Smith, Laura Jane

Uses of Heritage

List of figures x List of tables xi Acknowledgements xiii Introduction 1(8) PART I The idea of heritage 9(76) 1 The discourse of heritage 11(33) There is no such thing as 'heritage' 13(3) When was heritage? 16(13) The authorized heritage discourse and its use 29(6) Subaltern and dissenting heritage discourses 35(7) Conclusion 42(2) 2 Heritage as a cultural process 44(41) Heritage as experience 45(3) Heritage as identity 48(5) The intangibility of heritage 53(4) Memory and remembering 57(9) Heritage as performance 66(8) Place 74(6) Dissonance 80(2) Conclusion 82(3) PART II Authorized heritage 85(108) 3 Authorizing institutions of heritage 87(28) Venice Charter 88(7) World Heritage Convention 95(7) Burra Charter 102(4) Intangible heritage 106(7) Conclusion 113(2) 4 The 'manored' past: The banality of grandiloquence 115(47) The country house as authorized heritage 117(12) Knowing your place: Performing identities at the country house 129(29) Conclusion 158(4) 5 Fellas, fossils and country: The Riversleigh landscape 162(31) Riversleigh World Heritage Site 163(5) The Australian landscape as authorized cultural heritage 168(5) The Riversleigh sense of place 173(18) Conclusion 191(2) PART III Responses to authorized heritage 193(106) 6 Labour heritage: Performing and remembering 195(42) Museums and heritage 197(10) 'Better rememberings from here': Remembering and the negotiation of social meaning and identity 207(27) Conclusion 234(3) 7 The slate wiped clean? Heritage, memory and landscape in Castleford, West Yorkshire, England 237(39) History and place 240(7) 'But Miss, what's the black lump?' Memory and heritage in Castleford 247(18) Performance, remembering and commemoration: Heritage as community networking 265(7) Conclusion 272(4) 8 The issue is control': Indigenous politics and the discourse of heritage 276(23) The history of Indigenous critique or why the control of heritage matters 277(6) Cultural differences and discursive barriers 283(4) Controlling heritage 287(10) Conclusion 297(2) Conclusion 299(10) Notes 309(3) References 312(30) Index 342