Scott F. Anfinson

Practical Heritage Management (eBook, PDF)

A Reasonable and Good Faith Effort

• Format: PDF

Produktbeschreibung

This comprehensive updated edition of Practical Heritage Management addresses updates in laws and new practices in heritage management, using perspectives from archaeology, history, and architecture.

Cultural heritage management (CHM) is the identification, protection, and interpretation of archaeological sites, historic structures, cultural artifacts, and other elements of cultural heritage both tangible and intangible. In this thoroughly updated and expanded second edition, Scott Anfinson presents a comprehensive overview of American heritage management, as well as a new chapter on international heritage management. This second edition also includes discussion of new guidelines for traditional cultural properties (TCPs) and new regulations implementing the Native American Graves Protection and Repatriation Act (NAGPRA). It has an expanded discussion of Indigenous aspects of CHM including US Pacific Island and Caribbean territories. It also expands the discussion of intangible cultural resources. While emphasizing that the American CHM system in law and practice is currently focused almost exclusively on tangible aspects, intangible aspects are critically important to many communities and help explain the nature of tangible manifestations and how they are deemed significant.

The main purposes of this second edition remain the same as the first edition: to help teach the basics of CHM to the next generation of professionals and to provide current professionals with a detailed overview of the American system.. Unlike other textbooks, Anfinson's book covers all three major CHM professions: archaeology, history, and architecture, as well as presenting a full chapter on the history of American CHM.
The book chapters cover definitions; a historical background to provide essential context; the legal and procedural framework of the American federal CHM system; the principal professional players in American CHM; Indigenous aspects; international CHM; practical perspectives and critical evaluations of important aspects of and problems with the current American CHM system, with suggestions for improvement.

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Bloomsbury eBooks US
• Seitenzahl: 648
• Erscheinungstermin: 8. Januar 2026
• Englisch
• ISBN-13: 9798765154748
• Artikelnr.: 76016135

Autorenporträt

Scott F. Anfinson is a former Minnesota State Archaeologist. Prior to that he directed a highway archaeology survey for the Minnesota Historical Society and was the archaeologist for the Minnesota State Historic Preservation Office, helping to implement the National Historic Preservation Act Section 106 and nominating properties to the National Register of Historic Places. He taught cultural heritage management at the University of Minnesota for 15 years. He has been awarded two Fulbright Research Grants to study Norwegian heritage management at the University of Oslo.

Anfinson has written and edited numerous publications including Practical Heritage Management: Preserving a Tangible Past (Rowman & Littlefield, 2019), Manual for Archaeological Projects in Minnesota (office of the State Archaeologist 2011), Southwestern Minnesota Archaeology (Minnesota Historical Society Press 1997), The Archaeology of the Central Minneapolis Riverfront (The Minnesota Archaeologist 1989, 1990), and A Handbook of Minnesota Prehistoric Ceramics (Minnesota Archaeological Society 1978). He has served as president of the Council for Minnesota Archaeology, editor of The Minnesota Archaeologist, director of the Minnesota Shipwreck Survey, and principal director of the Minnesota Statewide Survey of Historical and Archaeological Sites.

Inhaltsangabe

Preface
Acknowledgments
About the Author
Chapter 1: The Purpose, Structure, and Language of American Heritage
Management
Chapter 2: The History of American Heritage Management - A War Story
Chapter 3: The Legal System and Early Heritage Preservation Legislation -
Mortar and Some
Bricks
Chapter 4: The National Historic Preservation Act - A Firm Foundation
Chapter 5: The National Register of Historic Places - Keystone or
Cornerstone?
Chapter 6: Section 106 of NHPA - The Front Wall
Chapter 7: More Environmental Process Laws - The Other Walls
The National Environmental Policy Act (NEPA)Section 4(f) of the Department
of Transportation Act (DOTA)The Archaeological and Historic Preservation
Act (AHPA)
Chapter 8: Federal Specialty Laws - The Rest of the Structure
Laws for Federal Properties Laws for Urban Renewal and Redevelopment Laws
for Museums and Curation Laws for Special Properties and Areas
Chapter 9: Federal System Players - The Ground Floor of Heritage Management
The LeadersThe Property ManagersThe BuildersThe Permitters
Chapter 10: Non-Federal Heritage Management - The Building's Other
Occupants
Heritage Management in the StatesHeritage Management in CommunitiesHeritage
Management in the Private Sector
Chapter 11: Among the Professionals - Archaeology
Chapter 12: Among the Professionals - History and Architecture
Chapter 13: Tribal Matters - Tribes Matter
Chapter 14: Conclusions - Looking Back, Looking Forward
Appendix A: Glossary
Appendix B: Acronyms
Appendix C: Chronology Chart of American Heritage Management
Appendix D: Traditional Cultural Property Evaluation Worksheet
References
Index