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Cuban Cultural Heritage
Cuban Cultural Heritage explores the role that cultural heritage and museums played in the construction of a national identity in postcolonial Cuba. Starting with independence from …
Mythic Frontiers
The history of the Wild West has long been fictionalized in novels, films, and television shows. Catering to these popular representations, towns across America have created …
Colonialism, Community, and Heritage in Native New England
Exploring museums and cultural centers in New England that hold important meanings for Native American communities today, this illuminating book offers a much-needed critique of …
Cultural Heritage Management
Even as places and objects that have particular cultural significance are increasingly valued in our global world, powerful forces threaten them with destruction. Cultural Heritage …
Heritage at the Interface
Bringing together high-profile cultural heritage sites from around the world, this volume shows how the term heritage has been used or understood by different groups of people over …
Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage
Focusing on three communities in North, Central, and South America, Earth Politics and Intangible Heritage layers archaeological research with local knowledge in its …
Heritage of Value, Archaeology of Renown
These essays urge archaeologists to reexamine and to change their basic assumptions about how we assign value to cultural places and, beyond that, how we should understand and …
The Rosewood Massacre
The Rosewood Massacre investigates the 1923 massacre that devastated the predominantly African American community of Rosewood, Florida. The town was burned to the ground by …
Ethnographies and Archaeologies
Ethnographies and Archaeologies explores the many different ways that the archaeological past is used to create meaning in the present. Under the guidance of editors Lena Mortensen …
Pedagogy and Practice in Heritage Studies
As more and more people are recognizing the need for accurately representing the story of the United States in public narratives, especially those told at museums and historic …
Slavery behind the Wall
Cuba had the largest slave society of the Spanish colonial empire and thus the most plantations. The lack of archaeological data for interpreting these sites is a glaring void in …
Race, Place, and Memory
A revealing work of public history that shows how communities remember their pasts in different ways to fit specific narratives, Race, Place, and Memory charts the ebb and flow of …