Fixing historic preservation: A constructive critique of "significance"

Places

Volumn 16, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 64-71

  Mason, Radall ^a  

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References (11)

1. and Joseph Tainter and John Lucas, "Epistemology of the Significance Concept," American Antiquity, vol. 48, no. 4 (1983), pp. 707-19. Both of these works have strongly informed this article
2. Paul Connerton, How Societies Remember (Cambridge; Cambridge University Press, 1989)
3. Pierre Nora, Realms of Memory: Rethinking the French Past, Lawrence Kritzman, ed., Arthur Goldhammer, trans. (New York: Columbia University Press, 1996-98, three volumes)
4. and Iwona Irwin-Zarecka, Frames of Remembrance: The Dynamics of Collective Memory (New Brunswick, NJ: Transaction Publishers, 1994)
5. Martha Demas, "Planning for Conservation and Management of Archaeological Sites," in Teutonico and Palumbo, eds., Management Planning for Archaeological Sites (Los Angeles: Getty Conservation Institute, 2002)
6. and Sharon Sullivan and Michael Pearson, Looking After Heritage Places (Melbourne: Melbourne University Press, 1995)
7. Howard L. Green, "The Social Construction of Historical Significance," in Tomlan, ed., Preservation of What, For Whom?
8. Place Matters' web site is www.placematters.net
9. Peter Novick's That Noble Dream (New York: Cambridge University Press, 1988), on the notion of objectivity in the historical profession, provides an excellent base for critique of preservation
10. For a summary, see Randall Mason and Erica Avrami, "Heritage Values and Challenges of Conservation Planning," in Teuronico and Palumbo, eds., Management Planning for Archaeological Sites
11. There is little agreement on what constitutes a universal typology of heritage values. Many different schemes have been proposed, each with its strengths and weaknesses. See Avrami, Mason, and de la Torre, eds., Values and Heritage Conservation