Destruction and Conservation of Cultural Property

Robert Layton is Professor of Anthropology at the University of Durham. Peter G. Stone is Chief Executive of the World Archaeological Congress and Lecturer in Heritage Studies at the University of Newcastle. Julian Thomas is Chair of Archaeology at the University of Manchester.

• 1 Introduction: the destruction and conservation of cultural property 2 The uneasy bedfellows: universality and cultural heritage 3 Should developing countries restore and conserve? 4 The end of history? Archaeology and the politics of identity in a globalized world 5 Return to Alexandria: conflict and contradiction in discourses of origins and heritage revivalism 6 Renovating Hue (Vietnam): authenticating destruction, reconstructing authenticity 7 Destruction and conservation of cultural property in Brazil: academic and practical challenges 8 From museum to mantelpiece: the antiquities trade in the United Kingdom 9 A note on the excavations at Ayodhya with reference to the Mandir-Masjid issue 10 The Ayodhya Issue 11 Ayodhya, the print media and communalism 12 The protection of Croatia's cultural heritage during war 1991-95 13 Challenges and dilemmas facing the reconstruction of war-damaged cultural heritage: the case study of Pocitelj, Bosnia-Herzegovina 14 Imminent or eminent domain? The contest over Thessaloniki’s Rotonda 15 The politics of the past: Emain Macha (Navan), Northern Ireland 16 Making news out of archaeological sites: the experience at Ijaye Orile, Nigeria 17 The changing use of worship in Roman and medieval Cordoba 18 The Adriatic Islands Project: monument destruction and protection in the Central Dalmatian Islands 19 'Pios vandals': restoration or destruction in Sri Lanka? 20 Destruction or conservation? Some aspects of monument policy in British India (1899-1905) 21 Use, value and significance in heritage management 22 Is the past a non-renewable resource? 23 Cape Town's District Six and archaeology of memory