A Companion to Heritage Studies is a comprehensive, state-of-the-art survey of the interdisciplinary study of cultural heritage.

Table of Contents

• List of Figures and Tables
• Notes on Contributors
• Acknowledgements
• List of Abbreviations
• Framework
• 1 The New Heritage Studies: Origins and Evolution, Problems and Prospects
• Expanding Heritage
• 2 Heritage Places: Evolving Conceptions and Changing Forms
• 3 From Folklore to Intangible Heritage
• 4 Cultural Heritage and Intellectual Property: Convergence, Divergence, and Interface
• 5 Intangible Heritage and Embodiment: Japan's Influence on Global Heritage Discourse
• 6 The Politics of Heritage in the Land of Food and Wine
• 7 (Re)visioning the Ma'ohi Landscape of Marae Taputapuatea, French Polynesia: World Heritage and Indigenous Knowledge Systems in the Pacific Islands
• 8 The Kingdom of Death as a Heritage Site: Making Sense of Auschwitz
• 9 The Memory of the World and its Hidden Facets
• 10 African Indigenous Heritage in Colonial and Postcolonial Museums: The Case of the Batwa of Africa's Great Lakes Region
• Using and Abusing Heritage
• 11 Valuing the Past, or, Untangling the Social, Political, and Economic Importance of Cultural Heritage Sites
• 12 Cultural Heritage under the Gaze of International Tourism Marketing Campaigns
• 13 Heritagescaping and the Esthetics of Refuge: Challenges to Urban Sustainability
• 14 Cultural Heritage as a Strategy for Social Needs and Community Identity
• 15 Heritage in the Digital Age
• 16 World Heritage and National Hegemony: The Discursive Formation of Chinese Political Authority
• 17 War Museums and Memory Wars in Contemporary Poland
• 18 Heritage in an Expanded Field: Reconstructing Bridge-ness in Mostar
• 19 Heritage Under Fire: Lessons from Iraq for Cultural Property Protection
• 20 The Intentional Destruction of Heritage: Bamiyan and Timbuktu
• 21 Heritage and the Politics of Cultural Obliteration: The Case of the Andes
• Recasting Heritage
• 22 The Economic Feasibility of Heritage Preservation
• 23 UNESCO and Cultural Heritage: Unexpected Consequences
• 24 The Limits of Heritage: Corporate Interests and Cultural Rights on Resource Frontiers
• 25 Indigenous Peoples’ Rights and the World Heritage Convention
• 26 UNESCO, the World Heritage Convention, and Africa: The Practice and the Practitioners
• 27 World Heritage Sites in Africa: What Are the Benefits of Nomination and Inscription?
• 28 Heritage in the “Asian Century”: Responding to Geopolitical Change
• 29 (Re-)Building Heritage: Integrating Tangible and Intangible
• 30 The Elephant in the Room: Heritage, Affect, and Emotion
• 31 Cross-Cultural Encounters and “Difficult Heritage” on the Thai–Burma Railway: An Ethics of Cosmopolitanism rather than Practices of Exclusion
• 32 Heritage and Cosmopolitanism
• 33 ”Putting Broken Pieces Back Together“: Reconciliation, Justice, and Heritage in Post-Conflict Situations
• 34 Achieving Dialogue through Transnational World Heritage Nomination: The Case of the Silk Roads
• 35 World Heritage: Alternative Futures
• 36 Challenges for International Cultural Heritage Law
• 37 The New Heritage Studies and Education, Training, and Capacity-Building