Shared Knowledge, Shared Power: Engaging Local and Indigenous Heritage

ISBN-13: 9783319686516 / Angielski / Miękka / 2017 / 148 str.

Veysel Apaydin

Opis

This volume brings together the experiences and research of heritage practitioners, archaeologists, and educators to explore new and unique approaches to heritage studies.The last several decades have witnessed a rapid increase in the field of cultural heritage studies worldwide.

Spis treści

1. Introduction: approaches to heritage and communities.- 2. Intellectual Soup: On the Reformulation and Repatriation of Indigenous Knowledge.- 3. Who knows what? Inclusivity versus exclusivity in the Interactions of Heritage and Local Communities.- 4. Community Archaeology in Ireland: Less mitigator, more mediator?.- 5. Shaping community heritage synergies between Roman Barcelona spaces and the Gothic neighborhood.- 6.The Herculaneum Centre: the reciprocal benefits gained from building capacities for cultural heritage among institutions and communities. 7. Get'em while they're young: Advances in participatory heritage education in Croatia. 8. The SITAR Project: webplatform for archaeological sharing knowledge. 9. TrowelBlazers: Accidentally crowd-sourcing an archive of women in archaeology. 10. Epilogue: Some reflections on community archaeology and heritage.

O autorze

Veysel Apaydin completed his Ph.D. in Cultural Heritage at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. His doctoral thesis (2015) evaluated political use of the past, identity construction and the relationship between heritage, education and attitudes towards heritage, taking modern-day Turkey as its case study. He worked as an archaeologist and heritage consultant in the United Kingdom and Turkey, and has taught social research methods, heritage and museum studies and public archaeology courses at the Institute of Archaeology, University College London. He is also currently editor of the heritage section of the Journal of Open Archaeology.