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- Title: Current Realities, Idealised Pasts: Archaeology, Values and Indigenous Heritage Management in Central Australia.
- Author : Oceania
- Release Date : January 01, 2002
- Genre: Social Science,Books,Nonfiction,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 235 KB
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Over the last century, heritage protection regimes have been established throughout the world to conserve the heritage of the colonised, whose own notions of heritage as cultural property have previously gone largely unrecognised. Byrne (1991) and Smith (1996, 2000) have examined the operation of conservation values in serving to promote and maintain a dominant colonial position in the heritage management industry both in Australia and abroad. The use of the conservation ethic to denounce Aboriginal repainting of rock art sites is one example given of a failure to recognise or accept that Indigenous societies may hold views of heritage which may be radically different from those which prevail in dominant institutions. Such examples prompted Byrne (1991:273) to write '... what is missing in the consciousness of heritage management practitioners generally [is]: an understanding of the values underlying the Western management ethos and an openness to alternatives'. By the same token, Indigenous people have in recent times come to use archaeology and heritage legislation to represent their own interests at the political level in a range of arenas. While this process inevitably involves modernisation it does not necessarily reflect wholesale adoption of non-Indigenous values and epistemologies. Lowenthal (1990:302) for example argues that 'the Western emphasis on material tokens of antiquity as symbols of heritage has been all but universally adopted' and sees this as part of the 'diffusion of Western cultural norms'. This raises the question of whether the transmission of new cultural forms and practices must include a corresponding transfer of meaning. It could be argued that rather than the internalisation of Western values, adoption of contemporary heritage practices by Indigenous groups reflects a conscious manipulation of those values in terms of their own priorities and interests.
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