ORPP logo
Image from Google Jackets

Transcending the Culture-Nature Divide in Cultural Heritage : Views from the Asia-Pacific Region.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Terra Australis SeriesPublisher: Canberra : ANU Press, 2013Copyright date: ©2013Edition: 1st edDescription: 1 online resource (254 pages)Content type:
  • text
Media type:
  • computer
Carrier type:
  • online resource
ISBN:
  • 9781922144058
Subject(s): Genre/Form: Additional physical formats: Print version:: Transcending the Culture-Nature Divide in Cultural HeritageLOC classification:
  • DU28 -- .T73 2013eb
Online resources:
Contents:
Preliminary pages -- Biographies -- Introduction: Engaging culture and nature -- 1. Nature and culture in World Heritage management: A view from the Asia-Pacific (or, never waste a good crisis!) -- 2. Customary systems of management and World Heritage in the Pacific Islands -- 3. Poetics and politics: Bikini Atoll and World Heritage Listing -- 4. Nature and culture in a global context: A case study from World Heritage Listed Komodo National Park, eastern Indonesia -- 5. Changing perspectives on the relationship between heritage, landscape and local communities: A lesson from Borobudur -- 6. Being on Country: Githabul approaches to mapping culture -- 7. Exploring the role of archaeology within Indigenous natural resource management: A case study from Western Australia -- 8. Traim tasol … Cultural heritage management in Papua New Guinea -- 9. Hierarchies of engagement and understanding: Community engagement during archaeological excavations at Khao Toh Chong rockshelter, Krabi, Thailand -- 10. Local heritage and the problem with conservation -- 11. The WCPA's Natural Sacred Sites Taskforce: A critique of conservation biology's view of popular religion -- 12. Sacred places in Ussu and Cerekang, South Sulawesi, Indonesia: Their history, ecology and pre-Islamic relation with the Bugis kingdom of Luwuq -- 13. Cultural heritage and its performative modalities: Imagining the Nino Konis Santana National Park in East Timor -- 14. The dynamics of culture and nature in a 'protected' Fataluku landscape -- Index.
Summary: This collection brings together papers on the current mechanisms in place in the region to conserve cultural heritage values. It will provide an overview of the extent to which local communities have been engaged in assessing the significance of this heritage and conserving it.
Tags from this library: No tags from this library for this title. Log in to add tags.
Star ratings
    Average rating: 0.0 (0 votes)
No physical items for this record

Preliminary pages -- Biographies -- Introduction: Engaging culture and nature -- 1. Nature and culture in World Heritage management: A view from the Asia-Pacific (or, never waste a good crisis!) -- 2. Customary systems of management and World Heritage in the Pacific Islands -- 3. Poetics and politics: Bikini Atoll and World Heritage Listing -- 4. Nature and culture in a global context: A case study from World Heritage Listed Komodo National Park, eastern Indonesia -- 5. Changing perspectives on the relationship between heritage, landscape and local communities: A lesson from Borobudur -- 6. Being on Country: Githabul approaches to mapping culture -- 7. Exploring the role of archaeology within Indigenous natural resource management: A case study from Western Australia -- 8. Traim tasol … Cultural heritage management in Papua New Guinea -- 9. Hierarchies of engagement and understanding: Community engagement during archaeological excavations at Khao Toh Chong rockshelter, Krabi, Thailand -- 10. Local heritage and the problem with conservation -- 11. The WCPA's Natural Sacred Sites Taskforce: A critique of conservation biology's view of popular religion -- 12. Sacred places in Ussu and Cerekang, South Sulawesi, Indonesia: Their history, ecology and pre-Islamic relation with the Bugis kingdom of Luwuq -- 13. Cultural heritage and its performative modalities: Imagining the Nino Konis Santana National Park in East Timor -- 14. The dynamics of culture and nature in a 'protected' Fataluku landscape -- Index.

This collection brings together papers on the current mechanisms in place in the region to conserve cultural heritage values. It will provide an overview of the extent to which local communities have been engaged in assessing the significance of this heritage and conserving it.

Description based on publisher supplied metadata and other sources.

Electronic reproduction. Ann Arbor, Michigan : ProQuest Ebook Central, 2024. Available via World Wide Web. Access may be limited to ProQuest Ebook Central affiliated libraries.

There are no comments on this title.

to post a comment.

© 2024 Resource Centre. All rights reserved.