Heritage Keywords

“A diverse array of approaches to the central concepts and issues in the field of heritage, which, taken together, offers compelling and valuable commentary.” —Lena Mortensen, University of Toronto "An important contribution to this newly emerging interdisciplinary field.” —Rodney Harrison, University College London "[R]elevant and valuable for anthropology as a discipline. . . . the volume is exemplary in its commitment to language as a mode of thought and to rhetoric as a mode of language. Future studies of disciplinary vocabularies and key words—of which there will surely be many—should follow the example here and make serious note of the rhetorical effects of language in academia and national politics and of how, as Rorty taught, changes of thought and practice are often only possible through and as changes in speech." —Anthropology Review Database"Heritage Keywords will prove useful for students grappling with anthropological heritage studies and should encourage even more productive investigations of the continuing expanding heritage phenomenon." —Anthropology Book Forum "[T]he first of its kind to not only produce a useful reference of key concepts in the field, but to induce the readers to question and rethink them. Heritage Keywords is a welcomed text that clearly aims to discuss and not define, deconstruct rather than describe. . . . This volume, it is hoped, will motivate scholars and practitioners inside and outside the museum and heritage spheres to think critically and reflexively about the words they use, the power enacted through such rhetoric, and the situated nature of their expertise." —Museum Anthropology Review  "A successful edited volume that shoulders aside calls for a (merely) discursive turn in heritage studies by demonstrating the capabilities of rhetoric’s inbuilt attention to dynamism and agency." —JCA Book Reviews