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What happens when UNESCO heritage conventions are ratified by a state? How do UNESCO’s global efforts interact with preexisting local, regional and state efforts to conserve or promote culture? What new institutions emerge to address the mandate? The contributors to this volume focus on the work of translation and interpretation that ensues once heritage conventions are ratified and implemented. With seventeen case studies from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and China, the volume provides comparative evidence for the divergent heritage regimes generated in states that differ in history and political organization. The cases illustrate how UNESCO’s aspiration to honor and celebrate cultural diversity diversifies itself. The very effort to adopt a global heritage regime forces myriad adaptations to particular state and interstate modalities of building and managing heritage.

Cultural property --- Cultural policy --- Cultural heritage --- France --- Intangible cultural heritage --- UNESCO --- World Heritage Site --- Protection --- Unesco

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The 'Cradle of Humankind' (COH), bordering Gauteng and the NorthWest Province, was declared a World Heritage Site for the wealth of the human and animal fossils found there. Research based on fossils found in the area as well as signs of early human habitation have shed new light on the evolution of humankind and on the significant role that southern Africa played in the development of modern humans. A Search for Origins aims to provide an overview of the history of the COH, and of the important discoveries that have been made there, for a nonspecialist audience. A number of general accounts have been written which have concentrated on the palaeontological discoveries made there. No systematic account written by specialists in their disciplines has, however, been published about the wider history of the COH and surrounding areas. In particular, no overview spanning the evolution of early plant and animal life, human development and recent and colonial history as reflected in discoveries linked to the COH, has been attempted. This edited volume frames the scientific advances that have been made in the COH against the intellectual and political background out of which they emerged. The multidisciplinary approach - from a wide range of specialists - is innovative and groundbreaking.

Evolutionary paleobiology --- Fossil hominids --- Prehistoric peoples --- Evolutionary palaeobiology --- Evolution (Biology) --- Paleobiology --- Cradle of Humankind World Heritage Site (South Africa) --- South Africa --- Cradle of Humankind Fossil Hominid Sites of Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai and Environs World Heritage Site (South Africa) --- Sterkfontein, Swartkrans, Kromdraai and Environs World Heritage Site (South Africa) --- Antiquities. --- History. --- Antiquities

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Community and participation have become central concepts in the nomination processes surrounding heritage, intersecting time and again with questions of territory. In this volume, anthropologists and legal scholars from France, Germany, Italy and the USA take up questions arising from these intertwined concerns from diverse perspectives: How and by whom were these concepts interpreted and re-interpreted, and what effects did they bring forth in their implementation? What impact was wielded by these terms, and what kinds of discursive formations did they bring forth? How do actors from local to national levels interpret these new components of the heritage regime, and how do actors within heritage-granting national and international bodies work it into their cultural and political agency? What is the role of experts and expertise, and when is scholarly knowledge expertise and when is it partisan? How do bureaucratic institutions translate the imperative of participation into concrete practices? Case studies from within and without the UNESCO matrix combine with essays probing larger concerns generated by the valuation and valorization of culture.

Community development. --- Communities of practice. --- Practice, Communities of --- Social groups --- Organizational learning --- Community development --- Regional development --- Economic assistance, Domestic --- Social planning --- Citizen participation --- Government policy --- cultural property --- heritage --- community --- Intangible cultural heritage --- UNESCO --- World Heritage Site

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"While considerable research and on-ground project work focuses on the interface between Indigenous/local people and nature conservation in the Asia-Pacific region, the interface between these people and cultural heritage conservation has not received the same attention. 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. It will address the extent to which management regimes have variously allowed, facilitated or obstructed continuing cultural engagement with heritage places and landscapes, and discuss the problems agencies experience with protection and management of cultural heritage places"--

Cultural property --- Historic preservation --- Protection --- Pacific Area --- Antiquities. --- Preservation, Historic --- Preservationism (Historic preservation) --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Asia-Pacific Region --- Asian-Pacific Region --- Asian and Pacific Council countries --- Pacific Ocean Region --- Pacific Region --- Pacific Rim --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- cultural property--protection--pacific area --- historic preservation--pacific area --- Bikini Atoll --- Borobudur --- Fataluku language --- Terra Australis --- World Heritage Site

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What happens when UNESCO heritage conventions are ratified by a state? How do UNESCO’s global efforts interact with preexisting local, regional and state efforts to conserve or promote culture? What new institutions emerge to address the mandate? The contributors to this volume focus on the work of translation and interpretation that ensues once heritage conventions are ratified and implemented. With seventeen case studies from Europe, Africa, the Caribbean and China, the volume provides comparative evidence for the divergent heritage regimes generated in states that differ in history and political organization. The cases illustrate how UNESCO’s aspiration to honor and celebrate cultural diversity diversifies itself. The very effort to adopt a global heritage regime forces myriad adaptations to particular state and interstate modalities of building and managing heritage.

Cultural property --- Cultural policy --- Protection --- Unesco --- Intellectual life --- State encouragement of science, literature, and art --- Culture --- Popular culture --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Government policy --- Organisation des Nations Unies pour l'éducation, la science et la culture --- ユネスコ --- 国際連合教育科学文化機関 --- Organización de las Naciones Unidas para la educación, la ciencia y la cultura --- United Nations educational, scientific and cultural organization --- Verenigde Naties. Organisatie voor onderwijs, wetenschap en cultuur --- France --- Intangible cultural heritage --- UNESCO --- World Heritage Site