Research into the ways in which the past is constructed and consumed in the present is now reaching a mature stage. This maturity derives from the general acceptance that heritage as a social and cultural construct is closely connected to the making and maintaining of identity at all spatial scales. This unique book contributes to the developing discourse by focusing on 'heritage from below' in a field where the literature on the relationship between heritage and identity has, rightly, been focused on national identity. Never before have the contemporary manifestations and the theoretical structuring framework of the idea of heritage from below been discussed in the depth offered by this book. The authors first establish the concept and then engage with the actual practice and practitioners of heritage from below in the UK, Europe, Australia and North America.
Introduction: Heritage from Below, Iain J. M.Robertson; Chapter 1 Archaeological Knowledge, Animist Knowledge and Appropriation of the Ancient Dead, PiotrBienkowski; Chapter 2 Rhetoric, Place and Performance: Students and the Heritage of the Scottish Universities, 1880-1945, Catriona M.M.Macdonald; Chapter 3 Consuming Outlaws, the Common Good and Heritage from below, GrahamSeal; Chapter 4 Under Lines and Sub Verse: The Heritage Chronicled in Unofficial Poetry and Verses from Below, DaveReeves; Chapter 5 Intimate Knowledge: Defining Heritage from the Inside, ElisabethSkinner; Chapter 6 From 'Shackies' to Silver Nomads: Coastal Recreation and Coastal Heritage in Western Australia, RoyJones, H. John Selwood; Chapter 7 What's in a House? Heritage in the Making on the South-Western Coast of Norway, GunhildSetten; Chapter 8 Commemorating Nations' Workers: The Case of 'The Reesor Siding Incident', Brian S.Osborne; Chapter 9 -2010, RoyJones; Chapter 10 The History of the Transatlantic Slave Trade and Heritage from Below in Action: Guerrilla Memorialisation in the Era of Bicentennial Commemoration, AlanRice;
