The heritage of aftermath : making "heritage at risk" in post-tsunami Banda Aceh
Abstract/Contents
- Abstract
- This dissertation examines the construction of cultural heritage in the aftermath of large-scale destruction, in Banda Aceh, Indonesia. It is concerned with the traditions that negotiate this process, focusing on the intersection between existing cultural traditions of Banda Aceh and the vernacularization of a global tradition of preservation, a philosophy and practice that is concerned with interrupting the destruction of material culture. The latter is examined through the construct of 'heritage at risk', a rhetorical device that regulates the deployment of preservation at the global level. However, this is a construct that has little application to the emergence of new heritage places as it is observed in Aceh following the 2004 Indian Ocean tsunami. This demands a re-evaluation of the ways that vulnerability and heritage have been blended and naturalized in discourse and practice. In the context of an Acehnese claim to uniqueness, the successful vernacularization of a preservation practice is evident in the formalization of distinct ways to represent history, identity and a recent assimilation of a 'culture of disaster', into coherent heritage assemblages. However, the heritage construct that is articulated in Aceh does not fit the already established boundaries of 'non-Western' or 'Asian' heritage, instead it creatively weaves elements of Western and Asian established preservation philosophies, to preserve specific cultural values of significance. As such, the heritage of Aceh does not wait to be legitimized by the global heritage discourse or its experts, as it responds to localized structures of legitimacy and democratization. Arguments in this dissertation challenge the persistent absence of culture in cultural heritage preservation methodologies, suggesting ways in which cultural heritage should be constructed and debated as situated knowledge. This dissertation goes beyond a case study of heritage management. It is a critical assessment of the construction of heritage categories outside of a risk-centered framework that necessarily eliminates the ageism that is characteristic of heritage constructs. It is centered instead on the contributions of an ethnographic approach to recognizing locally situated practices of preservation that produce heritage places in the context of post-tsunami Aceh.
Description
| Type of resource | text |
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| Form | electronic; electronic resource; remote |
| Extent | 1 online resource. |
| Publication date | 2011 |
| Issuance | monographic |
| Language | English |
Creators/Contributors
| Associated with | Rico, Maria Trinidad |
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| Associated with | Stanford University, Department of Anthropology. |
| Primary advisor | Meskell, Lynn |
| Thesis advisor | Meskell, Lynn |
| Thesis advisor | Byrne, Denis (Denis Richard), 1949- |
| Thesis advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Thesis advisor | Hodder, Ian |
| Advisor | Byrne, Denis (Denis Richard), 1949- |
| Advisor | Ebron, Paulla A, 1953- |
| Advisor | Hodder, Ian |
Subjects
| Genre | Theses |
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Bibliographic information
| Statement of responsibility | Maria Trinidad Rico. |
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| Note | Submitted to the Department of Anthropology. |
| Thesis | Ph.D. Stanford University 2011 |
| Location | electronic resource |
Access conditions
- Copyright
- © 2011 by Maria Trinidad Rico
- License
- This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution Non Commercial 3.0 Unported license (CC BY-NC).
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