http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/against-cultural-property/ political archaeology Mon, 09 Nov 2009 13:51:36 +0000 http://wordpress.com/ hourly 1 http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/against-cultural-property/#comment-155 Bones of contention « The Assemblage Thu, 04 Jan 2007 18:39:33 +0000 http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/against-cultural-property/#comment-155 [...] Against cultural property [...] [...] Against cultural property [...]

]]> http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/against-cultural-property/#comment-154 Erik Thu, 04 Jan 2007 17:39:47 +0000 http://politicalarchaeology.wordpress.com/2006/11/27/against-cultural-property/#comment-154 As you say, Carman's book is a welcome statement in the context of the 'heritage industry'. I had a chance to read it over the Christmas holidays and must admit that I was pleasantly surprised, relatively unfamiliar (and prejudiced) as I was with heritage discourses. It's a good example of discourse analysis that doesn't get trapped in the dichotomies of the debate, but through careful and insightful (almost genealogical in the sense of discourse) analysis of terminology opens up opportunities for the development of alternative models in the final chapters. As in all discourse analyses, the first chapters generates a feeling of being trapped in the rules of a language game, but I think in the end I was convinced. As you say, Carman’s book is a welcome statement in the context of the ‘heritage industry’. I had a chance to read it over the Christmas holidays and must admit that I was pleasantly surprised, relatively unfamiliar (and prejudiced) as I was with heritage discourses. It’s a good example of discourse analysis that doesn’t get trapped in the dichotomies of the debate, but through careful and insightful (almost genealogical in the sense of discourse) analysis of terminology opens up opportunities for the development of alternative models in the final chapters. As in all discourse analyses, the first chapters generates a feeling of being trapped in the rules of a language game, but I think in the end I was convinced.

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