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Cultural heritage as civilizing mission from decay to recovery Michael Falser, editor.

By: Contributor(s): Material type: TextTextSeries: Transcultural research. Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context | Transcultural research. Heidelberg studies on Asia and Europe in a global context.Publication details: Cham Springer 2015.Description: x, 355 pages illustrations (some color) 24 cmISBN:
  • 9783319136387
  • 3319136380
  • 3319136372 (print
  • 9783319136370 (print
Subject(s): DDC classification:
  • 363.69 FAL
Contents:
Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission. An Introduction Part I: Direct Neighbours and the Primitive Colonialism without Colonies: The Civilizing Missions in the Habsburg Empire German Colonialism and the Formation of African Heritage Part II: Civilizing Missions (post)colonial Between the Colonial, the Global, and the Local??Civilizing India?s Past under Different Regimes Save Borobudur! The Moral Dynamics of Heritage Formation in Indonesia across Orders and Borders, 1930s?1980s Part III: From Cultural Brokers to Enlightened Dictators Decadence and Revival in Cambodian Arts and the Role of George Groslier (1887?1945 The Civilizing Vision of an Enlightened Dictator: Norodom Sihanouk and the Cambodian Post-Independence Experiment (1953?1970 Part IV: Archaeological Pasts for Revolutionary Presents Make the Past Serve the Present: Reading Cultural Relics Excavated during the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1972 The Myth of Angkor as an Essential Component of the Khmer Rouge Utopia Part V: Making Cultural Heritage Global Representing Heritage without Territory??The Khmer Rouge at the UNESCO in Paris During the 1980s and their Civilizing Mission for Angkor Discourses and Practices between Traditions and World Heritage Making in Angkor Epilogue: Paving the Way towards Civilization: 150 Years of Saving Angkor.
Summary: This book investigates the role of cultural heritage as a constitutive dimension of different civilizing missions from the colonial era to the present. It includes case studies of the Habsburg Empire and German colonialism in Africa, Asian case studies of (post)colonial India and the Dutch East Indies/​Indonesia, China and French Indochina, and a special discussion on 20th-century Cambodia and the temples of Angkor. The themes examined range from architectural and intellectual history to historic preservation and restoration. Taken together, they offer an overview of historical processes spanning two centuries of institutional practices, wherein the concept of cultural heritage was appropriated both by political regimes and for UNESCO World Heritage agendas.
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"Proceedings of the 2nd International Workshop on Cultural Heritage and the Temples of Angkor (Chair of Global Art History, Heidelberg University, 8-10 May 2011)."

International conference proceedings.

Includes bibliographical references.

Cultural Heritage as Civilizing Mission. An Introduction Part I: Direct Neighbours and the Primitive Colonialism without Colonies: The Civilizing Missions in the Habsburg Empire German Colonialism and the Formation of African Heritage Part II: Civilizing Missions (post)colonial Between the Colonial, the Global, and the Local??Civilizing India?s Past under Different Regimes Save Borobudur! The Moral Dynamics of Heritage Formation in Indonesia across Orders and Borders, 1930s?1980s Part III: From Cultural Brokers to Enlightened Dictators Decadence and Revival in Cambodian Arts and the Role of George Groslier (1887?1945 The Civilizing Vision of an Enlightened Dictator: Norodom Sihanouk and the Cambodian Post-Independence Experiment (1953?1970 Part IV: Archaeological Pasts for Revolutionary Presents Make the Past Serve the Present: Reading Cultural Relics Excavated during the Chinese Cultural Revolution of 1972 The Myth of Angkor as an Essential Component of the Khmer Rouge Utopia Part V: Making Cultural Heritage Global Representing Heritage without Territory??The Khmer Rouge at the UNESCO in Paris During the 1980s and their Civilizing Mission for Angkor Discourses and Practices between Traditions and World Heritage Making in Angkor Epilogue: Paving the Way towards Civilization: 150 Years of Saving Angkor.

This book investigates the role of cultural heritage as a constitutive dimension of different civilizing missions from the colonial era to the present. It includes case studies of the Habsburg Empire and German colonialism in Africa, Asian case studies of (post)colonial India and the Dutch East Indies/​Indonesia, China and French Indochina, and a special discussion on 20th-century Cambodia and the temples of Angkor. The themes examined range from architectural and intellectual history to historic preservation and restoration. Taken together, they offer an overview of historical processes spanning two centuries of institutional practices, wherein the concept of cultural heritage was appropriated both by political regimes and for UNESCO World Heritage agendas.

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