Heritage, Communities and Archaeology
Author/editor: Laurajane Smith, Emma Waterton
Year published: 2013
This book traces the development of 'community archaeology', identifying both its advantages and disadvantages by describing how and why tensions have arisen between archaeological and community understandings of the past. The focus of this book is the conceptual disjunction between heritage and…
Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes
Author/editor: Laurajane Smith, Paul Shackel, Gary Campbell
Year published: 2011
Heritage, Labour and the Working Classes is both a celebration and commemoration of working class culture. It contains sometimes inspiring accounts of working class communities and people telling their own stories, and weaves together examples of tangible and intangible heritage, place,…
Uses of Heritage
Author/editor: Laurajane Smith
Year published: 2006
Published in 2006 by Routledge, the book Uses of Heritage offers a re-theorization of heritage that de-privileges the idea of heritage as a ‘thing’, place or site. It develops two interlinked arguments, the first of which is that heritage is a performance of meaning making, and…