries, this volume examines cultural heritage work within the context of both democratic institutions and democratic practices, including participatory, deliberative, and direct democratic practices. Case studies highlight how democratic politics and cultural heritage shape, impact, and depend upon one another.
Conflict Archaeology, Historical Memory, and the Experience of War: Beyond the Battle Field
Mark Axel Tveskov and Ashley Ann Bissonnette
This volume presents approaches to the archaeology of war that move beyond the forensic analysis of battlefields, fortifications, and other sites of conflict to consider the historical memory, commemoration, and social experience of war. Leading scholars offer critical insights that challenge the dominant narratives about landscapes of war from throughout the history of North American settler colonialism.
The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo: A Black Community in New Jersey
Christopher P. Barton
The Archaeology of Race and Class at Timbuctoo is the first book to examine the historic Black community of Timbuctoo, New Jersey, which was founded in 1826 by formerly enslaved migrants from Maryland and served as a stop on the Underground Railroad. In collaboration with descendants and community members, Christopher Barton explores the intersectionality of life at Timbuctoo and the ways Black residents resisted the marginalizing structures of race and class.
Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice: Presentation, Teaching, and Engagement
Ethan Watrall and Lynne Goldstein
The two volumes of Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice bring together archaeologists and heritage professionals from private, public, and academic sectors to discuss practical applications of digital and computational approaches to the field. Contributors thoughtfully explore the diverse and exciting ways in which digital methods are being deployed in archaeological interpretation and analysis, museum collections and archives, and community engagement, as well as the unique challenges that these approaches bring.
Digital Heritage and Archaeology in Practice: Data, Ethics, and Professionalism
Ethan Watrall and Lynne Goldstein
Exploring practical applications of digital and computational approaches to heritage studies and archaeology, this volume discusses methods for preparing and analyzing archaeological data, case studies that focus on data structuring, and topics related to ethics and professionalism in the field.
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