Communicating archaeological heritage

2018 ◽  
Vol 28 (1) ◽  
pp. 151-171
Author(s):  
Shuhaida Md Noor ◽  
Mastura Jaafar ◽  
Yugeetha Balan
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
Cultural Backgrounds ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Present Context ◽  
Village Elders ◽  
Depth Interviews

Abstract Existing archaeological heritage communication focuses on educating the public by emphasising scientific knowledge from the perspectives of experts (e.g. archaeologists), often sidelining the perspectives of the local community. Nevertheless, the local community’s perspective is equally important in providing humanistic insights and in connecting the past to the present context. This research explores how local communities make meaning of and relate heritage to their social identity. In-depth interviews were conducted with 20 purposely-sampled representatives from various local community groups in Lenggong Valley, Malaysia; including village heads, village elders and individuals from various social and cultural backgrounds. The findings provide interesting insights into how the local community defines and connects to heritage. Importantly, this study highlights multilayered dimensions of archaeological heritage that are intricately connected to contemporary society. Incorporating these wider dimensions into archaeological heritage communication will result in communication that is more socially, culturally and psychologically relevant, thus engendering greater interest and appreciation.

scholarly journals Tinggalan Arkeologi Di Pura Penataran Kacang Bubuan Mas

HUMANIS ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 23 (4) ◽  
pp. 291
Author(s):  
Mochamad Irfan ◽  
I Wayan Srijaya ◽  
Coleta Palupi Titasari
Keyword(s):  
Local Community ◽  
Contextual Analysis ◽  
Shift Function ◽  
Archaeological Remains ◽  
Functional Theory ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Sacred Objects ◽  
The Temple

In Bali, the archaeological remains is still functioned and sanctified by the public by placing them in a temple, one of them is Penataran Kacang Bubuan Mas Temple, Ubud, Gianyar regency. The methodin this study is a qualitative committee method which will produce desktiptif data in the form of written words. Data analyis being applied in this research is the qualitative analysis,iconography analysis and contextual analysis. Some theories being applied in this research is the functional theory and semiotics theory. Based on the analysis, the conclusions are drawn in the form of archaeological heritage of 1 piece Ganesha statue,1 piece simpel statue (primitive statue), 6 pieces embodiment statues of bhatari, 2 pieces embodiment statues of bhatara, 1 piece lingga (tribhaga), 2 pieces animal statues, 1 piece priest statue, 1 pieces clownman statue, 4 pieces fragments of statues, 1 piece fragment waterless building fragment, 1 piece natural stone. Archaelogical remains in Penataran Kacang Bubuan Mas Temple, Ubud, Gianyar regency when viewed from its function in the past has experienced a shift function. The local community is still sanctify archaeological remains as a workship tool to ask for safety and protection from harm and fertility. The meaning of the archaeological remains found in the temple is sacred objects for the means of worship by the penyungsung pura community. The means of worshiping the requested statues is symbolism or symbolic that connects worshipers with gods, ancestral holy spirits or for Sang Hyang Widhi Wasa (God).

scholarly journals Indestructible Pasts and Paranoid Presents: John Franzen against Active Forgetting in Purity

2019 ◽  
pp. 21-34
Author(s):  
Cristina Garrigós
Keyword(s):  
Traumatic Event ◽  
The Novel ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Personal Archives ◽  
Conscious Process ◽  
Unconscious Desire ◽  
Selection Of

Forgetting and remembering are as inevitably linked as lifeand death. Sometimes, forgetting is motivated by a biological disorder, brain damage, or it is the product of an unconscious desire derived from a traumatic event (psychological repression). But in some cases, we can motivate forgetting consciously (thought suppression). It is through the conscious repression of memories that we can find self-preservation and move forward, although this means that we create a fable of our lives, as Nietzsche says in his essay “On the Uses and Disadvantages of History for Life” (1997). In Jonathan Franzen’s novel, Purity (2015), forgetting is an active and conscious process by which the characters choose to forget certain episodes of their lives to be able to construct new identities. The erased memories include murder, economical privileges derived from illegal or unethical commercial processes, or dark sexual episodes. The obsession with forgetting the past links the lives of the main characters, and structures the narrative of the novel. The motivated erasure of memories becomes, thus, a way that the characters have to survive and face the present according to a (fake) narrative that they have constructed. But is motivated forgetting possible? Can one completely suppress facts in an active way? This paper analyses the role of forgetting in Franzen’s novel in relation to the need in our contemporary society to deny, hide, or erase uncomfortable data from our historical or personal archives; the need to make disappear stories which we do not want to accept, recognize, and much less make known to the public. This is related to how we manage information in the age of technology, the “selection” of what is to be the official story, and how we rewrite our own history

scholarly journals Sharing Stories: Students’ Experiences in Archaeological Education

2020 ◽  
Vol 4 (1) ◽  
pp. 23-28
Author(s):  
Magdalena Kozicka ◽  
Ewa Wielocha
Keyword(s):  
Local Communities ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Contemporary Society ◽  
The Past ◽  
Contemporary Reality ◽  
Nicolaus Copernicus ◽  
Mass Events

