Heritage - between and beyond nature, culture and agency.

Format:

Book

Contributor:

Godlewicz-Adamiec, Joanna, editor.

Stobiecka, Monika, editor.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Cultural property.

Museums.

Nature and civilization.

Physical Description:

1 online resource (276 pages)

Edition:

1st edition.

Place of Publication:

Göttingen: V&R unipress, 2025.

Summary:

In an era of climate emergency and political upheaval, heritage demands radical rethinking. This volume confronts the Enlightenment-rooted dualisms that fragment heritage into opposing categories. By embracing posthumanist concepts like naturecultures and agency, this volume explores entangled human and nonhuman pasts, from the contested Białowieża Forest to ancient sensory environments. Through case studies spanning archaeology, museum studies, and literary analysis, contributors unravel heritage as a dynamic, more-than-human meshwork. This collection is an urgent call to transcend reductive binaries, fostering an ethical, responsive, and sustainable heritage practice attuned to our shared, precarious futures.

Contents:

Heritage beyond Nature, Culture, and Agency: Introductory Remarks / Monika Stobiecka, Joanna Godlewicz-Adamiec

More-than-human Agencies in the Museum: The Case of the Parthenon Marbles, the British Museum in London, and the Orange-Brown Patina / Magdalena Wróblewska

Diverse Ways of Processing Material Cultures, with Special Consideration of One Manuscript Exhibition in the Jagiellonian Library (2022) / Jadwiga Kita-Huber

Sirens as Beings of Culture-Nature and Sources of Centuries-Old Heritage / Magdalena Kozluk

Sensory Heritage and Visual Environment in Pre-philosophical Societies / Sebastian Borowicz

Exploring the Heritage Sustainability of the Sundarban Landscape / Camellia Biswas

Agency of Nonhuman Animals, Mountains, Rivers, Trees, and the Entire Universe: Theyyam Rituals of North Kerala, India / Lisa Herrmann-Fertig

Bon Bibir Pala and Balance in the Ecosystem: A Detour of the Cultural Heritage of the Sundarbans with Amitav Ghosh / Dipanwita Pal

An Eco-decolonial Ontology for Museums: A New Pathway towards Relevance, Agency and Social-Ecological Justice / Tom Jeffery

Heritage at Risk, Heritage in Action: Waters, Local Tradition, and the Uneasiness of Environmental Activism in EU Bulgaria / Ivo Strahilov

Past as Possibility: The Potential for Reflective Engagement with Prehistoric Archaeology to Facilitate Ecological Awareness and Ecotherapy.

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ISBN:

3737018758

9783737018753