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Can less be more? Heritage in the age of terrorism

Holtorf, Cornelius·2006·Public Archaeology
DOI 10.1179/pua.2006.5.2.101
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Western civilization does not have a particularly good track record of saving cultural heritage from destruction, but in recent centuries it has surrounded itself with a rather firm ideology of conservation and preservation. This paper is meant as a caution against a fundamentalist ideology of heritage-preservationism. It discusses some inherent contradictions in how heritage is treated in the modern world, some mutually exclusive ways of consuming heritage involving both destruction and preservation, and some double standards regarding the appreciation of drastic destruction in the past and the condemnation of vandalism and iconoclasm in the present. It is argued that the current appeal of preservation is more a product of history than the appeal of history could be said to be a product of preservation. Destruction and loss are not the opposite of heritage but part of its very substance. It is not the acts of vandals and iconoclasts that are challenging sustainable notions of heritage, but the inability of both academic and political observers to understand and theorize what heritage does, and what is done to it, within the different realities that together make up our one world.

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  • The attitudes that advocate for the preservation of all extant material remains of dictatorship without further interpretation show that a preservationist ethos is not inherently good, liberal or progressive.

    “The attitudes that advocate for the preservation of all the extant material remains of dictatorship without further interpretation show that a preservationist ethos is not inherently good, liberal or progressive (Holtorf, 2006).”

    From Making things public: Archaeologies of the Spanish Civil War (2007) · cites this paper as Holtorf, 2006

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Authors
Holtorf, C.
Venue
Public Archaeology
Publisher
Informa UK Limited
Published
2006-01
Volume
5
Issue
2
Pages
101-109
ISSN
  • 1465-5187
  • 1753-5530
DOI
10.1179/pua.2006.5.2.101
Cited by
76
References
0
Language
en

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