'Time out of mind'-'Mind out of time': Custom versus tradition in environmental heritage research and interpretation

International Journal of Heritage Studies

Volumn 7, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 339-354

  Olwig, Kenneth Robert ^a  

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Author keywords

Custom; Declensionist; Environmental; Heritage; Narratives; Norway; Paradise; Progress; Tradition

Indexed keywords

EID: 33645373388     PISSN: 13527258     EISSN: 14703610     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/13581650120105543     Document Type: Article

References (18)

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2. R. Williams, 'Literature and rural society' , The Listener, November 16, 1967, pp. 630-632
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6. Virgil, Eclogues and Georgics, London: Dent, 1946, pp. 69-71
7. K. Marx, Grundrisse, Harmondsworth: Penguin, 1973, pp. 110-111
8. K.R. Olwig, 'Landscape, place and the state of progress', in R.D. Sack (ed.) Progress: geographical essays, Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 2002
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10. F. Hotman, Francogallia, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1972 (orig. 1573)
11. E. Hobsbawn, 'Introduction', in T. Ranger & E. Hobsbawn (eds) The invention of tradition, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1983, pp. 1-14 (pp. 2-4)
12. M. Bloch, Feudal Society, Chicago: University of Chicago Press, 1961 (orig. 1940), p. 114
13. see also D. Lowenthal, The past is a foreign countr y, Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1985, pp. 206-210
14. D. Lowenthal, Possessed by the past. The heritage crusade and the spoils of history, New York: The Free Press, 1996
15. D. Fraser, 'Day at the beach: access still a thorny issue' , Sunday Cape Cod Times, July 4, 1999, pp. 1, 6, 7
16. Betten et al., Kulturminner i Hegra-verdier og visjoner ved vern. Feltkurs i Stjù rdal kommune, Geo 200, Trondheim, Norway: NTNU, 1999
17. In the myth of King Midas the king achieves his wish of having everything he touches turned to gold, only to discover that this means that everything he touches becomes useless and inedible. The term cultural capital is generally associated with the French sociologist Pierre Bourdieu, who argues that culture can also be used as a form of capital within given social groups. P. Bourdieu, Distinction: a social critique of the judgment of taste, London: Routledge & Kegan Paul, 1984
18. Oxford English Dictionary, Oxford: Oxford University Press, 1971, fellowship