Decoding heritage
Year: 2023
Type: article
Abstract: The advancement of heritage into a culmination of thought processes and methodological approaches that we have to date speaks volumes. To a larger extent, the development of heritage has been influenced by the highly appropriated archaeological discipline, which had a tendency of considering the past as an ‘alien’ as opposed to an ‘inheritance’. It is therefore probably orderly by now that we have varying philosophies on what must be valued as heritage. We should debate and write freely on whether we are balanced (do we all have a voice) on our portrayal of heritage. The last few decades have seen pragmatic discussions on the nature of heritage as a geographically and conceptually global phenomenon. Heritage has therefore been defined differently and continually re-defined, structured and re-structured, conceptualized and re-conceptualized. This resulted in an array of notions that influence heritage research, preservation, consumption and presentation.
Author: Mathibidi Ndobochani, Nonofho
Language: Spanish
Subfield: Archeology (arts and humanities)
Field: Arts and Humanities
Domain: Social Sciences
Open Access status: diamond
OpenAlex ID: W7220588293