Trinidad Rico

Gebundenes Buch

Constructing Destruction

Heritage Narratives in the Tsunami City

Beschreibung

Rico's critical ethnography analyses heritage practices in the aftermath of the tsunami that swamped Banda Aceh, Indonesia, in 2004 and the post-destruction narratives that accompanied it, showing the sociocultural, historical, and political agendas these discourses raise.

Autor

Trinidad Rico is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at Texas A&M University at Qatar, and Honorary Lecturer at UCL. She holds a PhD in Anthropology from Stanford University, an MA in Cultural and Social Anthropology from Stanford University, an MA in Principles of Conservation from UCL, and a BA in Archaeology and Anthropology from the University of Cambridge. Her areas of research include ethnographic heritage, critical heritage studies and risk, the construction of Islamic materiality, and cosmopolitanism and the vernacularization of discourses and expertise. Her recent work focuses on the construction and operation of vulnerability in cultural heritage discourses and methods in Indonesia, and the mobilization of Islamic values in heritage making in Indonesia and the Arabian Peninsula. She is co-editor of Heritage Keywords: Rhetoric and Redescription in Cultural Heritage (University Press of Colorado, 2015) and Cultural Heritage in the Arabian Peninsula (Ashgate, 2014).

Produktdetails

• Verlag: Taylor & Francis
• Seitenzahl: 136
• Erscheinungstermin: 4. April 2016
• Englisch
• Abmessung: 234mm x 157mm x 18mm
• Gewicht: 431g
• ISBN-13: 9781629584379
• ISBN-10: 1629584371
• Artikelnr.: 44159199