Contents

List of illustrations

Notes on contributors

Acknowledgements

1  Heritage in Asia: converging forces, conflicting values

Tim Winter and Patrick Daly

PART I

Challenging conservation: the view From Asia

2  ‘Same same but different?’: a roundtable discussion on the philosophies, methodologies, and practicalities of conserving cultural heritage in Asia

Kecia L. Fong, Tim Winter, Hae Un Rii, Pinraj Khanjanusthiti and Aparna Tandon

3  The unbearable impermanence of things: reflections on Buddhism, cultural memory and heritage conservation

Maurizio Peleggi

4  From multi-religious sites to mono-religious monuments in South Asia: the colonial legacy of heritage management

Himanshu Prabha Ray

5  Exotification, conservation and the history of natural heritage in Indonesia

Timothy P. Barnard

6  Beyond band-aids: the need for specialised materials conservation expertise in Asia

Jeffrey W. Cody and Kecia L. Fong

PART II

The politics and governance of heritage

7  States, governance and the politics of culture: World Heritage in Asia

William Logan

8  ‘Selecting the refined and discarding the dross’: the post-1990 Chinese leadership’s attitude towards cultural tradition

Jiawen Ai

9  Legislating to safeguard Asia’s intangible cultural heritage

Georgina Lloyd

10  Intangible cultural heritage and peace building in Indonesia and East Timor

Birgit Bräuchler

11  The revitalisation of Khmer ethnic identity in Thailand: empowerment or confinement?

Alexandra Denes

12  A political-ecological heritage of resource contest and conflict

Michael R. Dove

PART III

Rethinking relationships, remembrance and loss

13  Modernity, socialism and heritage in Asia

Colin Long

14  War and revolution as national heritage: ‘Red Tourism’ in China

Horng-luen Wang

15  The politics of loss and nostalgia in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR)

David Berliner

16  Rethinking relationships: world heritage, communities and tourism

Robyn Bushell and Russell Staiff

17  Heritage challenges in Asian urban cultural landscape settings

Ken Taylor

PART IV

Negotiating modernity and globalisation

18  Heritage and modernity in India

Jyoti Hosagrahar

19  Anti-superstition: campaigns against popular religion and its heritage in Asia

Denis Byrne

20  Globalisation and sacred adivasi landscapes in Eastern India

Vinita Damodaran

21  Shifting pilgrim-trails and temple-towns in India

Kiran A. Shinde

22  Asian orientalism: perceptions of Buddhist heritage in Japan

Aki Toyoyama

23  Fighting modernity: traditional Chinese martial arts and the transmission of intangible cultural heritage

Patrick Daly

Index