Description
This resource is a much-needed reinforce to the few textbooks within the field and offers a very good introduction and overview to the established principles and new thinking in cultural heritage management .
Leading experts within the field from Europe, North The us and Australia, bring together contemporary and innovative works within the field. With geographically and thematically diverse case studies, they examine the theoretical framework for heritage resource management.
Setting significant new thinking inside the framework of more established views and ideas on heritage management, this reader re-publishes texts of the past decade with an overview of earlier literature and essays that fill the gaps in between, providing students of all stages with a clear picture of new and older literature.
A helpful introduction sets out key issues and debates, and individual chapter introductions and reading lists give a background choice of key works that offer ideas for the development of thought and study.
With good coverage of major issues and solutions in Britain, the us and Australia, The Heritage Reader will appeal to students across the world around the English-speaking world, and will stand proud as a key guide to the study and practice of this major archaeological sector.