Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management

Cultural Landscapes of South Asia: Studies in Heritage Conservation and Management
ISBN-10
1317365933
ISBN-13
9781317365938
Category
Architecture
Pages
296
Language
English
Published
2016-10-14
Publisher
Taylor & Francis
Authors
Kapila D. Silva, Amita Sinha

Description

The pluralism of South Asia belies any singular reading of its heritage. In spite of this diversity, its cultural traditions retain certain attributes that are at their core South Asian—in their capacity to self‐organize, enact and reinvent cultural memories, and in their ability to retain an intimate connection with nature and landscape. This volume focuses on the notion of cultural landscape as a medium integrating multiple forms of heritage and points to a new paradigm for conservation practices in the South Asian context. Even though the construct of cultural landscape has been accepted as a category of heritage, its potent use in heritage management in general and within the South Asian context in particular has not been widely studied. The volume challenges the prevalent views of heritage management in South Asia that are entrenched in colonial legacies and contemporary global policy frameworks.

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