AbstractSociety of Archaeology Students (SAS), in Polish: Koło Naukowe Studentów Archeologii (KNSA), is one of the oldest student societies working within the Institute of Archaeology of Nicolaus Copernicus University in Toruń. In recent years SAS began to work in cooperation with other archaeological, historical and educational organisations, as well as with museums and open-air archaeological reservations. Most of our work is focused around building and maintaining the archaeological consciousness in contemporary society – not only through participating in various mass events but also through preparing workshops for people from local communities, as well as through adding archaeological impressions to various museum events and mass outdoor reenactment festivals. Within the current outlook on archaeological methodology, those actions are linked to so-called public archaeology – the concept that is still somewhat new in many areas of archaeological activities in Poland.The following article concerns strategies that are present in the SAS’ archaeological popularisation initiatives, as well as our reflections and inquiries on the topic of archaeological education in contemporary reality, with its numerous homogenised, standardised or idealised concepts of the past, often mirrored in many historical festivals’ conventions. Through our observations based upon various experiences, we would like to try to determine how the archaeological education and popularisation could be more widely recognised not only as a valuable but rather as an inseparable part of being an archaeolo-gist – university scholar or a field-working one.

Contesting ‘Sustainability' in Infrastructure Planning

2010 ◽  
pp. 213-230
Author(s):  
Kuniko Shibata ◽  
Paul Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Infrastructure Planning ◽  
Sustainable Infrastructure ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sustainability Concept

Sustainable infrastructure demands that declared principles of sustainability are enacted in the processes of its implementation. However, a problem arises if the concept of sustainability is not thoroughly scrutinized in the planning process. The public interest could be undermined when the rhetoric of sustainability is used to substantiate a proposed plan. This chapter analyses the manifestation of sustainable development in the Boggo Road Busway Plan in Brisbane, Australia against the sustainability agenda set in the South East Queensland Regional and Transport Plans. Although the construction of the Busway was intended to improve public transport access in the region, its implementation drew significant environmental concerns. Local community groups contested the ‘sustainability’ concept deployed in Queensland’s infrastructure planning. Their challenges resulted in important concessions in the delivery of the Busway plan. This case demonstrates that principles of sustainable infrastructure should be measurable and that local communities be better informed in order to fulfill the public interest in regional planning.

scholarly journals Religion, Human Rights, and Forensic Activism: The Search for the Disappeared in Latin America

Religions ◽  
2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (11) ◽  
pp. 601
Author(s):  
María Soledad Catoggio
Keyword(s):  
Human Rights ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Making Sense ◽  
Qualitative Research Design ◽  
Human Rights Movement ◽  
Mode Of Operation ◽  
Scientific Expertise ◽  
Scientific System ◽  
Depth Interviews

This paper systematizes and analyzes the links and exchanges between the Argentine Forensic Anthropology Team (Equipo Argentino de Antropología Forense (EAAF)) and the world of religion. My hypothesis is that these links are inextricable from the mode of operation that defined the EAAF, which can be called “forensic activism”. This kind of activism, outside the State, combined scientific expertise with humanitarian sensitivity, defined by its autonomy from the human rights movement and the national scientific system (both academic and university). Moreover, religion emerged constantly from the type of work undertaken, between the living and the dead. Thus, beliefs, with their prohibitions, rituals, and ways of making sense of suffering and their tools for coming to terms with grief, coexisted with the EAAF’s development. These findings emerge from a qualitative research design combining document analysis, in-depth interviews, and participative observation of scientific disclosure open to the public provided by the EAAF over the past three years.

scholarly journals Perception of Local Communities Towards the Conservation Terubok

2019 ◽  
Vol 9 (3) ◽  
pp. 143
Author(s):  
Nur Athirah Bakeri ◽  
Dayang Affizzah Awang Marikan ◽  
Amin Mahir Abdullah
Keyword(s):  
Positive Attitude ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Government Intervention ◽  
Economic Value ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Public Understanding ◽  
The Past ◽  
Almost All ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Conservation Interventions

Terubok is one of the famous, important commercially fish in Malaysia and has high economic value which only can be found in Sarawak rivers. However, this species has been threatened in the past 15 years due to heavy exploitation. Hence, this study was done to examine the perceptions of local in conserving and sustaining the terubok population. An attitudinal study is increasingly being adopted as tools for evaluating public understanding, acceptance and the impact of conservation interventions. This study examines the perception and views of local community towards the dynamic resources, government intervention, unique features and livelihood sustainability which acts as a basis on conserving terubok. The findings of these studies show that almost all of the respondents show a highly positive attitude towards conserving terubok. Local community are really well aware with the importance of terubok. Hence, this study has proof that the local community has a positive attitude towards conserving terubok.

scholarly journals Reconfiguring the public and the private: Noc-Noc arts festival, Guimarães, Portugal

