Heritage Studies (eBook, PDF)

Methods and Approaches
Redaktion: Sørensen, Marie Louise Stig; Carman, John

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This is the first volume specifically dedicated to the consolidation and clarification of Heritage Studies as a distinct field with its own means of investigation. It presents the range of methods that can be used and illustrates their application through case studies from different parts of the world, including the UK and USA. The challenge that the collection makes explicit is that Heritage Studies must develop a stronger recognition of the scope and nature of its data and a concise yet explorative understanding of its analytical methods.

The methods considered fall within three broad categories: textual/discourse analysis, methods for investigating people's attitudes and behaviour; and methods for exploring the material qualities of heritage. The methods discussed and illustrated range from techniques such as text analysis, interviews, participant observation, to semiotic analysis of heritage sites and the use of GIS. Each paper discusses the ways in which methods used in social analysis generally are explored and adapted to the specific demands that arise when applied to the investigation of heritage in its many forms.

Heritage Studies is a seminal volume that will help to define the field. The global perspective and the shared focus upon the development of reflexive methodologies ensure that the volume explores these central issues in a manner that is simultaneously case-specific and of general relevance.

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Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis eBooks
• Seitenzahl: 360
• Erscheinungstermin: 18. September 2009
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9781135249502
• Artikelnr.: 43071808

Autorenporträt

Marie Louise Stig Sørensen, John Carman

Inhaltsangabe

Part 1: Setting the Scene 1. Introduction: Making the Means Transparent:
Reasons and Reflections 2. Heritage Studies - An Outline 3. Public
Archaeology in United States in the Early Twenty-First Century Part 2:
Heritage Methodologies: Investigating Texts 4. The History of Heritage: A
Method in Analyzing Legislative Historiography 5. Means Maketh the End -
The Context for the Development of Methodologies to Assessing the State of
the Historic Environment in the UK 6. Methods Used to Investigate the Use
of the Past in the Formation of Regional Identities Part 3: Heritage
Methodologies: Investigating People 7. Reflections on the Practice of
Ethnography Within Heritage Tourism 8. Heritage Ethnography as a
Specialised Craft: Grasping Maritime Heritage in Bermuda 9. Between the
Lines and in the Margins: Interviewing People About Attitudes to Heritage
and Identity 10. Walking a Fine Line: Obtaining Sensitive Information Using
a Valid Methodology 11. Methods for Investigating Locals' Perceptions of a
Cultural Heritage Product for Tourism: Lessons from Botswana Susan 12. The
Public Archaeology of African America: Reflections on Pragmatic Methods and
their Results Part 4: Heritage Methodologies: Investigating Things 13. The
Use of GIS in Landscape Heritage and Attitudes to Place-Digital Deep Maps
14. Making them Draw: The Use of Drawings in Research into Public Attitudes
Towards the Past 15. The Heritagescape: Looking at Heritage Sites 16. The
Intangible Presence: Investigating Battlefields Part 5: Commentaries
Commentary: the View from Social Anthropology Commentary: The View from
Environmental Psychology