Cultural Resource Laws and Practice

By (author) Thomas F. King Owner, Thomas F. King PhD

Publication date:

13 December 2012

Length of book:

458 pages

Publisher

AltaMira Press

Dimensions:

238x161mm
6x9"

ISBN-13: 9780759121744

In this fourth edition of the CRM classic, Thomas F. King shares his expertise in dealing with laws regulating the use of cultural resources. With wry insight, he explains the various federal, state, and local laws governing the protection of resources, how they have been interpreted, how they operate in practice, and even how they are sometimes in contradiction with each other. He provides helpful advice on how to ensure regulatory compliance in dealing with archaeological sites, historic buildings, urban districts, sacred sites and objects, shipwrecks, and archives. King also offers careful guidance through the confusing array of federal, state, and tribal offices concerned with CRM. Featuring updated analysis and treatments of key topics, this new edition is a must-have for archaeologists and students, historic preservationists, tribal governments, and others working with cultural resources.

Acknowledgments
Preface to the Fourth Edition
List of Figures and Table
Chapter 1 Cultural Resource Management: Why Is It? What Is It? Who Does It?
Chapter 2 Cultural Resources in the Broadest Sense: Practice Under the National Environmental Policy Act
Chapter 3 Historic Properties as Cultural Resources: The National Register of Historic Places
Chapter 4 Managing Impacts on Historic Properties: Section 106 of the National Historic Preservation Act
Chapter 5 More About Historic Places
Chapter 6 Cultural Resources in, of, and from the Land
Chapter 7 “Intangible” and Portable Cultural Resources
Chapter 8 Comprehensive CRM?
Chapter 9 Working with CRM
Appendix 1 Acronyms, Abbreviations, and Glossary
Appendix 2 Frequently Used Terms
Appendix 3 Laws, Executive Orders, and Regulations
Appendix 4 Model Section 106 Memorandum of Agreement
Appendix 5 Model NAGPRA Plan of Action
Bibliography
Index
About the Author

Tom King has played a unique role in CRM as one of the architects of the original Section 106 regulations and the discipline’s most articulate explicator and critic. This purportedly final edition has updated regulatory detail, recent examples, and sharpened critique. This book is essential reading for those interested in historic preservation including CRM practitioners and civil servants. One hopes that the latter might actually heed King’s well-reasoned rejoinders for the critical need to reform the regulation and management of our nation’s cultural resources.