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    612-822-4611

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Living in a World Heritage Site: Ethnography of Houses and Daily Life in the Fez Medina

Living in a World Heritage Site: Ethnography of Houses and Daily Life in the Fez Medina

Istasse, Manon

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Series: Palgrave Studies in Urban Anthropology

AnthropologyGeneral Racism & Ethnic StudiesGeneral Sociology

ISBN10: 3030174530
ISBN13: 9783030174538
Publisher: Palgrave MacMillan
Published: Aug 14 2020
Pages: 293
Weight: 0.83
Height: 0.66 Width: 5.83 Depth: 8.27
Language: English

Through a thick ethnography of the Fez medina in Morocco, a World Heritage site since 1981, Manon Istasse interrogates how human beings come to define houses as heritage. Istasse interrogates how heritage appears (or not) when inhabitants undertake construction and restoration projects in their homes, furnish and decorate their spaces, talk about their affective and sensual relations with houses, face conflicts in and about their houses, and more. Shedding light on the continuum between houses-as-dwellings and houses-as-heritage, the author establishes heritage as a trajectory: heritage as a quality results from a 'surplus of attention' and relates to nostalgia or to a feeling of threat, loss, and disappearance; to values related to purity, materiality, and time; and to actions of preservation and transmission. Living in a World Heritage site provides a grammar of heritage that will allow scholars to question key notions of temporality and nostalgia, the idea of culture, theimportance of experts, and moral principles in relation to heritage sites around the globe.

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