Engaging Heritage, Engaging Communities
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Description for Engaging Heritage, Engaging Communities
Hardback. International, multi-disciplinary perspectives on the key question of community engagement in theory and practice in a diverse range of heritage settings. Num Pages: 256 pages, 10 colour illustrations, 4 black & white line drawings. BIC Classification: GM. Category: (P) Professional & Vocational. Dimension: 250 x 176 x 22. Weight in Grams: 756.
Across the global networks of heritage sites, museums, and galleries, the importance of communities to the interpretation and conservation of heritage is increasingly being recognised. Yet the very term meaningful community engagement betrays a myriad of contrary approaches and understandings. Who is a community? How can they engage with heritage and why would they want to? How do communities and heritage professionals perceive one another? What does it mean to engage ? These questions unsettle the very foundations of community engagement and indicate a need to unpick this important but complex trend. Engaging Heritage, ... Read more
Across the global networks of heritage sites, museums, and galleries, the importance of communities to the interpretation and conservation of heritage is increasingly being recognised. Yet the very term meaningful community engagement betrays a myriad of contrary approaches and understandings. Who is a community? How can they engage with heritage and why would they want to? How do communities and heritage professionals perceive one another? What does it mean to engage ? These questions unsettle the very foundations of community engagement and indicate a need to unpick this important but complex trend. Engaging Heritage, ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2017
Publisher
Boydell & Brewer Ltd
Condition
New
Number of Pages
256
Place of Publication
Woodbridge, United Kingdom
ISBN
9781783271658
SKU
V9781783271658
Shipping Time
Usually ships in 7 to 11 working days
Ref
99-1
Reviews for Engaging Heritage, Engaging Communities
Contributes to the growing literature about heritage and community...provides much to think about. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF INTANGIBLE HERITAGE