Identity and Heritage: Contemporary Challenges in a Globalized World

171 Pages·2015·8.41 MB·English

by  Peter F. Biehl

SPRINGER BRIEFS IN ARCHAEOLOGY
ARCHAEOLOGICAL HERITAGE MANAGEMENT
Peter F. Biehl
Douglas C. Comer
Christopher Prescott
Hilary A. Soderland Editors
Identity and
Heritage
Contemporary
Challenges in a
Globalized World
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Identity and Heritage
Contemporary Challenges
in a Globalized World
Editors
Peter F. Biehl Douglas C. Comer
University at Buffalo Cultural Site Research and Management Inc.,
The State University of New York Baltimore , MD , USA
Buffalo , NY, USA
Hilary A. Soderland
Christopher Prescott University of Washington School of Law
University of Oslo Seattle , WA , USA
Oslo , Norway
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Contents
Part I Introduction
1 Identities and Heritage: Contemporary Challenges
in a Globalized World ............................................................................. 3
Hilary A. Soderland, Peter F. Biehl, Douglas C. Comer,
and Christopher Prescott
Part II Identities of Heritage: From Global Publics
to Local Communities
2 Archaeology as Global Public Good and Local Identity Good ........... 11
Douglas C. Comer
3 Conceptualizing Cultural Heritage as a Common ............................... 27
Pablo Alonso González
4 Identity and Heritage in the Global City: The Barbican
Estate and Robin Hood Gardens, London, UK .................................... 37
Caroline A. Sandes
5 The Heritage Sector in a Multicultural Society:
A Discussion from a Swedish Perspective ............................................. 47
Anders Högberg
6 The Frontiers of the Roman Empire World Heritage
Site and Transnational Heritage ............................................................ 55
Richard Hingley
7 World Heritage and Sites of Confl ict: How the War
on Terror Is Affecting Heritage in Peshawar, Pakistan ....................... 65
Jennifer L. Campbell
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8 Heritage Interpretation as a Conservation Tool
in Mexican Archaeology: Theory and Practice .................................... 73
Manuel Gándara
Part III Identities of Heritage: Minorities and Indigenous
Peoples in a Globalized World
9 Identity and Culturally Defi ned Methods of Adaptation
Amongst the Wadandi People of Southwestern Australia ................... 85
David R. Guilfoyle, Myles B. Mitchell, and Wayne Webb
10 Echoes of the Iroquois Wars: Contested Heritage and Identity
in the Ancestral Homeland of the Huron-Wendat ............................... 97
Ronald F. Williamson and Robert I. MacDonald
11 Heritage Overlooked and Under Threat:
Fort Conger and the Heroic Age of Polar Exploration ....................... 107
Peter Dawson, Margaret Bertulli, Lyle Dick,
and Panik Lynn Cousins
12 Co-opted Heritage: Political Action, Identity,
and Preservation at the Pagat Site, Guam ............................................ 117
John A. Peterson
13 Ancient Bodies, Modern Ideologies: Bog Bodies and Identity
in Denmark and Ireland ......................................................................... 129
Margaret Comer
14 Heritage and Migration in Barcelona:
Building Constructive Citizenship ......................................................... 135
Margarita Díaz-Andreu
15 Presenting Archaeological Heritage:
Identity and Interpretation in Heritage Tourism Planning ................ 145
James A. Zeidler
Part IV Outlook
16 The Future Challenges of Heritage and Identity
in a Globalized World ............................................................................. 161
Douglas C. Comer, Peter F. Biehl, Christopher Prescott ,
and Hilary A. Soderland
Index ................................................................................................................. 169
Contributors
Margaret Bertulli Parks Canada , Winnipeg , MB , Canada
Peter F. Biehl U niversity at Buffalo, The State University of New York, B uffalo,
NY , USA
Jennifer L. Campbell State University of New York , Oswego , NY , USA
