World Heritage Sites
World Heritage Sites

Author: Unesco

Publisher:

Published: 2018

Total Pages: 960

ISBN-13: 9780228101352

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"The eighth edition fully updates the book to add 42 new sites. World Heritage sites are judged under strict criteria with a view to the aim that they reflect the world's cultural and natural diversity and are of outstanding universal value. World Heritage Sites attracts a general readership as well as travellers and those with an interest in natural or human history, the Earth sciences, geography, conservation of the environment, wildlife and habitats; and planning and preservation."--

World Heritage Sites
World Heritage Sites

Author: Unesco

Publisher:

Published: 2011

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781554078271

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Each site has an entry explaining its historical and cultural significance, with a description and location map.

World Heritage on the Ground
World Heritage on the Ground

Author: Christoph Brumann

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2016-04-01

Total Pages: 336

ISBN-13: 1785330926

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The UNESCO World Heritage Convention of 1972 set the contemporary standard for cultural and natural conservation. Today, a place on the World Heritage List is much sought after for tourism promotion, development funding, and national prestige. Presenting case studies from across the globe, particularly from Africa and Asia, anthropologists with situated expertise in specific World Heritage sites explore the consequences of the World Heritage framework and the global spread of the UNESCO heritage regime. This book shows how local and national circumstances interact with the global institutional framework in complex and unexpected ways. Often, the communities around World Heritage sites are constrained by these heritage regimes rather than empowered by them.

World Heritage Craze in China
World Heritage Craze in China

Author: Haiming Yan

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2018-03-28

Total Pages: 242

ISBN-13: 1785338056

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There is a World Heritage Craze in China. China claims to have the longest continuous civilization in the world and is seeking recognition from UNESCO. This book explores three dimensions of the UNESCO World Heritage initiative with particular relevance for China: the universal agenda, the national practices, and the local responses. With a sociological lens, this book offers comprehensive insights into World Heritage, as well as China’s deep social, cultural, and political structures.

World Heritage Sites
World Heritage Sites

Author: Unesco

Publisher: Firefly Books

Published: 2016

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781770858176

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Each site has an entry explaining its historical and cultural significance, with a description and location map.

The World's Heritage
The World's Heritage

Author: Unesco

Publisher:

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9780007546978

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A unique guide to every UNESCO World Heritage site, this book explores some of the world's most extraordinary places.

World Heritage Sites
World Heritage Sites

Author: Unesco

Publisher: Firefly Books

Published: 2014

Total Pages: 0

ISBN-13: 9781770852532

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"Published jointly by the United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco) ... and Firefly Books Ltd. 2014"--Title page verso.

The Best We Share
The Best We Share

Author: Christoph Brumann

Publisher: Berghahn Books

Published: 2021-03-03

Total Pages: 315

ISBN-13: 1800730454

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The UNESCO World Heritage Convention is one of the most widely ratified international treaties, and a place on the World Heritage List is a widely coveted mark of distinction. Building on ethnographic fieldwork at Committee sessions, interviews and documentary study, the book links the change in operations of the World Heritage Committee with structural nation-centeredness, vulnerable procedures for evaluation, monitoring and decision-making, and loose heritage conceptions that have been inconsistently applied. As the most ambitious study of the World Heritage arena so far, this volume dissects the inner workings of a prominent global body, demonstrating the power of ethnography in the highly formalised and diplomatic context of a multilateral organisation.

The Heritage-scape
The Heritage-scape

Author: Di Michael A. Giovine

Publisher: Lexington Books

Published: 2009

Total Pages: 542

ISBN-13: 0739114352

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This book explores how the mere designation of World Heritage sites can achieve UNESCO's goal of creating lasting worldwide peace. Drawing on ethnography, policy analysis, and a sophisticated fusion of anthropological theories, Di Giovine convincingly reveals the existence of a global heritage-scape and provides a detailed yet expansive look at the politics and processes, histories and structures, and the rituals and symbolisms of the interrelated phenomena of tourism, historic preservation, and UNESCO's World Heritage Convention.