Around the world, struggles about the right to determine the uses of ancient sites, museum objects, historic structures, and traditional cultures are being fought out. This innovative and wide-ranging collection of essays describes various means of preserving, protecting and presenting vital cultural resources within the context of economic development, competing claims of "ownership" of particular cultural resources, modern uses of structures and space, and other aspects of late twentieth-century life.
Author(s): Alf Hatton, Francis P. MacManamon
Series: One World Archaeology
Edition: 1
Publisher: Routledge
Year: 1999
Language: English
Pages: 359
Book Cover......Page 1
Title......Page 4
Contents......Page 5
List of figures......Page 8
List of tables......Page 10
List of contributors......Page 11
Preface......Page 14
Introduction: considering cultural resource management in modern society......Page 18
The future of Cameroon's past......Page 37
Third World development and the threat to resource conservation: the case of Africa......Page 48
The protection of archaeological resources in the United States: reconciling preservation with contemporary society......Page 57
Conflict between preservation and development in Japan: the challenges for rescue archaeologists......Page 72
Archaeological heritage management in Northern Ireland: challenges and solutions......Page 83
Now we know: the role of research in archaeological conservation practices in England......Page 93
Protection of the environment and the role of archaeology......Page 110
The World Heritage Convention in the Third World......Page 116
Heritage management in Rhode Island: working with diverse partners and audiences......Page 124
Heritage management by American Indian tribes in the Southwestern United States......Page 137
The Arkansas Archeological Survey: a statewide cooperative programme to preserve the past......Page 159
Articulation between archaeological practice and local politics in northwest Argentina......Page 177
Lebanon's archaeological heritage on trial in Beirut: what future for Beirut's past?......Page 185
Regional aspects of state policy relating to the protection of the cultural heritage and natural environment in the Russian Federation......Page 205
Documentation at Vijayanagara: an experiment in surface archaeology......Page 217
Following fashion: the ethics of archaeological conservation......Page 230
Bringing archaeology to the public: programmes in the Southwestern United States......Page 248
Reducing the illegal trafficking in antiquities......Page 264
America's archaeological heritage: protection through education......Page 293
Public interpretation, education and outreach: the growing predominance in American archaeology......Page 305
The crisis of representation in archaeological museums......Page 317
Museums and the promotion of environmental understanding and heritage conservation......Page 327
Teaching archaeology at the Museum San Miguel de Azapa in northernmost Chile......Page 336
Index......Page 342
