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Kinds of Heritage Terms modified by Heritage Selected AbstractsGENERATING THEORY, TOURISM, AND "WORLD HERITAGE" IN INDONESIA: ETHICAL QUANDARIES FOR ANTHROPOLOGISTS IN AN ERA OF TOURIST MANIADANNALS OF ANTHROPOLOGICAL PRACTICE, Issue 1 2005KATHLEEN M. ADAMS This article is broadly concerned with the unique ethical quandaries anthropologists face when conducting research in touristic milieus, as well as the ethical dilemmas that ensue once we have left the field and are engaged in constructing theoretically informed portraits of the communities we researched. Specifically, drawing on experiences in two contrasting Indonesian field settings (Tana Toraja and Alor), I explore the ways in which contemporary anthropological theories about culture, identity, and identity politics can collide with local perceptions and local tourism-generating aspirations, placing researchers in potentially problematic ethical terrain. [source] Tangible Heritage: Production of Astrolabes on a Laser EngraverCOMPUTER GRAPHICS FORUM, Issue 8 2008G. Zotti I.3.5 [Computer Graphics]: Computational geometry and object modelling , geometric algorithms, languages and systems; I.3.8 [Computer Graphics]: Applications Abstract The astrolabe, an analog computing device, used to be the iconic instrument of astronomers during the Middle Ages. It allowed a multitude of operations of practical astronomy which were otherwise cumbersome to perform in an epoch when mathematics had apparently almost been forgotten. Usually made from wood or sheet metal, a few hundred instruments, mostly from brass, survived until today and are valuable museum showpieces. This paper explains a procedural modelling approach for the construction of the classical kinds of astrolabes, which allows a wide variety of applications from plain explanatory illustrations to three-dimensional (3D) models, and even the production of working physical astrolabes usable for public or classroom demonstrations. [source] BioPrEP , a regional, process-based approach for assessment of land with high conservation value for Bush Heritage AustraliaECOLOGICAL MANAGEMENT & RESTORATION, Issue 1 2010Brendan Mackey Summary, A framework is presented for terrestrial conservation assessment that has been developed for Bush Heritage, an Australian non-profit organisation that manages land of outstanding conservation value through acquisition or working in partnership with other landowners. The framework is called Biodiversity Prediction using Ecological Processes and comprises seven conservation goals, with a set of candidate criteria and indicators for each goal. Particular emphasis is given to criteria that relate to habitat quality in addition to the more conventional focus on land quantity. The MCAS-S graphic user interface is used to help analyse the indicators and visualise the results in a transparent way that assists the decision-making process. The interface also allows indicators to be weighted differently, which among other things, allows analyses to reflect inter-regional differences in what represents high quality land. The framework was tested in a case study region (the Woodland region of south-eastern Australia), and the results reveal land that is potentially a priority for conservation investments. While the framework and case study results are indicative, and further analyses are required before they can be considered operational, the approach has potential application to other organisations in the private conservation sector. [source] The International Library of Essays in Tourism, Heritage and CultureGEOGRAPHICAL RESEARCH, Issue 3 2009Warwick Frost First page of article [source] Feature: UNESCO World Heritage and the Joggins cliffs of Nova ScotiaGEOLOGY TODAY, Issue 4 2004Howard J. Falcon-Lang UNESCO World Heritage status is the highest honour that may be bestowed on a palaeontological site. In addition to heightening conservation status, it confers international recognition of a locality's ,outstanding universal value' and often triggers the release of substantial regional development funds. Despite these incentives it is, perhaps, not surprising that only a handful of fossil sites have successfully navigated the World Heritage selection process. In this feature, we draw on our recent experience of developing a World Heritage bid for the Pennsylvanian ,Coal Age' locality of Joggins, Nova Scotia. As well as demonstrating the huge significance of Joggins, we hope that our findings will provide valuable guidelines for the assessment of World Heritage fossil sites in general. [source] Heritage, Identity and Belonging: African Caribbean Students and Art EducationINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ART & DESIGN EDUCATION, Issue 3 2006Paul Dash This article addresses the issue of Caribbean cultural under-representation in