scholarly journals Cultural Heritage Use in the Twenty-first Century: The Politics of a Sami Skeleton Reburial

2021 ◽  
Vol 19 (1) ◽  
pp. 238-243
Author(s):  
Anders Hansson
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
First Century ◽  
Twenty First Century

scholarly journals Maroon Fashion History

2020 ◽  
Vol 94 (1-2) ◽  
pp. 1-38
Author(s):  
Sally Price
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Rain Forest ◽  
French Guiana ◽  
First Century ◽  
Dynamic Aspect ◽  
Fashion History ◽  
The Past ◽  
Twenty First Century

Abstract Fashion has long been a dynamic aspect of Maroon culture in Suriname and French Guiana (Guyane). The textile arts that carry it through from one generation to the next were totally ignored by early writers, who lavished praise on the men’s art of woodcarving but said virtually nothing about the artistic gifts of women—most importantly in calabash carving (referred to by one of them as “doodling”) and clothing. This article, based on more than fifty years of ethnographic work with Maroons, focuses on textile arts and clothing fashions, running briefly through styles of the past before focusing on current directions. Today, with Maroons participating increasingly in life beyond the traditional villages of the rain forest, the women—like their mothers and grandmothers—have continued to enjoy adopting newly available materials and inventing novel techniques. In the process, they have been producing clothing that reflects both their cultural heritage of innovative artistry and their new place in the multicultural, commoditized society of the coast. The illustrations give an opening hint of the remarkable vibrancy of this aspect of Maroon life in the twenty-first century.

Italian Identity, Global Mediterranean: Tourism and Cultural Heritage in Post-Colonial Rhodes

2020 ◽  
pp. 75-100
Author(s):  
Valerie McGuire
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
National Identities ◽  
First Century ◽  
Minority Communities ◽  
Post Colonial ◽  
Italian Fascism ◽  
Italian Culture ◽  
Twenty First Century

Valerie McGuire examines how the construction of a ‘Mediterranean’ resort aesthetic on Rhodes during Italian imperial rule of the island (1912–43) endures in contemporary postcolonial legacies and today supports new local demands for greater European inclusion and post-national identities. The chapter sets these demands into the larger context of the persistence of conflictual histories about the island’s minority communities and on the concurrent bleaching of all reference to Italian Fascism or the imperialist state that led to the Italian collaboration with the expulsion and destruction of these minority communities. The chapter suggests that Rhodes survives into the twenty-first century as both an example of the selective memory of the Italian colonial past and an example of the transnational dimensions of modern Italian culture.

scholarly journals Accessorizing (with) “Gypsyness” in the Twenty-first Century

2019 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
pp. 92-114
Author(s):  
Mihaela Moscaliuc
Keyword(s):  
Social Justice ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Mexican American ◽  
First Century ◽  
Epistemic Injustice ◽  
Cultural Appropriation ◽  
Fashion Industry ◽  
Rhetorical Agency ◽  
Twenty First Century

Prefaced with a brief discussion of representation and cultural appropriation, this article examines how the fashion industry recycles and revamps hackneyed tropes that cast Roma into narratives of wanderlust, mystique, and transgression. Such tropes perpetuate epistemic injustice, compromise understandings ofRoma and their culture(s) within non-member groups, and curtail Roma designers’ rhetorical agency. I flesh out the discussion with the case of Mexican American designer Rio Uribe and his line Gypsy Sport and argue that, despite Uribe’s investment in social justice and much touted effort toward inclusiveness, he fails to acknowledge the unethical and harmful dimensions of his work. I turn to the fashion studio Romani Design (founded by Hungarian Roma designers Erika and Helena Varga) as an example of Roma initiatives that counter appropriative practices through reclaiming the heritage for self-representation and empowerment, then envision ways of intervening in the fashion industry’s co-option and misuse of Roma’s cultural heritage.

Urban Cultural Heritage: Managing and Preserving a Local Global Common in the Twenty-first Century

2017 ◽  
Vol 2 (2) ◽  
pp. 125-151 ◽  
Author(s):  
Mirosław M. Sadowski
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Urban Landscape ◽  
Rapid Development ◽  
First Century ◽  
Sustainable Urban Development ◽  
Collective Memories ◽  
Unesco Convention ◽  
Heritage Protection ◽  
The Creation ◽  
Twenty First Century

As we approach the end of the second decade of the twenty-first century—at the moment when more people live in the cities than anywhere else—there comes a time to ponder on the role and the condition of urban cultural heritage. In times of growth, urbanization and rapid development, the city may be described as a modern battlefield of cultural heritage protection, often faced with the choice between protection and conservation, or destruction and redevelopment. This article seeks to analyse the means of protection of urban cultural heritage—a common, which is local (it takes a vital part in the creation of identity) and global (it is a part of a universal heritage) at the same time—in the international law, and to look into ways of its successful management. The first part of the article looks at the concept of the urban cultural heritage, and the second part examines the two main UNESCO conventions concerning cultural heritage protection, namely, Convention Concerning the Protection of the World Cultural and Natural Heritage and Convention for the Safeguarding of the Intangible Cultural Heritage, to establish whether or not they are successful tools in protecting the urban cultural heritage. The third part focuses on analysing a new approach towards urban cultural heritage advocated by UNESCO, based on the 2011 recommendation on the Historic Urban Landscape (HUL), giving examples of its successful (Amsterdam, Ballarat, Cuenca) and unsuccessful application (Stockholm, Hong Kong, Macau). In the fourth part, the author suggests ways of effective governance of the urban cultural heritage in the twenty-first century, from the viewpoint of sustainable urban development, focusing on the role of cultural heritage in the city’s growth, and in the creation of identity and collective memories. The concluding part of the article seeks for an answer to the question of a need for a new UNESCO convention.

scholarly journals Libraries, Archives, and Museums in the Twenty-First Century: Intersecting Missions, Converging Futures?

2007 ◽  
Vol 8 (1) ◽  
pp. 13-19 ◽  
Author(s):  
Christian Dupont
Keyword(s):  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Past ◽  
The World ◽  
Common Goals ◽  
Twenty First Century

Libraries, archives, and museums are places where we learn about ourselves, the world around us, and what came before us. They inspire us to make a better future by helping us remember and understand the past. As cultural heritage institutions, libraries, archives, and museums share common goals to acquire, preserve, and make accessible artifacts and evidences of the world’s social, intellectual, artistic, even spiritual achievements. Yet to what extent do common goals imply common means? What benefits might be realized by bringing professionals from these allied fields into closer communication? Asking these and related questions was the purpose of “Libraries, . . .

Mapping the Preservation Landscape for the Twenty-First Century

2013 ◽  
Vol 42 (1) ◽  
pp. 5-16 ◽  
Author(s):  
Ross Harvey ◽  
Martha Mahard
Keyword(s):  
Information Technology ◽  
Cultural Heritage ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
First Century ◽  
The Core ◽  
Cultural Assets ◽  
Twenty First Century ◽  
Heritage Collections ◽  
Digital Or

AbstractInformation technology has had a profound effect on the preservation landscape at the beginning of the twenty-first century, blurring the traditional boundaries separating cultural heritage institutions and demanding new skills and approaches to the management of cultural assets, whether digital or analog. Concepts around which the core principles of preservation were built have been challenged and are shifting to accommodate new practices and standards. Changes in our approach to longevity, choice, quality, integrity, and access are being driven by digital technologies. A new set of principles, applicable to all materials, whether digital or not, are proposed. In the context and aims of preservation as we understand it today, these principles are a framework for the management of our cultural heritage collections.

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