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Heritage Management, Interpretation, Identity PETER HOWARD continuum 1 What Is Heritage? eta ak cg ei cto nt fH doe and concern everyone, Much oft divides poor bu tis ook erm ce common areas of study Deveen i hes RPT te 0 ina oro hartge tends to arly ony 0 th Doe nn eer esen more meaning wnmancoed erie erage bt ters I ops ive. Tents are made bot of Pu Se et only the former ae the iit where profane reser: and interpreters become ncoled ie want to save, fom clean ‘te evening when I write this snot particulary usual The main UK pe roe eit morta suburban housing estate fm Northern ireland, whee Pati or tand by thew barricades to prevent a group of people marsha ae te ain road, with banners fing and drums playing. and wearing pow ashes They claim that this stheir heritage that they are celebrating eat nich took place 300 years ago, and that itis the right of every fre Tope to walk where they wish on public rights of way. The residents of Cawaghy Road, ofa different religious persuasion and owing allegiance to & Ghiferent identity, claim that because they have indeed tid their Hlentity insulted fequently inte pasts no good reason fori to happen in the foture IWithad not been Northern Irland it might have been Kosovo or Chechnya ot ths Basa tertories or Corsica or Notting Hil, Bverywhere heritage matters, ‘entities ate being fought over; traditions are being insulted. Heritage is of ‘concern to all people who believe in something, or who simply believe they are different. ‘On the same evening there is an hour of television, with an academic ‘presenter, in which the Wars of the Roses Society is reenacting the Battle 0 “his book proposes todo preci that ~ to examine the heterogeneous colt of ngs iat people want to sve and set outa eres oF eas By cass canbe usfuy studied, more eflcvely managed and interpreted ‘is book docs not concern self much with techniques, Readers seeing he ten method of restoring watercolour or how to release coped animals the wr wl be disappointed. though hes may eed basking themselves i they should wish fo do these things, General he Book does nat ak HOw ‘The main questions tasks are:"What ie heritage?” "Who wants os “rom®" "Who te expected to pay for Ie” "Where is the best place fOr Tentage? "Which i the proper period to which this Werte ‘eunned? The one techni! question which Is asked i How i hi tt interpreted and presented and to whom? The techniques of ‘re bet left to experts from within the discipline traditionally the objec, but Une other questions are common to all and by ind the sae ne cal icant someone ea. Te site Denes mene eo eves ch ea wor athe mn Ay sed together, wah, the UK, the Pe rtent of Naima Hen and eet pareve maybe oer kinds of bei mma mtb ae ey rc ake wa they read ete me Sue thy ae ke wo te ofl or sweooh abu pean al ose eee Hwee ring thy en pss 0 Ey otoagh o eo ile nan vale sae sha, nol tes wo be fan: at iti bree cn ‘rms for heritage are so dominant that this book far the Teak resonal andthe tarsidered as serious heritage, 2nd c concerned with thee two br i pa tcnaing Ww esr 2 eager Boone, for eral se aro ow rsa formed nd what 1 es fe fe warn ben afer. Te sume te of ter a ts nrg ote of he Tol eve, Dest great de ‘Ste about ft Mntity there are surprisingly fe tues which tke his ease eon of balding mateal and veraclr acter, scent ta ed by Common roa Presi od enki oe eps fhe to wom hs book i eimai aimed, ar rnahiy sage that thy are ely to be employed conering and ogc my erage. Tat maybe the ese bu thy lo need 0 ere tala eve eingeHem has another ef personal meanings {2 dncon and a cer stor ofl, managed beige aes wh ero! tage conting a here which they reg a¢ much more ‘port Mh lc ofan acadenic cin that concerns sel with eigen the dersoment of some concepts at ow some understanding on a complex fet shoul ot be academe ao be dvrced fom realty. There ae 2 tune of alarguedboks tat ae al he ek questions hat concer the pustedar aspect of cate? Hertage can ineed be perched as a dangerous concep Hs eqeny mans, ec sist ets and Jcvardloking Quite fen tsa to easy ose the eit fr henge as 2 epic bythe ich o acu th propery ofthe poor. Ahouth oa War is weRITAC tlie or ein iy south dy psi fo tet developed some idea of how to do it better. . a wean be ca eolang as age canbe ad te modu oun pe or Wen, nos or exe seen th Fe were in August 1485 Henry Tar dete Richard the throne of Engnd rat last men wh owed alee tothe one eaed men who owed alegance othe ether. On theft le noone gets hur or at leat nt seid, ad ey all cet have an tof fon though wheter aevthing ul the sta sel be dacovered is doula Peape poe are embarassed ab having fon 0 they want to legitimize Wir ene wth 9 serious ‘pose can tur to the focal ewig paper to se eto 3 na "ck ral eld inthe rounds os nares (open othe pl ofa ‘epot of 3 lady areted and charged with defacing the Cenctaph Ia vn as ben declared a National Nature Reserve and tat sucesso ‘ation fr tery fads as embed to be beter mana. Tere ot >etage about eveyone sens o want lo sive somthing In Turcy an nization has just been formed t prevent the dtintve Turi cer 's ousted in the cafés by esreso an eapucin. In Ponce, hundede of eases ae being fled besa the res kil mots ive the fscition for sving tings, ane need ot be surprzd to see ‘ee Sues or Here Management or Heritage Conservation becom ‘sr sabes in universes. Neither ds thee a shorage of hoola t ee aters For anything you might want save or colle here vil bea ‘ed text desnbing its istry and characteristics en how o vei bat Fonmiable reo seructure hen need it “his theonysfollowed by an au of heritage looking a some of themors exe, fbession in collecting and. saving things White het, defined in part by the aiviions What is heritage? ee Fag eo Besta th mean a ater te the oh Sea a retage whch may tt == pol or Tay nt Be BE ata oc exampte- Bean nited itl Indeed, the word is now Feared ins holo sae to refer our nes. The oer fare Ls Aww 'ccamstnces are accepted as her, wereai anct sen th same weg beefs Tere isa sense which Sr Mop the ea at we ol bert god thins fom he pas. cece oP sches are henge but poverty sno. But the definition see ce pound importance. Aca 8 widely assumed that Bee eE toot: enone shuld have some, People are quite capable of “tice fonsting and iowning heiage tht they would rather be Shout Te does not mes that all erage is pleasant Aveo TOocien ss Wold Henge Ste that people ve deed they do ot Gor duven ort frp Auch conser because at last Some Yeon vant wy be Equal, there wil be mary hig that cold be Ronse bt about which no one wil ere enough o ensure a they ae Mesinge hs ben dhe at amthing you want Volition sea ahr oo become ee regaled ae $e Kesifeaton ia Herge cane regarded SS aeee eae at ooo ae eae abe cs ‘to pass on to future generations. “Trina, the scholars who stay erage come trom those disciplines that sty some of the phenomena and artefacts that are commonly collected and oe yet ene, ut may come into “inion “ccumatances or benefits sng Fees the close contact with the ership to include WHAT 1 HERITAGE? 7 ‘omserved Indeed gute often these objects ist became hertae aa result of ‘sch scholarly terest However, a fous of interest on the motivation for conservation and on the wilors to conserved things. demonstrates ‘mediately the smarts between otherwise disparate objects. The museum? curator and the warden of» atonal ark have much in common, as Jo the ‘ive conservation officer and the antiques collect. ‘The above defiiton has the advantage of puting the emphasis firmly on people People collect heritage for their own benefit or for the perceived benefit of others although the nature of those Benefits is very varus. They fet passionate about some quite extraordinary things and

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