school art departments. It argues that diasporic subjects are not seen and their cultures not recognised precisely because their contributions to the way we live are indivisible from the mainstream. This in contradistinction to some groups whose cultures and heritages are relatively distinct and separate from Western mores. Our ways of understanding culture do not take this into account. Yet diasporic contributions to the way we live have buttressed Western lifestyles since the beginning of the slave trade. The article argues that this relationship, characterised by multiple entanglements, must be recognised if Caribbean cultural identities are to be seen and valued. In doing so it challenges the way we construct notions of cultural heritage and belonging, and promotes the adoption of more risk-taking pedagogies possibly based on contemporary practices. [source] US protection of underwater cultural heritage beyond the territorial sea: problems and prospectsINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF NAUTICAL ARCHAEOLOGY, Issue 1 2000Ricardo J. Elia Current US treatment of underwater cultural heritage beyond the territorial sea is analysed in light of Law of the Sea principles and the UNESCO Draft Convention on the Protection of the Underwater Cultural Heritage. [source] Heritage attractions and tourism development in Asia: a comparative study of Hong Kong and SingaporeINTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF TOURISM RESEARCH, Issue 5 2002Joan C. Henderson Abstract The paper compares the principal Asian city destinations of Hong Kong and Singapore with specific reference to heritage attractions and their contribution to tourism development, revealing contrasts and similarities that offer an insight into more general practices and processes. Authorities are actively pursuing tourism marketing and development initiatives incorporating the promotion of selected forms of heritage in order to stimulate visitor arrivals, but also employing heritage to define and articulate national and cultural identity. Heritage is thus shown to have a political and socio-cultural significance in addition to its economic value as a generator of revenue, foreign exchange and employment. These functions help to explain the higher priority allocated to it in strategic planning and its increasing use to attract visitors throughout much of Asia. Contexts may be very different, yet approaches correspond, as demonstrated by the circumstances of Hong Kong and Singapore. Copyright © 2002 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] "Upon Past Ebenezers We Built Our Jehovah-Jireh": The Vision of the Australian Aborigines' Mission and Its Heritage in the China Inland Mission1JOURNAL OF RELIGIOUS HISTORY, Issue 2 2007ALISON LONGWORTH In 1902, the New South Wales Aborigines' Mission found that financial constraints hindered them from achieving their vision and they adopted the faith mission principles of the China Inland Mission. A period of growth followed. By 1907, the name was changed to the Australian Aborigines' Mission. The article will investigate the vision of the mission from its foundation within the Christian Endeavour movement and its later heritage within the China Inland Mission. It will demonstrate that when it became a faith mission the defining principle was that of trusting God for physical needs. The article will establish that in the first half of the twentieth century the mission did not address the issue of the interface of gospel and culture. The process of conversion included western influence, but it has not erased cultural identity and the ministry of Indigenous converts is a witness to some fulfilment of the vision. [source] Our Proud Heritage in School HealthJOURNAL OF SCHOOL HEALTH, Issue 10 2002Robert J. McDermott No abstract is available for this article. [source] Chromatography in the Conservation of Cultural HeritageJOURNAL OF SEPARATION SCIENCE, JSS, Issue 3 2004Maria Perla Colombini [source] Heritage in Conflict and Consensus: towards an international agenda for the twenty-first centuryMUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 1-2 2010Elizabeth Chilton No abstract is available for this article. [source] Promoting Understanding of Shared Heritage (PUSH)MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 1-2 2010Elizabeth Ya'ari Shared heritage is at the root of consensus building within conflicting ideas and places. The project Promoting the Understanding of Shared Heritage (PUSH), supported by the European Union (EU) Partnership for Peace, has set in motion a process for harmonizing sites by a multidisciplinary team of Israeli, Jordanian and Palestinian academics and has developed narratives that can be appreciated by local and regional communities alike. [source] ICCROM's Contribution to the Ethics of HeritageMUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 