UCL Institute of Archaeology Critical Cultural Heritage Series
Stones Standing: Archaeology, Colonialism, and Ecotourism in Northern Laos
1st Edition
By Anna Källén
February 16, 2023
This book is an inquiry into the relationships between archaeology, colonialism and ecotourism at the famous standing stones of Hintang, Laos. It investigates the conditions under which archaeological knowledge has been produced, appropriated, contested, commodified, and consumed by colonialism ...
Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past
1st Edition
By Colin Sterling
April 01, 2021
Heritage, Photography, and the Affective Past critically examines the production, consumption, and interpretation of photography across various heritage domains, from global image archives to the domestic arena of the family album. Through original ethnographic and archival research, the book ...
Profane Egyptologists: The Modern Revival of Ancient Egyptian Religion
1st Edition
By Paul Harrison
December 12, 2019
It is widely believed that the practice of ancient Egyptian religion ceased with the end of pharaonic culture and the rise of Christianity. However, an organised reconstruction and revival of the authentic practice of Egyptian, or Kemetic religion has been growing, almost undocumented, for ...
Constructing Destruction: Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City
1st Edition
By Trinidad Rico
April 16, 2018
Large-scale disasters mobilize heritage professionals to a narrative of heritage-at-risk and a standardized set of processes to counter that risk. Trinidad Rico’s critical ethnography analyses heritage practices in the aftermath of the tsunami that swamped Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in 2004 and the ...
Mundane Objects: Materiality and Non-verbal Communication
1st Edition
By Pierre Lemonnier
August 31, 2013
This concise book shows the importance of objects that are considered ordinary by cultural outsiders and scholars, yet lie at the heart of the systems of thought and practices of their makers and users. This volume demonstrates the role of these objects in nonverbal communication, both in ...
The Politics of Heritage Management in Mali: From UNESCO to Djenné
1st Edition
By Charlotte L Joy
August 31, 2013
The UNESCO World Heritage Site of Djenné, in modern day Mali, is exalted as an enduring wonder of the ancient African world by archaeologists, anthropologists, state officials, architects and travel writers. In this revealing study, the author critically examines how the politics of heritage ...
Intangible Heritage and the Museum: New Perspectives on Cultural Preservation
1st Edition
By Marilena Alivizatou
June 30, 2012
In this comparative, international study Marilena Alivizatou investigates the relationship between museums and the new concept of “intangible heritage.” She charts the rise of intangible heritage within the global sphere of UN cultural policy and explores its implications both in terms of ...
Translating Museums: A Counterhistory of South Asian Museology
1st Edition
By Shaila Bhatti
June 15, 2012
Shaila Bhatti's immersive study of the Lahore Museum in Pakistan is one of the first books to offer an in-depth historical and ethnographic analysis of a South Asian museum. Bhatti thus presents an alternative example of visitor experience and museum practice to that of the West, which has been the...
Exhuming Loss: Memory, Materiality and Mass Graves of the Spanish Civil War
1st Edition
By Layla Renshaw
August 15, 2011
This book examines the contested representations of those murdered during the Spanish Civil War of the 1930s in two small rural communities as they undergo the experience of exhumation, identification, and reburial from nearby mass graves. Based on interviews with relatives of the dead, community ...
African Homecoming: Pan-African Ideology and Contested Heritage
1st Edition
By Katharina Schramm
September 15, 2010
African Americans and others in the African diaspora have increasingly “come home” to Africa to visit the sites at which their ancestors were enslaved and shipped. In this nuanced analysis of homecoming, Katharina Schramm analyzes how a shared rhetoric of the (Pan-)African family is produced among ...
Empire and Local Worlds: A Chinese Model for Long-Term Historical Anthropology
1st Edition
By Mingming Wang
June 15, 2009
Mingming Wang, one of the most prolific anthropologists in China, has produced a work both of long-term historical anthropology and of broad social theory. In it, he traces almost a millennium of history of the southern Chinese city of Quangzhou, a major international trading entrepot in the 13th ...
Reclaiming Heritage: Alternative Imaginaries of Memory in West Africa
1st Edition
Edited
By Ferdinand de Jong, Michael Rowlands
April 30, 2009
Struggles over the meaning of the past are common in postcolonial states. State cultural heritage programs build monuments to reinforce in nation building efforts—often supported by international organizations and tourist dollars. These efforts often ignore the other, often more troubling memories ...






