Daly Patrick - Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia

Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia

Across Asia today, rapid economic and social change means the regions heritage is simultaneously under threat and undergoing a revival as never before. This volume examines heritage as a key component in the unfolding modernities of Asia, moving between analytical scales to address questions of tourism, urban planning, national or ethnic expressions of identity, conflict, memorialization, and biodiversity.

For some, heritage has become an effective means for protecting those landscapes, rituals, artefacts or traditional values endangered by rapid socio-economic change. For others, it has emerged as a valuable resource for achieving wider goals such as poverty alleviation, nation building or the cultural profiling of citizens. In certain instances however, heritage protection represents an obstacle inhibiting progress, national unification, or the shedding of unwanted memories.

The Routledge Handbook of Heritage in Asia offers an expansive account of the complexities of heritage in relation to a series of wider historical, socio-political, environmental and physical changes. The international team of contributors takes an interdisciplinary approach and present both new challenges and new directions for our understanding of contemporary Asia.

With chapters covering the entire region, this Handbook will be of interest across a wide range of disciplines including: heritage studies, Asian studies, cultural sociology, religious studies, and social policy in Asia.

Patrick Daly is a Senior Research Fellow at the Asia Research Institute, National University of Singapore.

Tim Winter is a Senior Research Fellow at the Institute for Culture and Society, University of Western Sydney, Australia.

Routledge Handbook of

Heritage in Asia

Edited by

Patrick Daly and Tim Winter

First published 2012

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Library of Congress Cataloging in Publication Data

Routledge handbook of heritage in Asia / [edited by] Patrick Daly & Tim Winter.

p. cm.

Includes bibliographical references and index.

1. Cultural property Asia. 2. Historic preservation Asia. 3. Asia Civilization. 4. Heritage tourism Asia. I. Daly, Patrick T., 1975-II. Winter, Tim, 1971

DS12.R68 2011

950 dc23

2011021865

ISBN 978-0-415-60045-3 (hbk)

ISBN 978-0-203-15600-1 (ebk)

Contents

Tim Winter and Patrick Daly

Kecia L. Fong, Tim Winter, Hae Un Rii, Pinraj Khanjanusthiti and Aparna Tandon

Maurizio Peleggi

Himanshu Prabha Ray

Timothy P. Barnard

Jeffrey W. Cody and Kecia L. Fong

William Logan

Jiawen Ai

Georgina Lloyd

Birgit Bruchler

Alexandra Denes

Michael R. Dove

Colin Long

Horng-luen Wang

David Berliner

Robyn Bushell and Russell Staiff

Ken Taylor

Jyoti Hosagrahar

Denis Byrne

Vinita Damodaran

Kiran A. Shinde

Aki Toyoyama

Patrick Daly

Illustrations

Table

Figures

Notes on Contributors

Jiawen Ai is a Ph.D. candidate in Politics at the University of Melbourne. She has taught at the University of Melbourne, Deakin University and La Trobe University. She is the author of The Refunctioning of Confucianism: Mainland Chinese Intellectual Response toward Confucianism since the 1980s (Issues & Studies, 44, 2972), and Two Sides of One Coin: the Partys Attitude towards Confucianism in Contemporary China (Journal of Contemporary China, 18, 689701).

Timothy P. Barnard is Associate Professor in the Department of History at the National University of Singapore. His research focuses on the environmental and cultural history of Indonesia and Malaysia. He has published extensively on state formation in eighteenth-century Sumatra, and is currently working on a monograph focusing on the history of the Komodo dragon.

David Berliner is Associate Professor in Anthropology at the Universit Libre de Bruxelles, Belgium as well as co-editor of Social Anthropology/Anthropologie Sociale. He has published various articles about transmission and memory, heritage-making, religion, art and gender. He is engaged in ethnographic research in Laos looking at the politics of heritage and nostalgia in Luang Prabang.

Birgit Bruchler teaches at the Institute for Social and Cultural Anthropology, Goethe University, Frankfurt, Germany. Her main research interests are media and cyberanthropology, conflict and peace studies, and the revival of tradition. She is author of Cyberidentities at War (2005), editor of Reconciling Indonesia(2009), and co-editor of Theorising Media and Practice(2010). Her current research is on the cultural dimension of reconciliation in Indonesia.

Robyn Bushell is in the Institute for Culture and Society and Associate Professor in the School of Social Sciences at the University of Western Sydney. Her research interests revolve around values-based heritage management and visitation. She works closely with a range of national and international bodies including UNESCO World Heritage Centre, IUCN and UN-World Tourism Organisation, establishing policies and planning frameworks for development strategies involving tourism in developed and developing countries.

Denis Byrne leads the research program in cultural heritage at the Office of Environment and Heritage (NSW) in Sydney. He is also Adjunct Professor at the TransForming Cultures Centre, University of Technology, Sydney. His interests include the materiality of popular religion, the everyday engagement of people in Asia and Australia with their material past, and fictocritical archaeological writing, the latter resulting in his 2007 book, Surface Collection.

Jeffrey W. Cody has been a Senior Project Specialist in the Education Department at the Getty Conservation Institute since 2004, when he began coordinating a series of ongoing educational and training activities for Southeast Asian conservation professionals. From 1995 to 2004 he taught architectural history at the Chinese University of Hong Kong. He is the author of Building in China (2001) and Exporting American Architecture, 18702000 (2003); and the co-editor of Chinese Architecture and the Beaux-Arts