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Archaeology concerns the present as much as the past. This volume draws together critical international and interdisciplinary considerations of heritage that will be important for years to come. Chris Gosden, University of Oxford. Global Heritage constitutes an important and timely contribution to heritage studies, anthropology and archaeology. It brings together the best empirical research about heritage in different cultural environments and, through insightful and collaborative texts, sets forth the major theoretical advances in this field. David Berliner, Professor of Anthropology, Laboratoire d'Anthropologie des Mondes Contemporains, Universite Libre de Bruxelles

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Lynn Meskell is Professor of Anthropology and Director of the Archaeology Center at Stanford University. Before coming to Stanford in 2005 she was Professor of Anthropology at Columbia University. She is Honorary Professor at the University of the Witwatersrand, Johannesburg. Some of her recent books and edited collections include Cosmopolitan Archaeologies (2009) and The Nature of Culture: The New South Africa (Blackwell, 2011). Her new research focuses on the role of UNESCO in terms of heritage rights, sovereignty and international politics.

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