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A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan: In the Shadow of the Buddhas

A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan: In the Shadow of the Buddhas

Wyndham, Constance

Hardcover

Series: Routledge Studies in Culture and Development

Asian ArtGeneral ArtMiddle Eastern Art

ISBN10: 103256833X
ISBN13: 9781032568331
Publisher: Routledge
Published: Dec 22 2023
Pages: 236
Weight: 1.16
Height: 0.63 Width: 6.14 Depth: 9.21
Language: English

A New Politics of Heritage Reconstruction in Afghanistan investigates the politics of cultural heritage preservation in Afghanistan between 2008 and 2015.

Based on several periods of ethnographic fieldwork and the author's direct employment on several internationally-sponsored heritage projects, this book studies the new and complex intersections between cultural heritage and politics in Afghanistan. Wyndham argues that a particular configuration of heritage and politics has emerged after the destruction of the Buddhas at Bamyan and demonstrates how the characteristics of this 'post-Bamyan' heritage paradigm are revealed through a number of case studies of internationally sponsored heritage work. These case studies reveal how politics and heritage are currently configured across a diverse range of governments, state and non-state actors, NGOs, individuals and forms of expertise--and why such intersections matter. The book responds to a call from across the discipline of Heritage Studies to look more closely at the relationships between heritage, power and politics.

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