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Heritage, memory, community archaeology and the politics of the past form the main strands running through the papers in this volume. The authors tackle these subjects from a range of different philosophical perspectives, with many drawing on the experience of recent community, commercial and other projects. Throughout, there is a strong emphasis on both the philosophy of engagement and with its enactment in specific contexts; the essays deal with an interest in the meaning, value and contested nature of the recent past and in the theory and practice of archaeological engagements with that past.

Chris Dalglish is a lecturer in archaeology at the University of Glasgow. Contributors: Julia Beaumont, David Bowsher, Terry Brown, Jo Buckberry, Chris Dalglish, James Dixon, Audrey Horning, Robert Isherwood, Robert C Janaway, Melanie Johnson, Siân Jones, Catriona Mackie, Janet Montgomery, Harold Mytum, Michael Nevell, Natasha Powers, Biddy Simpson, Matt Town, Andrew Wilson

Archaeology --- Archaelogical parks --- Collective memory --- Historic sites --- Archéologie --- Parcs archéologiques --- Mémoire collective --- Lieux historiques --- Social aspects --- Educational aspects --- Aspect social --- Aspect éducatif --- Archéologie --- Parcs archéologiques --- Mémoire collective --- Aspect éducatif --- Community archaeology. --- Social aspects. --- Public opinion. --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Collaborative archaeology --- Community-based archaeology --- Public archaeology --- Archaeology. --- Community. --- Engagement. --- Heritage. --- Memory. --- Philosophical Perspectives. --- Politics. --- Practice. --- Public. --- Recent Past. --- Theory. --- Public relations.

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My interest in the archaeology of the Scottish Highlands began long before I had any formal training in the subject. Growing up on the eastern fringes of the southern Highlands, close to Loch Lomond, it was not hard stumble across ruined buildings, old field boundaries, and other traces of everyday life in the past. This is especially true if you spend much time, as I have done, climbing the nearby mountains and walking and driving through the various glens that give access into the Highlands. At the time, I had no real understanding of these remains, simply accepting them as being built and old. After studying archaeology for a few years at the University of Glasgow, itself only a short commute from the area where I grew up, I became acutely aware that I still had no real understanding of these - miliar, yet enigmatic, buildings and fields. This and a growing interest in Scotland’s historical archaeology drove me to take several courses on the subject of rural settlement studies. These courses allowed me to place what I now knew to be houses, barns, mills, shieling (transhumance) settlements, rig-and-furrow cultivation, and other related remains in history. Overwhelmingly, they seemed to date from the period of the last 300 years. I also began to understand how they all worked together as component parts of daily rural life in the past.

Material culture --- Land settlement --- Country life --- Highlands (Scotland) --- Social life and customs. --- Social conditions. --- Rural conditions. --- Antiquities. --- Archaeology. --- Anthropology. --- History. --- History, general. --- Annals --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Human beings --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- History --- Antiquities