Heritage Management & Conservation Books

New and Published Books

1. Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories

   Edited by Sandra H. Dudley, Amy Jane Barnes, Jennifer Binnie, Julia Petrov, Jennifer Walklate

   Narrating Objects, Collecting Stories is a wide-ranging collection of essays exploring the stories that can be told by and about objects and those who choose to collect them. Examining objects and collecting in different historical, social and institutional contexts, an international,...

   Published May 23rd 2012 by Routledge
2. Museum Objects

   Experiencing the Properties of Things

   Edited by Sandra H. Dudley

   Series: Leicester Readers in Museum Studies

   Museum Objects provides a set of readings that together create a distinctive emphasis and perspective on the objects which lie at the heart of interpretive practice in museums, material culture studies and everyday life. This reader brings together classic and up to date texts on the nature and...

   Published May 21st 2012 by Routledge
3. Cross-disciplinary Perspectives on a Contested Buddhist Site

   Bodh Gaya Jataka

   Edited by David Geary, Matthew Sayers, Abhishek Singh Amar

   Series: Routledge South Asian Religion Series

   Bodh Gaya in the North Indian state of Bihar has long been recognized as the place where the Buddha achieved enlightenment. This book brings together the recent work of twelve scholars from a variety of disciplines - anthropology, art history, history, and religion – to highlight their...

   Published April 25th 2012 by Routledge
4. Museums, Equality and Social Justice

   Edited by Richard Sandell, Eithne Nightingale

   Series: Museum Meanings

   The last two decades have seen concerns for equality, diversity, social justice and human rights move from the margins of museum thinking and practice, to the core. The arguments – both moral and pragmatic – for engaging diverse audiences, creating the conditions for more equitable access to museum...

   Published April 22nd 2012 by Routledge
5. Politics of Memory

   Making Slavery Visible in the Public Space

   Edited by Ana Lucia Araujo

   Series: Routledge Studies in Cultural History

   The public memory of slavery and the Atlantic slave trade, which some years ago could be observed especially in North America, has slowly emerged into a transnational phenomenon now encompassing Europe, Africa, and Latin America, and even Asia – allowing the populations of African descent,...

   Published April 17th 2012 by Routledge
6. Museum Basics

   3rd Edition

   By Timothy Ambrose, Crispin Paine

   Series: Heritage: Care-Preservation-Management

   Museums throughout the world have common needs and face common challenges. Keeping up-to-date with new ideas and changing practice is challenging for small and medium-sized museums where time for reading and training is often restricted. This new edition of Museum Basics has therefore been produced...

   Published April 10th 2012 by Routledge
7. Speaking with Pictures

   Folk Art and the Narrative Tradition in India

   By Roma Chatterji

   Series: Critical Asian Studies

   Speaking with Pictures is a path-breaking exploration of visual narratives in folk art. Instead of talking of the recovery of narrativity in Indian modernism through the idiom of folk art, as art critics sometimes do, this book foregrounds folk art’s engagement with modernity by re-looking at its...

   Published March 29th 2012 by Routledge India
8. Cultural Heritage and Prisoners of War

   Creativity Behind Barbed Wire

   Edited by Gilly Carr, Harold Mytum

   Series: Routledge Studies in Heritage

   This book focuses on the numerous examples of creativity produced by POWs and civilian internees during their captivity, including: paintings, cartoons, craftwork, needlework, acting, musical compositions, magazine and newspaper articles, wood carving, and recycled Red Cross tins turned into plates...

   Published March 4th 2012 by Routledge
9. Museum Making

   Narratives, Architectures, Exhibitions

   Edited by Suzanne Macleod, Laura Hourston Hanks, Jonathan Hale

   Series: Museum Meanings

   Over recent decades, many museums, galleries and historic sites around the world have enjoyed an unprecedented level of large-scale investment in their capital infrastructure, in building refurbishments and new gallery displays. This period has also seen the creation of countless new purpose-built...

   Published February 27th 2012 by Routledge
10. Managing Cultural Landscapes

    Edited by Ken Taylor, Jane Lennon

    Series: Key Issues in Cultural Heritage

    One of our deepest needs is for a sense of identity and belonging. A common feature in this is human attachment to landscape and how we find identity in landscape and place. The late 1980s and early 1990s saw a remarkable flowering of interest in, and understanding of, cultural landscapes. With...

    Published February 13th 2012 by Routledge