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Index
Cover
Half Title
Title Page
Copyright
Contents
List of illustrations
Notes on contributors
Acknowledgements
1. Heritage in Asia: converging forces, conflicting values
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
3. The unbearable impermanence of things: reflections on Buddhism, cultural memory and heritage conservation
4. From multi-religious sites to mono-religious monuments in South Asia: the colonial legacy of heritage management
5. Exotification, conservation and the history of natural heritage in Indonesia
6. Beyond band-aids: the need for specialised materials conservation expertise in Asia
Part II: The politics and governance of heritage
7. States, governance and the politics of culture: World Heritage in Asia
8. ‘Selecting the refined and discarding the dross’: the post-1990 Chinese leadership’s attitude towards cultural tradition
9. Legislating to safeguard Asia’s intangible cultural heritage
10. Intangible cultural heritage and peace building in Indonesia and East Timor
11. The revitalisation of Khmer ethnic identity in Thailand: empowerment or confinement?
12. A political-ecological heritage of resource contest and conflict
Part III: Rethinking relationships, remembrance and loss
13. Modernity, socialism and heritage in Asia
14. War and revolution as national heritage: ‘Red Tourism’ in China
15. The politics of loss and nostalgia in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR)
16. Rethinking relationships: world heritage, communities and tourism
17. Heritage challenges in Asian urban cultural landscape settings
Part IV: Negotiating modernity and globalisation
18. Heritage and modernity in India
19. Anti-superstition: campaigns against popular religion and its heritage in Asia
20. Globalisation and sacred adivasi landscapes in Eastern India
21. Shifting pilgrim-trails and temple-towns in India
22. Asian orientalism: perceptions of Buddhist heritage in Japan
23. Fighting modernity: traditional Chinese martial arts and the transmission of intangible cultural heritage
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