Heritage of value, archaeology of renown [electronic resource] : reshaping archaeological assessment and significance

Table of Contents 8 List of Figures ix 10 List of Tables xi 12 Foreword xiii 14 Preface and Acknowledgments xv 16 List of Abbreviations xvii 18 1. Introduction: Archaeological value in a world context 1 20 I. Archaeology and heritage 38 2. “Sorted for ease and whiz”?: Approaching value and importance in archaeological resource management 21 40 3. Good citizens and sound economics: The trajectory of archaeology in Britain from “heritage” to “resource” 43 62 4. Shaping and suppressing the archaeological record: Significancein American cultural resource management 58 77 II. Archaeology in context 94 5. Archaeological significance and the governance of identity in culturalheritage management 77 96 6. “Rigidity and a changing order . . . disorder, degeneracy and daemonicrepetition”: Fluidity of cultural values and cultural heritage management 89 108 7. The U.S. National Register of Historic Places and the shaping of archaeologicalsignificance 114 133 8. Reassessing archaeological significance: Heritage of value and archaeology of renown in Brazil 125 144 9. Plastic value: Archaeological significance in South Africa 137 156 III. Judging value and importance 176 10. “Drawing distinctions”: Toward a scalar model of value and significance 159 178 11. Significance in American cultural resource management: Lost in the past 192 211 12. Archaeological deposits and value 211 230 13. Archaeological and Indigenous significance: A view from Australia 227 246 14. Sacredness, sensitivity, and significance: The controversy over NativeAmerican sacred sites 248 267 15. Traditional cultural properties and the national preservation program in the United States 276 295 IV. Managing valued places 306 16. Handling the unknown: The expanding role of predictive modeling in archaeological heritage management in the Netherlands 289 308 17. Assessing the cultural significance of World Heritage Sites: A case study fromAvebury, Wiltshire, England 301 320 18. The bigger picture: Archaeology and values in long term cultural resourcemanagement 317 336 List of Contributors 331 350 Index 335 354 Reyes analyzes the works of Nemesio Canales, Luis Rafael Sanchez, Ana Lydia Vega, and Pedro Pietri to argue that their works resituate the parameters of national identity by blurring the lines between the subject and object of humor, the inside and outside of the text, and the here and there of the diasporic Puerto Rican nation