This book provides detailed insights into the role of microorganisms and microbial products in biodeterioration, conservation, and restoration of cultural heritage.

This book investigates the selection process of heritagisation to understand what specific pasts are being selected or rejected for representation, who is selecting them, how and to whom they are being represented and why they are being presented, or dismissed, in the ways that they are.

This work comprises an important collection of essays which give voice to the varied and diverse debates surrounding the cultural heritage domain in the 21st century.

This collection of essays by noted folklorist Regina F. Bendix, offers a personal record of the unfolding scholarly debate regarding value in the studies of tourism, heritage, and cultural property. Written over the course of several decades, Bendix's case studies and theoretical contributions chronicle the growing and transforming ways in which ethnographic scholarship has observed social actors generating value when carrying culture to market, enhancing value in inventing protective and restorative regimes for culture, and securing the potential for both in devising property rights.

Bringing the reader the very best of modern scholarship from the heritage community, this comprehensive reader outlines and explains the many diverse issues that have been identified and brought to the fore in the field of heritage, museums and galleries over the past couple of decades.

Bringing together both heritage and literary studies, this book examines heritage as a ubiquitous trope in contemporary Britain, and a seemingly inescapable figure for relations to the past. Engaging with contemporary literary and cinematic texts, this work is a valuable source of knowledge for anyone working in or around the heritage space.

This title is a comprehensive reference and sourcebook for anyone managing a heritage place, an Indigenous site, historic building, or any other place of cultural importance to the community. It provides a step-by-step guide to identifying a heritage place, assessing and documenting the site, implementing conservation practices, and visitor management. It also includes relevant international and Australian legislation.

Examining international case studies including USA, Asia, Australia and New Zealand, Smith identifies and explores the use of heritage throughout the world. Challenging the idea that heritage value is self-evident, and that things must be preserved because they have an inherent importance, she forcefully demonstrates that heritage value is not inherent in physical objects or places, but rather that these objects and places are used to give tangibility to the values that underpin different communities and to assert and affirm these values.