Lafrenz Samuels, Kathryn & Trinidad Rico (eds). Heritage keywords: rhetoric and redescription in cultural heritage. xx, 309 pp., map, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Boulder: Univ. Press of Colorado, 2015. £28.84 (paper)

Citation

Vonnák D (2017) Lafrenz Samuels, Kathryn & Trinidad Rico (eds). Heritage keywords: rhetoric and redescription in cultural heritage. xx, 309 pp., map, tables, illus., bibliogrs. Boulder: Univ. Press of Colorado, 2015. £28.84 (paper). Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute, 23 (3), pp. 634-635. https://doi.org/10.1111/1467-9655.12665

Abstract
First paragraph: Kathryn Lafrenz Samuels and Trinidad Rico's edited volume gives readers a fresh focus on language to the growing literature on heritage studies. This remarkably consistent collection brings together fifteen ‘keywords’ in a theoretical frame that Lafrenz Samuels’ introduction and Rico's conclusion sketch out. Going against the expansion and codification of prevailing heritage vocabularies, the editors (and contributors) approach heritage as rhetoric in order to grasp its semantic fluidity and solidification in applied and academic contexts. Heritage keywords thus collects concept-driven case studies that approximate scholarly and practitioner concerns. The essays proffer hermeneutical, constructivist approaches of critical heritage scholarship to practitioners constrained by institutionally mediated dynamics of conceptual change.

Keywords
Arts and Humanities (miscellaneous); Anthropology

Journal
Journal of the Royal Anthropological Institute: Volume 23, Issue 3

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Dr Diana Vonnak

Research Fellow, History