Heritage Management & Conservation

This book examines the relationship between two divergent fields – corporate activity and heritage conservation – linking the financing of conservation and its benefits with the corporate social responsibility (CSR) goals of the private sector. Through discussion of physical conservation, benefits t..

This book describes how the tenets of popular religion affect building and renovation practices and describes how modernist attempts to suppress popular religion in Asia in the early and mid-twentieth century impact religious heritage. Author Denis Byrne argues that the campaign by archaeologists an..

Suzanne Keene's pioneering book shows how museums and other cultural organizations fit into the new world of information and electronic communications and, most importantly, how they can take advantage of what it has to offer. By using new technology museums can build knowledge bases around informat..

Suzanne Keene's pioneering book shows how museums and other cultural organizations fit into the new world of information and electronic communications and, most importantly, how they can take advantage of what it has to offer. By using new technology museums can build knowledge bases around informat..

Clearly laid out and fully illustrated, this comprehensive introductory-level book on the subject is perfect as a practical reference book for professional and students, and an introduction for those training as archaeological conservators...

Clearly laid out and fully illustrated, this comprehensive introductory-level book on the subject is perfect as a practical reference book for professional and students, and an introduction for those training as archaeological conservators...

_x005F_x000D_ Emotion, Affective Practices and the Past in the Present explores the ways emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engagements with the past, particularly in contexts such as heritage sites, museums, commemorations, political rhetoric and ideology, debates over issues of social m..

_x005F_x000D_ Emotion, Affective Practices and the Past in the Present explores the ways emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engagements with the past, particularly in contexts such as heritage sites, museums, commemorations, political rhetoric and ideology, debates over issues of social m..

The political past haunts Ethiopia while it is facing the future with optimism and hope. The contributors in this edition examine historical and contemporaneous issues with different lenses, highlighting the multiplicity and complexity of the contradictions that define traditional and modern Ethiopi..

During the past decade a number of individual museums have found imaginative ways of using their collections and of making them accessible. However, museum collections as a whole are enormous in size and quantity and the question of how can they can be put to best use is ever present. When conventio..

Gender and Heritage brings together a group of international scholars to examine the performance, place and politics of gender within heritage. It provides a range of innovative approaches to using gender as a mode of enquiry...

Gender and Heritage brings together a group of international scholars to examine the performance, place and politics of gender within heritage. It provides a range of innovative approaches to using gender as a mode of enquiry...