Overview

Heritage as Community Research explores the nature ofcontemporary heritage research involving university and community partners. Itputs forward a new view of heritage as a process of research and involvementwith the past, undertaken with or by communities for whom it is relevant.Rather than just reflecting on existing discourses about heritage, this bookderives from community-based research into heritage in which histories areexplored through new modes of production: crossing disciplines and sustainingpartnerships. The book shows that the process of research itself can be anempowering force by which communities stake a claim in the places they live.

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This work is a needed stimulus for collaborative research between academics and communities and for critical interdisciplinary heritage studies. Celeste Ray, Sewanee: The University of the South

"""This work is a needed stimulus for collaborative research between academics and communities and for critical interdisciplinary heritage studies."" Celeste Ray, Sewanee: The University of the South"

""This work is a needed stimulus for collaborative research between academics and communities and for critical interdisciplinary heritage studies."" Celeste Ray, Sewanee: The University of the South

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Jo Vergunst is a Lecturer in the Department of Anthropology at the University of Aberdeen. Helen Graham is a Research Fellow in Tangible and Intangible Heritage and Director of the Centre for Critical Studies in Museums, Galleries and Heritage at the university of Leeds.

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