Manon Istasse

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Living in a World Heritage Site: Ethnography of Houses and Daily Life in the Fez Medina (2019)Paperback - 2019, 14 August 2020

Living in a World Heritage Site: Ethnography of Houses and Daily Life in the Fez Medina (2019)
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Part of Series
Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology
Print Length
293 pages
Language
English
Publisher
Palgrave MacMillan
Date Published
14 Aug 2020
ISBN-10
3030174530
ISBN-13
9783030174538

Description

Through a thick ethnography of the Fez medina in Morocco, a World Heritage site since 1981, Manon Istasse interrogates how human beings come to define houses as heritage. Istasse interrogates how heritage appears (or not) when inhabitants undertake construction and restoration projects in their homes, furnish and decorate their spaces, talk about their affective and sensual relations with houses, face conflicts in and about their houses, and more. Shedding light on the continuum between houses-as-dwellings and houses-as-heritage, the author establishes heritage as a trajectory: heritage as a quality results from a 'surplus of attention' and relates to nostalgia or to a feeling of threat, loss, and disappearance; to values related to purity, materiality, and time; and to actions of preservation and transmission. Living in a World Heritage site provides a grammar of heritage that will allow scholars to question key notions of temporality and nostalgia, the idea of culture, the importance of experts, and moral principles in relation to heritage sites around the globe.

Product Details

Author:
Manon Istasse
Book Edition:
2019
Book Format:
Paperback
Country of Origin:
NL
Date Published:
14 August 2020
Dimensions:
21.01 x 14.81 x 1.68 cm
Genre:
Urban
ISBN-10:
3030174530
ISBN-13:
9783030174538
Language:
English
Location:
Cham
Pages:
293
Weight:
376.48 gm

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