2016 ◽  
Vol 24 (2) ◽  
pp. 193-208 ◽  
Author(s):  
João Sarmento ◽  
Marisa Ferreira
Keyword(s):  
Economic Development ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Public Investment ◽  
City Council ◽  
Public And Private ◽  
Private Space ◽  
The Public ◽  
The Past ◽  
Arts Festival ◽  
The City

In the past decades many cities have experienced growing pressure to produce and stage cultural events of different sorts to promote themselves and improve economic development. Culture-led development often relies on significant public investment and major private-sector sponsoring. In the context of strained public finances and profound economic crisis in European peripheral countries, local community low-budget events that manage to create significant fluxes of visitors and visibility assume a particular relevance. This paper looks at the four editions (2011–2014) of Noc-Noc, an arts festival organized by a local association in the city of Guimarães, Portugal, which is based on creating transient spaces of culture by transforming numerous homes, commercial outlets and other buildings into ephemeral convivial and playful ‘public’ environments. By interviewing a sample of people who have hosted (sometimes doubling as artists) these transitory art performances and exhibitions, artists and the events’ organizers and by experiencing the four editions of the event and engaging in multiple informal conversations with the public, this paper attempts to discuss how urban citizens may disrupt the cleavages between public and private space permitting various transgressions, and unsettling the hegemonic condition of the city council as the patron of the large majority of events.

scholarly journals COMMUNITY PARTICIPATION OF TEMUKU AYA SUBAK TOUR DEVELOPMENT IN VILLAGE OF TAJEN, PENEBEL DISTRICT, TABANAN REGENCY

2017 ◽  
Vol 3 (1) ◽  
pp. 20
Author(s):  
Gusti Ayu Putu Indah Trisna Dewi ◽  
I Wayan Pantiyasa
Keyword(s):  
Environmental Impact ◽  
Community Participation ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Cultural Impact ◽  
Analysis Technique ◽  
Tourism Potential ◽  
The Impact ◽  
The Village ◽  
Depth Interviews

The purpose of this research was to know the tourism potential of Temuku Aya Subak Tour seen from 3A that were an attraction, access, and facility. In addition, to know the participation of local communities, as well as the impact of Temuku Aya Subak Tour development to the local community. Temuku Aya Subak Tour is located in Tajen Village and developed by local people who see the potential of tourism in this village.Data collection techniques used were in-depth interviews, observation, and documentation. The analysis technique used was descriptive qualitative analysis and also Triangulation data. The results showed Temuku Aya Subak Tour had the potential of natural rice fields and plantations. Temuku Aya Subak Tour also offered tourism activities as well as the preservation of local culture and traditions. In addition, local communities also participated as investors and as employees in the development of Temuku Aya Subak Tour. The tour economic impact could provide employment. From the socio-cultural impact, it could keep the local customs and traditions of the village, and from environmental impact, the local community could be more aware of the cleanliness of the village environment.

Contesting ‘Sustainability‘ in Infrastructure Planning

2011 ◽  
pp. 1539-1557 ◽  
Author(s):  
Kuniko Shibata ◽  
Paul Sanders
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Public Interest ◽  
Local Community ◽  
Planning Process ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Community Groups ◽  
Infrastructure Planning ◽  
Sustainable Infrastructure ◽  
The Public ◽  
Sustainability Concept

Sustainable infrastructure demands that declared principles of sustainability are enacted in the processes of its implementation. However, a problem arises if the concept of sustainability is not thoroughly scrutinized in the planning process. The public interest could be undermined when the rhetoric of sustainability is used to substantiate a proposed plan. This chapter analyses the manifestation of sustainable development in the Boggo Road Busway Plan in Brisbane, Australia against the sustainability agenda set in the South East Queensland Regional and Transport Plans. Although the construction of the Busway was intended to improve public transport access in the region, its implementation drew significant environmental concerns. Local community groups contested the ‘sustainability’ concept deployed in Queensland’s infrastructure planning. Their challenges resulted in important concessions in the delivery of the Busway plan. This case demonstrates that principles of sustainable infrastructure should be measurable and that local communities be better informed in order to fulfill the public interest in regional planning.

Public Archaeology in Poland: State of the Art and Future Directions

2021 ◽  
pp. 1-16
Author(s):  
Michał Pawleta
Keyword(s):  
Present State ◽  
General Public ◽  
State Of The Art ◽  
Local Communities ◽  
Public Archaeology ◽  
Historical Background ◽  
Future Directions ◽  
Archaeological Heritage ◽  
Archaeological Practice ◽  
The Past

This article aims to conceptualize the present state of public archaeology in Poland, which has recently become topical in archaeological practice. The author defines public archaeology and discusses the historical background of such activities in the context of the specific traditions of Polish archaeology. He then describes the main forms of outreach activities undertaken by archaeologists in Poland and presents community-oriented initiatives that go beyond the education of the general public about the past and strive to engage local communities in activities focused on archaeology and archaeological heritage. He concludes by outlining some directions that this sub-discipline may adopt in future.

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