No. 12 (2022): Patrimonio cultural: miradas sobre su conformación
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Decoding heritage

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  • Nonofho Mathibidi Ndobochani

Published 2023-09-30

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  • Heritage, archaeology, heritage consumption, heritage presentation, appropriated heritage.

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Decoding heritage. (2023). Antropología. Revista Interdisciplinaria Del INAH, 12, 137-147. https://revistas.inah.gob.mx/index.php/antropologia/article/view/19878

Abstract

The advancement of heritage into a culmination of thought processes and methodological approaches that we have to date speaks volumes. To a larger extent, the development of heritage has been influenced by the highly appropriated archaeological discipline, which had a tendency of considering the past as an ‘alien’ as opposed to an ‘inheritance’. It is therefore probably orderly by now that we have varying philosophies on what must be valued as heritage. We should debate and write freely on whether we are balanced (do we all have a voice) on our portrayal of heritage. The last few decades have seen pragmatic discussions on the nature of heritage as a geographically and conceptually global phenomenon. Heritage has therefore been defined differently and continually re-defined, structured and re-structured, conceptualized and re-conceptualized. This resulted in an array of notions that influence heritage research, preservation, consumption and presentation.

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