Cultural Heritage Care and Management

Theory and Practice

Edited by Cecilia Lizama Salvatore

Publication date:

23 January 2018

Length of book:

260 pages

Publisher

Rowman & Littlefield Publishers

ISBN-13: 9781442272170

No other book is available that takes into consideration the diverse components of cultural heritage and suggests how these components can best be:

organized and arranged,
cataloged and described,
exhibited,
made accessible,
and preserved and conserved by librarians, archivists, and museum curators.

Cultural Heritage Care and Management: Theory and Practice covers a vast array of components such as landscape, foodways, performance and dance, language, etc. In addition, the tools, technologies, and methodologies for organizing and arranging, cataloging and describing, exhibiting, providing access, and preserving and conserving these components are also covered.

In this book:

Diverse, indigenous, and global perspectives of cultural heritage are described
Laws and cultural rules and norms for the care and management of cultural heritage resources and components are discussed
Tools and methodologies for the organization, access, and preservation of cultural heritage are described.
Theories and concepts related to digital heritage are discussed.

Part I: Cultural Heritage Management: Establishing Background

Cultural Heritage Components

Cecilia L. Salvatore and John T. Lizama

Beyond Stewardship and Consultation: Use, Care, and Protection of Indigenous Cultural Heritage

Loriene Roy and Ciaran Trace

Ephemerality and Permanence: Situating Performance as Intangible Cultural Heritage

Brian Diettrich

Cultural Heritage and Public Folklore: Tales of Tradition

Gregory Hansen

Legal Approaches to the Protection of Cultural Heritage

Patty Gerstenblith

Part II: Cultural Heritage Management in Traditional Cultures

Roman Textiles and Heritage in Syria

Tasha Vorderstrasse

Chamorro Language Revitalization in the CNMI and Guam

Elizabeth Rechebei and Sandra Chung

The Trilogy of Cultural Heritage: Preserving Heritage in an Ethnographical Museum

Alexandru Chiselev

Preserving the Gastronomical Heritage in a Multiethnic Region: Tulcea County, Dobruja Region, Romania as a Case Study

Juliana Titov

Part III: Technology’s Role in Cultural Heritage Management Today

The Tools and Technology in Cultural Heritage Management

Cecilia Lizama Salvatore

Curating Digital Cultural Heritage Materials

Stacy Kowalczyk

Cultural Heritage, Audiovisual Archives and Digital Return: the 21^st century mandate

Diane Thram

Toward Community Engaged Archiving: Building a Digi-Rasquache Archives

Janet Ceja Alcala and Desiree Alaniz

The Power of Lists: World Heritage through its Information System

Marta Severo

Advances and Trends in Bibliographic Research: Examples of New Technological Applications for the Management of the Geo-Referenced Library Heritage.

Agata Maggio and Maurizio Lazzari

Visual Environment for Cultural Heritage (VECH)

Maria Aranzazu Respaldiza and Monica Wachowicz

Architecture, Heritage, and Tourism in Nicaragua and Morocco: Using Cataloging Tools to Strengthen Cultural Identities and Heritage

Guido Cimadomo

“Memovoice”: Approaches to a Participative Identification of (Ladin) Heritage in the Dolomites

Emanuel Valentin

Much of the recent literature on cultural heritage focuses on the governmental and international bodies that preside over heritage policy; in contrast, this volume offers something new by providing a practical guide for how library and information sciences can be used in specific heritage management practices. . . Selected chapters would be useful as a primer for undergraduates in a heritage studies class and for those researching specific geographically or thematically situated topics within heritage studies. Individual chapters contain enough historical background and author-specific definitions of key terms like intangible heritage to be assigned as stand-alone chapters in a course on cultural heritage. This edited volume brings together an array of multidisciplinary perspectives that cover a broad swath of research relating to cultural heritage management.