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The practice of archaeology has many different facets: from academia, to government, to cultural resource management, to public media. Considering the place of archaeology in society means understanding the roles that archaeology has in the present day and a sense of the contributions that it can make in each of these areas, both now and in the future. Archaeologists come to the field to pursue a variety of interests: teaching, examining history, preserving the environment, or studying a specialized time period or interest. The outside world has a number of other expectations of archaeology: preservation, tourism, and education, to name but a few. From a broad and varied background, the editors have compiled a rare group of contributors uniquely qualified to address questions about the current state of archaeology and its relevance in society. There is no single answer to the question of how the field of archaeology should develop, and what it can do for society. Instead, the authors in this volume lay out the many ways in which archaeology is relevant to the present day - considering, for example, climate change, energy exploration, warfare, national identity, the importance of stories and how they are told, and how and why opportunities to engage with the past through museums, digs, television, classes, and the print media have the forms they currently do - creating a state-of-the-art tool for archaeologists, policymakers and the public alike to understand the work of many in the field and address the challenges we all face.

Archaeology. --- Archaeology --- History & Archaeology --- Social aspects --- Social aspects. --- Archeology --- Social sciences. --- Cultural heritage. --- Social Sciences. --- Cultural Heritage. --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas

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This is an innovative exploration of cultural heritage and the literary traditions that shape the contemporary literary scene in Spain. Through a coalescence of museum studies, metacriticism and traditional literary criticism the study interweaves discussion of museum spaces with literary analysis, exploring them as agents of memorialisation and a means for preserving and conveying heritage. Following introductory explorations of the development of museums and the literary canon, each chapter begins with a "visit" to a Spanish museum, establishing the framework for the subsequent discussion of critical practices and texts. Case studies include examination of the palimpsest and unconscious influence of canonical cores; the response to masculine traditions of poetry and art; counter-culture of the 1990s; and the ethical concerns of postmemory writing. STUART DAVIS is a Lecturer in Spanish, Girton College, and Newton Trust Lecturer in the Department of Spanish and Portuguese, University of Cambridge.

Spanish literature --- Criticism --- Canon (Literature) --- History in literature. --- Cultural property --- Museums --- Public institutions --- Cabinets of curiosities --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Classics, Literary --- Literary canon --- Literary classics --- Best books --- Literature --- Evaluation of literature --- Literary criticism --- Rhetoric --- Aesthetics --- History and criticism. --- History and criticism --- Technique --- Evaluation --- Spain --- Civilization.

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Excavations (Archaeology) --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Exhibitions --- Expositions --- Marseille (France) --- Delphi (Extinct city) --- Delphes (Ville ancienne) --- Antiquities --- Foreign economic relations --- Buildings, structures, etc. --- Antiquités --- Relations économoiques extérieures --- Construction --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités --- Relations économoiques extérieures --- Cultural property --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Delphi (Ancient city) --- Pytho (Extinct city) --- Greece --- Marseilles (France) --- Marsel' (France) --- Marsiglia (France) --- Marsiho (France) --- Marsella (France) --- History

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Every aspect of the personality of Janssen (1824—1907) – that D’Artagnan of science, this bard of the Sun, and this audacious master builder – is covered here by Françoise Launay, his attentive and equally erudite biographer. A physicist, inventor and builder, Janssen was guided by his energy and curiosity. His research followed two directions: on the one hand the atmospheres of the Earth and the Sun, and on the other, two techniques: spectroscopy and photography. Among his numerous voyages across the globe, he went to Japan in 1874 to follow the transit of Venus in front of the Sun, the same year in which he invented his famous photographic revolver, which was, in truth, a great technical success. To observe the Sun during total eclipses he traveled to the Indies in 1868, to Oran in 1870 (escaping from besieged Paris by balloon!), returned to India in 1871, left for Siam in 1875 and, in 1883, for an island in the Pacific. One can thus understand why Henriette often complained of the solitude in which she was left by her peripatetic husband: “There are men who leave their wives for mistresses; you do it for journeys!” ... Basking in the glow of his success, Janssen was able to undertake the construction of the great astrophysical observatory of which he had dreamed. It was at Meudon that he had it built. From the Preface by Jean-Claude Pecker.

Astronomers -- France -- Biography. --- Astronomers --- Astronomy & Astrophysics --- Physical Sciences & Mathematics --- Astronomy - General --- Janssen, Jules, --- Cultural heritage. --- Astronomy, Observations and Techniques. --- Cultural Heritage. --- History and Philosophical Foundations of Physics. --- Physical scientists --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Observations, Astronomical. --- Astronomy—Observations. --- Physics. --- Natural philosophy --- Philosophy, Natural --- Physical sciences --- Dynamics --- Astronomical observations --- Observations, Astronomical --- Physics

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This monograph analyzes current cultural resource management, archeological heritage management, and exhibitionary practices and policies in the People’s Republic of China. Academic researchers, preservationists, and other interested parties face a range of challenges for the preservation of the material past as rapid economic and social changes continue in China.   On the one hand, state-supported development policies often threaten and in some cases lead to the destruction of archeological and cultural sites. Yet state cultural policies also encourage the cultivation of precisely such sites as tourism development resources. This monograph aims to bring the concepts of world heritage sites, national tourism policies, ethnic tourism, and museum display together for a general cultural heritage audience. It focuses on a central issue: the tensions between a wide range of interest groups:  cultural anthropologists and archeologists, tourism officials, heritage proponents, economic development proponents, a new class of private rich with the means to buy artifacts, and a fragmented regulatory system. Behind all of them lies the political role of heritage in China, also addressed in this monograph.  .

Heritage tourism --- Tourism --- China --- Politics and government. --- Cultural tourism --- Heritage tourism -- China. --- Historic preservation -- China. --- Historic sites -- China. --- Social sciences. --- Culture --- Cultural heritage. --- Archaeology. --- Social Sciences. --- Cultural Heritage. --- Regional and Cultural Studies. --- Study and teaching. --- Culture-Study and teaching. --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Culture—Study and teaching.