What is Heritage

What is Heritage?  Inheritance  ―Heritage is what contemporary society chooses to inherit and to pass on‖ (Ashworth Tunbridge 2000, p.6) NOTE: Heritage can be personal & collective (collective memory, e.g. of the Holocaust) What is heritage? (cont.)  Heritage is history processed through mythology, ideology, nationalism, local p ...  more>>

Copy of Heritage statements

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What is the Cultural Built Heritage

HISTORY OF AGRICULTURAL HERITAGE CENTER

Recovering cultural heritage in Iraq

Recovering and preserving world cultural heritage. US Air Force Senior Master Sgt. Roberto Pineiro displays 4600year-old statue returned to the Iraq Museum (from 10 May article in the LA Times). The NSF-funded Cuneiform Digital Library Initiative and its American, European and Asian collaborators are partners in the electronic recovery and n ...  more>>

8.5 Future of the Cultural and Heritage Committee