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A History of Hawaiian Archaeology
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Kathleen L. Kawelu
Published: 31 August 2015
...; historic preservation under the Hawaii Administrative Rules; heritage management; and the Society for Hawaiian Archaeology, Hawaii's principal archaeological association. The Society for Hawaiian Archaeology (SHA) currently stands as the principal archaeological association in Hawai‘i...
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Introduction: A Temple under Construction
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James A. Flath
Published: 31 March 2016
... Kong family Temple of Confucius (Kong Temple) history heritage material culture During the height of the Ming dynasty, at the beginning of the Hongzhi reign (1486–1505), Kong Temple (Temple of Confucius) was already one of the oldest continuously maintained architectural sites in China...
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Epilogue: The Transformative Power of Heritage
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James A. Flath
Published: 31 March 2016
...The epilogue reflects upon recent ‘heritage’ developments in Qufu and observes how Kong Temple continues to influence urban planning and cultural development in its home region. Chavannes Edouard Eliade Mircea Hall of the Great Ensemble Dachengdian Restoration Chinese People’s Political...
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Dancing with the Censors: Burmese Performing Arts Keep Time
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Catherine Diamond
Published: 30 June 2012
... is based on Western hostility toward the current regime. The latter is equally complicated not only by a growing generation gap that rejects tradition, but also because of the upholding of Burmese cultural heritage against global intrusion. Regardless of whether they dance facing the generals (army...
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Guests of Lineage Houses: Tourist Commoditization of Confucian Cultural Heritage in Korea
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Okpyo Moon
Published: 22 September 2010
...Old lineage houses are material embodiments of yangban cultural heritage of the Chosŏn period and of the Confucian tradition that yangban culture is believed to have enacted. It is perhaps because so many of these structures remain in Andong that the region has...
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Making Porous and Expansive Boundaries: Jerry Bentley, World History, and Global Publics
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Trevor R. Getz
Published: 30 June 2017
... relationships to microhistories, to heritage production and public displays of history, and to community and public “knowers” of the past. In conclusion, the author proposes several experiments designed to allow world historians to assess the costs and advantages of lowering the boundaries of the field...
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Published: 30 November 2017
...I explore how Korean as a heritage language influences and is influenced by returnees’ membership status and affective belonging both in diaspora and in South Korea. After tracing the politics and policies that affect the Korean language in diaspora, I incorporate legacy migrants’ narratives about...
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Published: 30 September 2013
... to be constructed as representative of tradition in particular times and places. Several of the quan họ narratives indicate an inherent incompatibility between the representative value of quan họ as heritage and the social value of quan họ as the embodiment...
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Introduction
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Maurizio Peleggi
Published: 31 October 2017
... Montien Boonma national heritage moradok haeng chat Piriya Krairiksh Sukhothai Thainess khwampenthai antiquarianism Buddha images monumental sites historical Other depictions of political art prehistory antiquities Cultural memory Cultural heritage Thainess Looking out from the tiny...
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Our Ancestors’ Handprints: The Evolution of Ainu Women’s Clothing Culture
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Tsuda Nobuko and ann-elise lewallen
Published: 31 December 2013
...This chapter describes the “archaeology of Ainu material culture” by drawing upon Ainu genre paintings combined with analysis of Ainu material culture heritage in European and Japanese museums. Heritage textile practices today identified as traditional are better categorized as one stage...
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American Aloha: Cultural Tourism and the Negotiation of Tradition
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Heather A. Diamond
Published online: 17 November 2016
Published in print: 03 June 2008
...At the 1989 Smithsonian Folklife Festival (SFF), throngs of visitors gathered on the National Mall to celebrate Hawaiʻi's multicultural heritage through its traditional arts. The “edu-tainment” spectacle revealed a richly complex Hawaiʻi that few tourists ever see and one never before or since...
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Consuming Korean Tradition in Early and Late Modernity: Commodification, Tourism, and Performance
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Laurel Kendall (ed.)
Published online: 17 November 2016
Published in print: 22 September 2010
... their sense of a common Korean past. It offers new insights into issues of national identity, heritage preservation, tourism, performance, the commodification of contemporary life, and the nature of “tradition” and “modernity” more generally....
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Published: 30 September 2013
... the genre as a form of cultural heritage. It examines how sound and image are used to construct an “authentic” picture of quan họ by investigating how festival attendees learn to “see” the picturesque when they “hear” quan họ. It considers this form of broadcasting as a kind...
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Published: 31 August 2014
... on the people of Oceania. Their use of lau hala sails enabled them to move beyond the reef and become an ocean-voyaging people capable of exploring the vastness of the Pacific. In addition, every part of this tree has uses that have been critical to the cultural heritage and survival of the peoples...
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Kong Temple and the Modern Politics of Culture
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James A. Flath
Published: 31 March 2016
... Worshipping the Sage Code Yuan Shikai Zhang Xun Chen Duxiu Duan Qirui Emperor Puyi Qing Hu Shi Hundred Households Kang Youwei Li Yuanhong Wu Yu Yi Baisha Duke of Fulfilling the Sage Yanshenggong Feng Guozhang Hall of Repose Qindian heritage conservation regulations Jade Disc Moat Kong Decheng...
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Colonial Foundations of Korean Cultural Policy
Roald Maliangkay
Published: 31 October 2017
...Legislation related to the protection of cultural properties in Korea has its roots in the period of Japanese colonial rule. The development of Korea’s heritage management policies reflects a growing recognition of cultural property as representing historical and cultural value beyond mere private...
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Ike Ulana Lau Hala: The Vitality and Vibrancy of Lau Hala Weaving Traditions in Hawaii
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Lia O'Neill M. A. Keawe (ed.) and others
Published online: 17 November 2016
Published in print: 31 August 2014
...; perspectives—in Hawaiian—of a native speaker from Niʻihau on master weavers and the relationship between teacher and learner; a review—also in Hawaiian—of references to lauhala in poetical sayings and idioms; a survey of lauhala in Hawaiian cultural heritage and the documentation project underway to share...
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Broken Voices: Postcolonial Entanglements and the Preservation of Korea's Central Folksong Traditions
Roald Maliangkay
Published online: 24 May 2018
Published in print: 31 October 2017
...Broken Voices is the first English-language book on Korea’s rich folksong traditions, and the first study of the effects of Japanese colonialism on the intangible heritage of its former colony. Maliangkay demonstrates that South Korea’s cultural preservation system, one of the world’s most...
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Exhibiting the Past: Historical Memory and the Politics of Museums in Postsocialist China
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Kirk A. Denton
Published online: 17 November 2016
Published in print: 31 December 2013
... revolutionary heritage to generate political legitimacy. With its messages of collectivism, self-sacrifice, and class struggle, that heritage is increasingly at odds with Chinese society and with the state's own neoliberal ideology of rapid-paced development, glorification of the market, and entrepreneurship...
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Whose Prehistory? Thailand before the Thais
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Maurizio Peleggi
Published: 31 October 2017
... transferred to The University Museum, Philadelphia. After the end of the Cold War, Ban Chiang received the validation of UNESCO World Heritage, but the place it occupies in Thai cultural memory remains marginal. Bhumibol Rama IX prehistory antiquities —Ban Chiang findings University of Pennsylvania Museum...