02/02/17 URP527 Class notes

Historic, significant and important in history

Historical, associated with history

Historic Preservation

·         Saving what is important

·         Identifying what is important AND TO WHOM

Heritage is absolutely biased

·         Lineage

·         History

·         Identity

·         Positive OR Negative Memory: collective and individual

a site for a massacre, battle

·         Customs: food, clothing

·         Politics

·         Economic Resource

·         Religious AND Social cultural Value: female genital mutilation (accepted for centuries)

·         Historical significance

·         A sense of place

Culture

·         Food

·         Culture, a grouping in time or space

·         culture, customs: sartorial style, traditions, ritual/practice

·         Religion

·         Social norms

·         Customs

·         Dynamic/evolving

·         Race/ethnicity

·         Gendered

·         A product of the environment

·         Idiomatic/vernacular language, certain phrases “ask for your John Hancock”

·         Commodification of cultural heritage

Race

·         Fixed, DNA

·         A social construct

·         Varies by discipline

·         Physical characteristics

·         Defined in biological terms

Ethnicity

·         Can be self defined

·         Geographical

·         Language

·         Religion

Preservation

Landscape