World Heritage on the Ground

Christoph Brumann is Head of Research Group at the Max Planck Institute for Social Anthropology in Halle, Germany, and Honorary Professor of Anthropology at Martin Luther University Halle-Wittenberg.David Berliner is Professor of Anthropology at the Universite libre de Bruxelles, Belgium.

• List of IllustrationsIntroduction: UNESCO World Heritage - Grounded?Christoph Brumann and David BerlinerPART I: CITIESChapter 1. Affects and Senses in a World Heritage Site: People-House Relations in the Medina of FezManon IstasseChapter 2. 'UNESCO is What?' World Heritage, Militant Islam and the Search for a Common Humanity in MaliCharlotte JoyChapter 3. Heritage-making in Lijiang: Governance, Reconstruction and Local Naxi LifeYujie ZhuChapter 4. Multiple Nostalgias: The Fabric of Heritage in Luang Prabang (Lao PDR)David BerlinerPART II: ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITESChapter 5. Thinking Globally and Acting Locally in the Angkor World Heritage SiteKeiko MiuraChapter 6. One List, a World of Difference? The Dynamics of Global Heritage at Two Neighbouring PropertiesNoel B. SalazarChapter 7. Civilization and the Transformation of Xiaotun Village at Yin Xu Archaeological Site, ChinaShu-Li WangChapter 8. The Business of Wonder: Public Meets Private at the World Heritage Site of Chichen ItzaLisa BregliaPART III: CULTURAL LANDSCAPESChapter 9. Decolonizing the Site: The Problems and Pragmatics of World Heritage in Italy, Libya and TanzaniaJasper ChalcraftChapter 10. The Values of Exchange and the Issue of Control: Living with (World) Heritage in Osogbo, NigeriaPeter ProbstChapter 11. Mapungubwe Cultural Landscape: Extractive Economies and Endangerment on South Africa's BordersLynn MeskellCODAConclusion: Imagining the Ground from Afar: Why the Sites are so Remote in World Heritage Committee SessionsChristoph Brumann

"...this excellent book provides thoughtful critiques of UNESCO, state organizations, developers, and the tourist bureaus that translate and reconfigure UNESCO policies in glocalizing ways. Several chapters interrogate the category of `World Heritage' and at times seek to unsettle some of the taken-for-granted Euro-North American `humanist' and `enlightenment' ideologies that arguably underpin the UNESCO project. Whilst research into the distances between the discourses of World Heritage, the experiences of local stakeholders, and `local' subjects is not new, this volume offers an original take on the extant literature through its very intimate portrayals of local subjects." Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute (JRAI)