3 2009Isabelle Vinson As UNESCO commemorates the founding of ICCROM, this article looks at the effects of conservation practices on building an international ethical framework for protecting the cultural heritage. Starting from the conditions in which ICCROM was created, it reviews the role of non-European countries in particular in creating the international programme for the conservation of heritage. It also emphasizes the importance for the future of an analysis that considers both normative and deontological instruments and practical ways of protecting heritage. [source] The Impact of Commercial Exploitation on the Preservation of Underwater Cultural HeritageMUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 4 2008Tatiana Villegas Zamora It is impossible to talk about underwater cultural heritage and not reflect upon the problem of the commercial exploitation of submerged archaeological sites. The romantic notion of the search for lost treasure embodied in books and popular movies such as the Indiana Jones series takes on a different aspect when we consider that treasure hunting has become one of the most dangerous and devastating threats to the preservation of underwater cultural heritage. Fishing communities, irresponsible sport divers collecting souvenirs or modern-day salvors often equipped with high technology are destroying this newly accessible and rich heritage. Their sole motivation is commercial profit without any concern for archaeological research, preservation of cultural and historical values or the potential for sustainable development involving cultural tourism for the benefit of coastal populations. This article will try to present an overview of the scope of site destruction by commercial exploitation, the loss of scientific information and the strategies used to convince governments and deceive public opinion. [source] Museums and the Protection of Cultural Intangible HeritageMUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 1-2 2008Pan Shouyong [source] Cultures, Conventions, and the Human Rights of Women: Examining the Convention for Safeguarding Intangible Cultural Heritage, and the Declaration on Cultural DiversityMUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 4 2007Valentine Moghadam [source] The Museum and the Intangible Cultural HeritageMUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 1-2 2004Kenji Yoshida [source] Heritage and Scientific Culture: the intangible in science museums in FranceMUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 1-2 2004Michel Van Praët [source] Individual or Collective Rights for Cultural Heritage in the Information Society?MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL, Issue 4 2002Lyndel Prott [source] Promouvoir la compréhension du patrimoine partagé (PUSH)MUSEUM INTERNATIONAL EDITION FRANCAISE, Issue 1-2 2010Elizabeth Ya'ari Résumé: Le Patrimoine partagé est à la base de l'établissement d'un consensus entre des idées et des lieux en conflit. Le Partenariat de l'Union éuropéenne pour la Paix a soutenu le projet Promoting the Understanding of Shared Heritage (Promouvoir la compréhension du patrimoine partagé, PUSH) : le projet avait pour objectif la mise en place d'un processus pour l'harmonisation des sites archéologique par une équipe pluridisciplinaire d'universitaire israéliens, jordaniens et palestiniens, et la conception de récits pouvant être reçus aussi bien par les communautés locales que régionales. [source] Mande Potters and Leatherworkers: Art and Heritage in West AfricaAMERICAN ANTHROPOLOGIST, Issue 2 2000Olivier P. Gosselain Mande Potters and Leatherworkers: Art and Heritage in West Africa. Barbara E. Frank. Washington, DC: Smithsonian Institution Press, 1998. 192 pp. [source] Heritage or Heresy: Archaeology and Culture on the Maya Riviera by Cameron Jean WalkerAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 1 2010GRANT J. RICH No abstract is available for this article. [source] The Politics of Heritage from Madras to Chennai by Mary E. HancockAMERICAN ETHNOLOGIST, Issue 1 2010LUCIA VOLK No abstract is available for this article. [source] Levinas and the Greek Heritage.THE HEYTHROP JOURNAL, Issue 6 2009By Jean-Marc Narbonne, One Hundred Years of Neoplatonism in France: A Brief Philosophical History. No abstract is available for this article. [source] CIPA 2009 Symposium: Digital Documentation, Interpretation and Presentation Of Cultural HeritageTHE PHOTOGRAMMETRIC RECORD, Issue 130 2010P. Grussenmeyer No abstract is available for this article. [source] Deconstructing Jaco: Genetic Heritage of an AfrikanerANNALS OF HUMAN GENETICS, Issue 5 2007J. M. Greeff Summary It is often assumed that Afrikaners stem from a small number of Dutch immigrants. As a result they should be genetically homogeneous, show founder effects and be rather inbred. By disentangling my own South African pedigree, that