Douglas C. Comer Cultural Site Research and Management, Inc. , Baltimore , MD ,
USA
Margaret Comer University of Cambridge , Cambridge , UK
Panik Lynn Cousins Nunavut Field Unit , Parks Canada , Iqaluit , NT , Canada
Peter Dawson Department of Archaeology , University of Calgary , Calgary , AB ,
Canada
Margarita Díaz-Andreu ICREA-Universitat de Barcelona , Barcelona , Spain
Lyle Dick History and Heritage , Vancouver , BC , Canada
Manuel Gándara E scuela Nacional de Conservación, Restauración y Museografía
(ENCRyM), ENCRyM-INAH, San Diego Churubusco , Coyoacán , Mexico
Pablo Alonso González University of Cambridge , Cambridge , UK
David R. Guilfoyle Applied Archaeology International , Albany , WA , Australia
Northern Land Use Research Alaska , Fairbanks , AK , USA
Centre of Excellence in Natural Resource Management, University of Western
Australia , Albany , WA , Australia
Western Australian Museum , Perth , WA , Australia
Richard Hingley Durham University , Durham , UK
Anders Högberg Linnaeus University , Kalmar , Sweden
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Robert I. MacDonald Archaeological Services, Inc. , Toronto , ON , Canada
Myles B. Mitchell Applied Archaeology International , Albany , WA , Australia
National Centre for Indigenous Studies, Australian National University , Acton ,
ACT , Australia
John A. Peterson University of Guam , Mangilao , GU , USA
Christopher Prescott University of Oslo , Oslo , Norway
Caroline A. Sandes University College London , London , UK
Hilary A. Soderland University of Washington School of Law , Seattle , WA , USA
Wayne Webb Wadandi-Bibbulmun Senior Custodian , Dowark Foundation, Walpole,
Australia
Ronald F. Williamson Archaeological Services, Inc. , Toronto , ON , Canada
James A. Zeidler Colorado State University , Fort Collins , CO , USA
About the Editors
Dr. Peter F. Biehl i s Professor of Anthropology and the current Chair of the
Department of Anthropology at the University at Buffalo. He is also Director of the
Institute for European and Mediterranean Archaeology (IEMA) and is an executive
board member for the European Association of Archaeologists (EAA). He has
developed an interdisciplinary Master’s Program in Cultural Heritage and teaches
an introductory course on cultural heritage and an advanced course on digital heri-
tage. He was the organizer of “The Future of Heritage: Laws, Ethics and
Sustainability,” an interdisciplinary symposium that was funded by the Baldy Center
for Law and Social Policy of the University at Buffalo. He directs the international
West Mound research project at Çatalhöyük in Turkey and supervises a Ph.D. on
heritage management in Turkey. He has published widely on Neolithic and Copper
Age Europe and Near East, archaeological method and theory, cognitive archaeol-
ogy and the social meaning of visual imagery and representation, archaeology of
cult and religion, museums and archaeological collections, multimedia in archaeol-
ogy, and heritage studies.
Dr. Douglas C. Comer i s President of Cultural Site Research and Management
(CSRM) and the CSRM Foundation, and Co-President of the International
Committee on Archaeological Heritage Management (ICAHM) for ICOMOS. A
Fulbright Scholar in cultural resource management, he served for 15 years as Chief
of the United States National Park Service Applied Archaeology Center and 9 years
as Chair of the Maryland Governor’s Advisory Committee on Archaeology. After
two terms on the Board of Trustees for the United States Committee for ICOMOS
(US/ICOMOS), he now represents the Society for American Archaeology (SAA) on
the Board. He is Senior Editor of the Conservation and Preservation Section of the
Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology , Senior Editor for the Springer Press/ICAHM
publication series M ultidisciplinary Perspectives in Archaeological Heritage
Management , Fellow at the Whiting School of Engineering, The Johns Hopkins
University, and Visiting Independent Advisor with the NASA Jet Propulsion
Laboratory at Caltech (JPL/NASA). He has published extensively on archaeology,
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