World Heritage in Iran

Perspectives on Pasargadae

Buch | Hardcover

278 Seiten

2014
Routledge (Verlag)
978-1-4094-4844-0 (ISBN)

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Pasargadae is the location of the tomb of Cyrus the Great, founder of the Achaemenid Empire. Through the ages it was Islamised and the tomb was ascribed to the Mother of Solomon. It was only at the beginning of the twentieth century that archaeological evidence demonstrated the relationship between the site and Cyrus and it was appropriated into conflicting political discourses on nationalism and Islamism while concurrently acknowledged as a national and then a World Heritages site. However, Pasargadae is neither an isolated World Heritage site, nor purely a symbol of abstract state politics. Pasargadae and its immediate vicinity constitute a living landscape occupied by villagers, nomads and tourists. This edited volume presents for the first time a broad, multi-disciplinary examination of Pasargadae by experts from both outside and within Iran. It specifically focuses on those disciplines that are absent from existing studies, such as ethnography, tourism and museum studies providing valuable insights into this fascinating place. In its totality, the book argues that to understand World Heritage sites and their problems fully, a holistic approach should be adopted, which considers the manifold of perspectives and issues. It also puts forward a novel approach to the question of heritage, representation and construction of collective identity from the framework of place.

Ali Mozaffari (PhD) is a Postdoctoral Research Fellow at the Australia-Asia-Pacific Institute (AAPI), Curtin University, Australia.

Contents: Conceptualising a World Heritage Site, Ali Mozaffari; Archaeological approaches and their future directions in Pasargadae, Remy Boucharlat; The current state of heritage management at Pasargadae: problems and prospects, Mohammad-Hassan Talebian; Archaeology and useful knowledge: Pasargadae and the rationalities of digging 'real' places, William M. Taylor; The costs of Paradise: temporalisations of place in Pasargadae, Riccardo Baldissone; Pasargadae, MA dar SoleimA n and LeilA : placing Pasargadae within its present rural context, Soheila Shahshahani; Perspectives and prospects for cultural tourism in the Pasargadae region, Tod Jones and Mohammad-Hassan Talebian; The past in the present: using poetics as an interpretative strategy at Pasargadae, Jennifer Harris; The (unfinished) museum at Pasargadae, Ali Mozaffari and Nigel Westbrook; Antinomies of development: heritage, media and the Sivand dam controversy, Elham Shamoradi and Ebrahim Abdollahzadeh (translated by Ali Mozaffari); Index.

Erscheint lt. Verlag	31.12.2014
Reihe/Serie	Heritage, Culture and Identity
Verlagsort	London
Sprache	englisch
Maße	156 x 234 mm
Gewicht	670 g
Themenwelt	Kunst / Musik / Theater
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Archäologie
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Hilfswissenschaften
	Geisteswissenschaften ► Geschichte ► Regional- / Ländergeschichte
	Technik ► Architektur
ISBN-10	1-4094-4844-4 / 1409448444
ISBN-13	978-1-4094-4844-0 / 9781409448440
Zustand	Neuware