Armenia across borders : heritage revitalization from the Soviet era to the present
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- Armenia, a small landlocked country in the South Caucasus, is densely packed with an estimated 33,000 cultural heritage sites ranging from a prehistoric wine production center to hundreds of medieval churches. Since the beginning of the Armenian Soviet Socialist Republic (1922-1991), these sites, and in particular, medieval religious complexes, have been the target of heritage revitalization projects meant to not only return heritage to a previous state or to prevent further decay but also to make heritage usable, in a sense, to revive heritage. This dissertation ethnographically explores heritage revitalization projects from the Soviet era to the present. Drawing upon extensive fieldwork in Yerevan and the villages of Areni and Tatev, this dissertation reveals how for the past eighty years, heritage mediators have enacted a multitude of heritage revitalization projects at sites with little to no contestation, promulgating seemingly similar identity-building narratives while also pursuing alternative social, political, and economic agendas. Ultimately, this dissertation, while focusing on the history of heritage revitalization programs in a South Caucasus nation, broadens anthropological research in the former Soviet Union, and encourages a reconceptualization of what happens to heritage in transitional phases of statehood. This dissertation reveals that in Armenia, heritage can be simultaneously used for dissonant purposes without causing contestations or frictions.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
|---|---|
| Form | electronic resource; remote; computer; online resource |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Place | California |
| Place | [Stanford, California] |
| Publisher | [Stanford University] |
| Copyright date | 2019; ©2019 |
| Publication date | 2019; 2019 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Author | Papazian, Sabrina |
|---|---|
| Degree supervisor | Meskell, Lynn |
| Thesis advisor | Meskell, Lynn |
| Thesis advisor | Hodder, Ian |
| Thesis advisor | Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian |
| Degree committee member | Hodder, Ian |
| Degree committee member | Watenpaugh, Heghnar Zeitlian |
| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
|---|---|
| Genre | Text |
Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Sabrina Papazian. |
|---|---|
| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Thesis Ph.D. Stanford University 2019. |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2019 by Sabrina Papazian
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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