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Cultural heritage is material – tangible and intangible – that signifies a culture’s history or legacy. It has become a venue for contestation, ranging in scale from protesting to violently claimed and destroyed. But who defines what is to be preserved and what is to be erased? As cultural heritage becomes increasingly significant across the world, the number of issues for critical analysis and, hopefully, mediation, arise. The issue stems from various groups: religious, ethnic, national, political, and others come together to claim, appropriate, use, exclude, or erase markers and manifestations of their own and others’ cultural heritage as a means for asserting, defending, or denying critical claims to power, land, and legitimacy. Can cultural heritage be well managed and promoted while at the same time kept within parameters so as to diminish contestation? The cases herein rage from Greece, Spain, Egypt, the UK, Syria, Zimbabwe, Italy, the Balkans, Bénin, and Central America.

Archaeology. --- Archaeology --Political aspects. --- Cultural policy. --- Cultural property. --- Historic preservation. --- Humanities. --- Nationalism. --- Social sciences. --- Cultural property --- Historic preservation --- Cultural policy --- Archaeology --- Nationalism --- History & Archaeology --- Political aspects --- Religion. --- Consciousness, National --- Identity, National --- National consciousness --- National identity --- Religion, Primitive --- Cultural heritage --- Cultural patrimony --- Cultural resources --- Heritage property --- National heritage --- National patrimony --- National treasure --- Patrimony, Cultural --- Treasure, National --- Cultural heritage. --- Social Sciences. --- Cultural Heritage. --- International relations --- Patriotism --- Political science --- Autonomy and independence movements --- Internationalism --- Political messianism --- Atheism --- God --- Irreligion --- Religions --- Theology --- Property --- World Heritage areas --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities

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Ever since its scientific discovery, the great Nasca site of Cahuachi on the south coast of the Central Andes has captured the attention of archaeologists, art historians, and the general public. Until Helaine Silverman's fieldwork, however, ancient Nasca culture was seen as an archaeological construct devoid of societal context. Silverman's long-term, multistage research as published in this volume reconstructs Nasca society and contextualizes the traces of this brilliant civilization (ca. 200 B.C.-A.D. 600).Silverman shows that Cahuachi was much larger and more complex than port

Nazca culture. --- Nasca culture --- Indians of South America --- Antiquities --- Nazca (Peru) --- Cahuachi Site (Peru) --- Peru --- Nasca (Peru) --- Antiquities. --- Culture de Nazca --- Nazca (Pérou) --- Cahuachi (Pérou : Site archéologique) --- Antiquités

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Indians of South America --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Antiquities. --- History. --- Politics and government. --- Antiquités --- Histoire --- Politique et gouvernement --- Andes Region --- Andes --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Antiquités --- Andes region --- Antiquities --- History --- Politics and government --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnology --- Acuerdo de Cartagena countries --- Andean countries --- Andean region

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Handbook of South American Archaeology Edited by Helaine Silverman University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Urbana, IL, USA and William H. Isbell State University of New York, Binghamton, NY, USA The Handbook of South American Archaeology has been created as a major reference work for archaeologists working in South America, professors and their upper-division undergraduate and graduate students in South American archaeology courses including areal courses (Central Andes, North Andes, tropical lowlands), archaeologists working elsewhere in the world who want to learn about South American prehistory in a single volume. The contributions of this seminal handbook have been commissioned from leading local and global authorities on South America. Authors present the dynamic evolutionary processes of the ancient societies and principal geographical regions of the continent and consider issues such as environmental setting and ecological adaptations, social equality/inequality, identity formation, long-distance/intercultural interaction, religious systems and their material manifestations, ideological orientations, and political and economic organization as these developed over time. The volume is organized thematically to promote and facilitate geographical comparisons, notably between the Andes and greater Amazonia. The bibliography section of each chapter is a valuable research tool in itself for readers wishing to delve deeper into the particular topics under consideration. Of particular merit and originality is the final section dealing with the ethics and practice of archaeology in South America today with each contribution written by a local scholar. This edited work presents long-term research results while simultaneously highlighting the most exciting new research and greatest archaeological problems recently resolved or still awaiting solution. Chapters are written in accessible language and each contribution includes maps and many other figures and photographs to illustrate the text. Handbook of South American Archaeology belongs on the bookshelf of every archaeologists working or living in South American but also will be of interest to those who study larger anthropological issues - such as cultural adaptation and state formation - in the prehistoric and historic periods.

Indians of South America --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquities. --- Social life and customs. --- Antiquités --- South America --- Amérique du Sud --- Civilization. --- Civilisation --- Archaeology --South America --History. --- Indians of South America --Antiquities. --- Indians of South America --Social life and customs. --- South America --Antiquities. --- South America --Civilization. --- Archaeology --- Regions & Countries - Americas --- History & Archaeology --- Latin America --- Antiquities --- Social life and customs --- History --- History. --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités --- Amérique du Sud --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVSOCIA SPRINGER-B --- Archeology --- Amusements --- Customs --- Social sciences. --- Anthropology. --- Archaeology. --- Social Sciences. --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- Human beings --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences

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This book is intended to continue the dynamic, current problem-oriented approach to the field of Andean Archaeology that started with Andean Archaeology I and Andean Archaeology II. In this volume, the strong cultural differences between northern and southern regions of the Central Andes are examined and the conditions under which these differences evolved are explored. Andean Archaeology III combines up-to-date research, diverse theoretical platforms, and far-reaching interpretations.

Indians of South America. --- EPUB-LIV-FT LIVSOCIA SPRINGER-B --- Acuerdo de Cartagena countries --- Andean countries --- Social sciences. --- History. --- Anthropology. --- Archaeology. --- Social Sciences. --- History, general. --- Andes Region --- Antiquities. --- Indians of South America --- Excavations (Archaeology) --- Politics and government. --- Andean region --- Archaeological digs --- Archaeological excavations --- Digs (Archaeology) --- Excavation sites (Archaeology) --- Ruins --- Sites, Excavation (Archaeology) --- Archaeology --- American aborigines --- American Indians --- Indigenous peoples --- Ethnology --- Indiens d'Amérique --- Fouilles (Archéologie) --- Antiquités --- Histoire --- Politique et gouvernement --- Andes --- Human beings --- Archeology --- Anthropology --- Auxiliary sciences of history --- History --- Antiquities --- Annals --- Politics and government --- Primitive societies --- Social sciences