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Heritage Theory

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Introduction

The field of heritage studies burst onto the academic scene in the late 1980s in tandem with the birth of critical museum studies, rise of the new social history, growth of postcolonial theory, the cultural turn in anthropology, and so forth throughout the humanities. Over the past three decades, heritage studies have ranged from descriptive to theoretical, local to worldwide in scale, focused on developing and developed societies, and directed at deep prehistory through to the present day. A multitude of issues in countless places have been addressed, sometimes repeatedly with different disciplinary nuances.

Definition

The retheorization of heritage studies as “critical heritage studies” (henceforth, CHS) focuses on many topics of interest in the humanities and social sciences overall: bodies of knowledge, class, colonialism/postcolonialism, dominant rhetoric/authoritative discourse, gender, globalization, identity, ideology, institutions, memory work, nationalism,...

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  1. Department of Anthropology, University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA

    Helaine Silverman

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    Claire Smith

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Silverman, H. (2014). Heritage Theory. In: Smith, C. (eds) Encyclopedia of Global Archaeology. Springer, New York, NY. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4419-0465-2_287

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