The heritage crusade and the spoils of history
Información General
- Autores: David Lowenthal
- Editores: Cambridge : Cambridge University Press
- Año de publicación: 2010
- Edición: 1ª, 8ª Reimpresión
- País: Reino Unido
- Idioma: inglés
- ISBN: 978-0-521-63562-2
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Resumen
Heritage, while it often constitutes and defines the most positive aspects of culture, is a malleable body of historical text subject to interpretation and easily twisted into myth. When it is appealed to on a national or ethnic level in reactions against racial, religious, or economic oppression, the result is often highly-charged political contention or conflict. The extraordinary theme of this unique book is how the rise of a manifold, crusade-like obsession with tradition and inheritance--both physical and cultural--can lead to either good or evil. In a balanced account of the pros and cons of the rhetoric and spoils of heritage--on the one hand cultural identity and unity, on the other, potential holy war--David Lowenthal discusses the myriad uses and abuses of historical appropriation and offers a rare and accessible account of a concept at once familiar and fraught with complexity.
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