1.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910783863503321

Autore

Primavesi Anne <1934, >

Titolo

Gaia's gift : earth, ourselves and God after Copernicus / / Anne Primavesi

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London ; ; New York : , : Routledge, , 2003

ISBN

1-134-44264-5

0-415-28834-7

1-134-44265-3

1-299-14014-9

1-280-07292-X

0-203-63378-4

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (160 p.)

Classificazione

11.69

Disciplina

291.2/4

Soggetti

Religion and science - History

Theological anthropology - Christianity - History of doctrines

Human ecology - Religious aspects - Christianity

Gaia hypothesis

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references (p. [140]-144) and index.

Nota di contenuto

Book Cover; Title; Contents; Acknowledgements; Introduction; The astronomical revolution; After Copernicus; Theological challenges to Copernicus; The incomplete revolution; Revolution within ourselves; Heaven on earth; Life on earth; Gift exchanges; Gift exchange today; Notes; Bibliography; Index;

Sommario/riassunto

Gaia's Gift, the second of Anne Primavesi's explorations of human relationships with the earth, asks that we complete the ideological revolution set in motion by Copernicus and Darwin concerning human importance.



2.

Record Nr.

UNINA9910961885103321

Titolo

The Palgrave Handbook of Contemporary Heritage Research / / edited by E. Waterton, S. Watson

Pubbl/distr/stampa

London : , : Palgrave Macmillan UK : , : Imprint : Palgrave Macmillan, , 2015

ISBN

9781786846952

1786846950

9781137293565

113729356X

Edizione

[1st ed. 2015.]

Descrizione fisica

1 online resource (587 p.)

Classificazione

BIO002000HIS037000HIS037030HIS054000

Disciplina

363.6/9072

363.69072

Soggetti

Civilization - History

World history

Ethnology - Latin America

Culture

Culture - Study and teaching

Social history

History, Modern

Cultural History

World History, Global and Transnational History

Latin American Culture

Cultural Studies

Social History

Modern History

Lingua di pubblicazione

Inglese

Formato

Materiale a stampa

Livello bibliografico

Monografia

Note generali

Description based upon print version of record.

Nota di bibliografia

Includes bibliographical references at the end of each chapters and index.

Nota di contenuto

Cover; Contents; List of Figures and Tables; Acknowledgements; Notes on Contributors; Heritage as a Focus of Research: Past, Present and New Directions; Heritage in the past; Heritage now and in the future; Conclusion; Part I: Heritage Meanings; 1 The Ontological Politics of



Heritage;  or How Research Can Spoil a Good Story; Dark figures of heritage; Heritage researched; Future directions; 2 Heritage and Discourse; The notion of discourse; Heritage as discourse and discursive practice; Discourse analysis and the critique of heritage; Future trends in discursive studies of heritage

Concluding remarks3 Heritage as Performance; Introduction: The uses of heritage; The 'performance turn'; Performances of heritage; Performances at heritage sites; Performances with heritage; Conclusion: A moderate stand on performance; 4 Heritage and Authenticity; Heritage and authenticity in the nineteenth century; Authenticity in architecture becomes an international heritage doctrine; UNESCO, authenticity and intangible cultural heritage; Authenticity, heritage and tourism; Current research on heritage and authenticity

Implications of authenticity for local, national and international heritage policyConclusion; Part II: Heritage in Context; 5 From Heritage to Archaeology and Back Again; Inventing archaeology; Reinventing archaeology in the new world; Conclusion; Acknowledgements; 6 Heritage and History; Introduction; Public History; Heritage debates in Britain; History at war; What can history do for heritage?; Conclusion; 7 Thinking about Others through Museums and Heritage; 8 Heritage and Tourism; A brief history of heritage tourism; Touring heritage: Making identities; Understanding heritage tourists

Conclusions: A future research agenda9 Heritage and Geography; Geography and the heritage debate; Theorizing memory spaces; Space, memory and heritage; Nature, heritage and identity; Conclusion; Part III: Heritage and Cultural Experience; 10 Affect, Heritage, Feeling; Introduction; Heritage journeys; Phenomenology and performativity; Affect, emotion, feeling; Affect, feeling, knowing: Heritage and spacetimes of heritage; Conclusions and ongoing reflections; 11 Heritage and Memory; Selected foundations; Memory in heritage studies: Selected theoretical issues and current key themes

Case studies: Memory, landscapes, embodiment, difficult heritageInto the future: Continuing and emerging directions; Acknowledgements; 12 Heritage and the Visual Arts; The visual arts legacy; The visual arts within contemporary heritage; Conclusion; 13 Industrial Heritage and Tourism: A Review of the Literature; State of the art; Analysis of the literature survey; Future directions; 14 Curating Sound for Future Communities; Field recordings, sonic heritage and sound curation; Pro-active sound archiving; Sound elicitation and case studies; Future directions for collaborative sound curation

15 Heritage and Sport

Sommario/riassunto

This book explores heritage from a wide range of perspectives and disciplines and in doing so provides a distinctive and deeply relevant survey of the field as it is currently researched, understood and practiced around the world.