is on average 12 generations deep, I try to quantify the genetic heritage of an Afrikaner. As much as 6% of my genes have been contributed by slaves from Africa, Madagascar and India, and a woman from China. This figure compares well to other genetic and genealogical estimates. Seventy three percent of my lineages coalesce into common founders, and I am related in excess of 10 times to 20 founder ancestors (30 times to Willem Schalk van der Merwe). Significant founder effects are thus possible. The overrepresentation of certain founder ancestors is in part explained by the fact that they had more children. This is remarkable given that they lived more than 300 years (or 12 generations) ago. DECONSTRUCT, a new program for pedigree analysis, identified 125 common ancestors in my pedigree. However, these common ancestors are so distant from myself, paths of between 16 and 25 steps in length, that my inbreeding coefficient is not unusually high (f , 0.0019). [source] Al-Aqir near Bahl,', an Early Bronze Age dam site with planoconvex ,copper' ingotsARABIAN ARCHAEOLOGY AND EPIGRAPHY, Issue 1 2003Gerd Weisgerber Some 20 years ago the Ministry of National Heritage and Culture received an important collection of planoconvex copper ingots, tools and anthropomorphic figures which came from a site at al-Aqir near Bahl,' in the al-Z,hirah Wil,ya. Several years elapsed before their provenance could be reconstructed and the site could be investigated. The finds had been deposited as building offerings in a prehistoric, 300 m-long dam built to trap soil and moisture for agricultural purposes. Although the area has been intensively used since at least 3000 BC, the evidence for irrigation installations does not pre-date 2000 BC. The finds are dedicatory rather than functional in nature. [source] Integrated geophysical and topographical investigation in the territory of Ancient Tarquinia (Viterbo, central Italy)ARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION, Issue 3 2007S. Piro Abstract This paper presents the results of an ongoing study of the territory of Ancient Tarquinia (Viterbo, central Italy). The work is part of the University of Milano's ,Tarquinia Project', which studies the monumental area of this territory with particular emphasis on the ,Ara della Regina' temple site. To enhance the knowledge of this territory, a scientific collaboration between the University of Milano (Department of Science of Antiquity) and the Institute of Technologies Applied to Cultural Heritage (ITABC-C.N.R.) was initiated in 2000 and is still in progress. The primary objective of the study was to determine the location and degree of conservation of unknown buried structures below the sites studied, using the integration of topographical surveys, three-dimensional laser scanner surveys of the temple and ground-based remote sensing surveys. The remote sensing surveys were carried out using the ground-penetrating radar (GPR). The analysis of the GPR time-slice maps indicates that some structural formations and walls of the buildings are still present below the surface. The results presented and discussed in this paper demonstrate the potential of both the topographical survey combined with the three-dimensional laser scanner survey of the monument and the remote sensing technique for understanding of the presence and the extent of buried buildings with respect to the temple area. Copyright © 2007 John Wiley & Sons, Ltd. [source] Light detection and ranging (lidar) in the Witham Valley, Lincolnshire: an assessment of new remote sensing techniquesARCHAEOLOGICAL PROSPECTION, Issue 4 2006Simon Crutchley Abstract Airborne light detection and ranging (lidar) allows the identification and accurate recording of upstanding features on the ground to sub-metre accuracy. The technique has previously been tested in areas of known high monument density such as the Stonehenge World Heritage Site with exciting results, but it is also proving useful in less spectacular areas. This paper will look at some recent work carried out by the Aerial Survey Team at English Heritage concentrating on an area in the Witham Valley, east of Lincoln in the east of England. The area has recently been covered by an archaeological aerial survey project as part of the National Mapping Programme; examining the lidar data for the same area has revealed some interesting results. Lidar clearly has potential for recording certain site types and especially in highlighting relationships between sites in the broader landscape, but there are limitations with the standard off the shelf data due to issues of spatial resolution. The study also makes clear the importance of not using lidar data alone, but ensuring that it is part of an examination of all readily available sources. Copyright © 2006 English Heritage. NMR. [source] | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||