Contested Cultural Heritage

1. Contested Cultural Heritage: A Selective Historiography
Helaine Silverman

2. The Stratigraphy of Forgetting: The Great Mosque of Cordoba and Its Contested Legacy
D. Fairchild Ruggles

3. Aestheticized Geographies of Conflict: The Politicization of Culture and the Culture of Politics in Belfast’s Mural Tradition
Alexandra Hartnett

4. Blood of Our Ancestors: Cultural Heritage Management in the Balkans
Michael L. Galaty

5. Re-imagining the National Past: Negotiating the Roles of Science, Religion, and History in Contemporary British Ghost Tourism
Michele M. Hanks

6. Collecting and Repatriating Egypt’s Past: Toward a New Nationalism
Salima Ikram

7. National Identity Interrupted: The Mutilation of the Parthenon Marbles and the Greek Claim for Repatriation
Vasiliki Kynourgiopoulou

8. Syrian National Museums: Regional Politics and the Imagined Community
Kari A. Zobler

9. Contestation from the Top: Fascism in the Realm of Culture and Italy’s Conception of the Past
Alvaro Higueras

10. Touring the Slave Route: Inaccurate Authenticities in Bénin, West Africa
Timothy R. Landry

11. Carving the Nation: Zimbabwean Sculptors and the Contested Heritage of Aesthetics
Lance L. Larkin

12. Afterword: El Pilar and Maya Cultural Heritage: Reflections of a Cheerful Pessimist
Anabel Ford

Avainsanat: Social Sciences, Archaeology, Cultural Heritage