The Heritage Machine
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The Heritage Machine

Fetishism and Domination in Maragateria, Spain

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The Heritage Machine

Fetishism and Domination in Maragateria, Spain

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This book upturns the conventional understanding of heritage, challenging widespread notions about how we relate to and why we preserve the past. Heritage research is often based on the assumption that heritage is something 'given' to us, that it is good and valuable in its own right. However, by looking at the historical and cultural roots of heritage and its development through the Enlightenment, modernity and capitalism, Pablo Alonso Gonzalez shows that it is in fact a system pervaded by fetishistic social relationships, embedded in capitalism, and not as benign as it appears. Focusing on a case study in the region of MaragaterĂ­a, Spain, Alonso Gonzalez explores the ethnic and racial discrimination towards the local population in the context of Spanish nationalism, and how this formed the region's heritage today. By challenging mainstream scholarship in the field, The Heritage Machine rethinks the relations between heritage, ideology and capitalism.

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Publisher
Pluto Press
Year
2018
ISBN
9781786803016
Edition
1
Topic
Sciences sociales
Subtopic
Anthropologie culturelle et sociale

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Title
  3. Copyright
  4. Contents
  5. List of figures
  6. Series preface
  7. 1. Introduction
  8. 2. The Emergence of Heritage
  9. 3. Race, Ethnicity and Nationalism in Spain
  10. 4. The Subordination of Peasants in MaragaterĂ­a
  11. 5. Before Heritage: Juntas Vecinales and Tamboriteros
  12. 6. Social Construction of Heritage in the Teleno Military Shooting Range
  13. 7. Pseudo-archaeology and the Critique of Heritage Epistemology
  14. 8. Return to the Countryside in Prada de la Sierra
  15. 9. The Heritage Machine in Val de San Lorenzo
  16. 10. The Spectacle of the Other and the Negation of Heritage
  17. Bibliography
  18. Index