Now watch ‘Themes in heritage studies’ (duration 5 minutes). It raises a series of open questions about the nature of heritage and heritage studies as an academic discipline, and points to the broad themes that we will attempt to address.
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These are complex questions, and how you respond will depend to a large extent on your point of view regarding what heritage ‘is’ and its value to global human societies. But these questions should frame the way in which you approach all of the case studies in global heritage.
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