Volume 11, Issue 2, 2014

Sonia Catrina, Cyril IsnartPages 7-17DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411212 ABSTRACT “Cultural heritage” is a complex notion, having evolved over time from the “legacy of the father” to the “legacy of a particular group”, to finally expand and become the “legacy of the entire humanity.” The new devel- opments in “heritage” are due to the UNESCO International Conven- tions […]

Nicolito A. GiananPages 19-37DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411213 ABSTRACT Heritage-making can mean many things to different cultures, especially with the advent of multiculturalism and interculturalism. From this perspective, a wide array of cultural items, devices and values can be witnessed, and some of these are significant, yet others are considered in the balance. To argue that heritagemaking is

Susan LT AshleyPages 39-58DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411214 ABSTRACT In Canada, the language and techniques of museums and heritage sites have been adopted and adapted by some immigrant communities to make sense of their place within their new country. For some groups, “heritagization” is a new value, mobilized for diverse purposes. New museums and heritage sites serve as

Michel Rautenberg, Sarah RojonPages 59-81DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411215 ABSTRACT History is not anymore the prerogative of historians, nor is displaying heritage the exclusive privilege of museum curators. In the digital era, local interconnected amateurs commit themselves to the cultural circuit of heritage through the mediation of globalised images. In that circuit, heritage and social memory take a

Vintilă MihăilescuPages 83-107DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411216 ABSTRACT As already stated by Alfred Marshall in 1891, a house is “the most conven- ient and obvious way of advancing a material claim to social distinction.” The pre- sent paper is tracking the means and meanings of such “claims” in the case of the new households built all over the

Meglena ZlatkovaPages 109-130DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411217 ABSTRACT This paper discusses inheritance after migration on both sides of the Bulgarian-Turkish border. A specific approach to the (re-)settled people and moving objects, inheritance and patrimonialisation of the movement, instrumentalized by the (state) border, is applied in a comparative way to two specific groups: the Bulgarians from Aegean Thrace, or

Ema PiresPages 131-141DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411218 ABSTRACT This paper explores alternative meanings and appropriations of the category colonial heritage. How do different categories of people practice and appropriate spaces that have been labelled as colonial heritage? How are these formely colonial spaces (re-) appropriated, contested, commodifed, in contemporary societies? My interest here is strongly influenced by Ann

Eloy Martos Núñez, Alberto Martos GarcíaPages 143-161DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411219 ABSTRACT Tourism is a worldwide phenomenon which is causing both a rereading and a rewriting of tradition. Heritage, apart from its academic (ethnographic, historiographical, etc.) or cultural (identity of peoples) consideration, is nowadays an important tourist resource. Thus, it is included within more global markets and it

Elena SerdyukovaPages 163-180DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411220 ABSTRACT The research reported in this paper examines the spiritual heritage of the Russian émigrés of the first half of the 20th century. The Russian émigrés is a unique phenomenon in the history of Russia. The October Socialist Revolution 1917, shock of creative intelligentsia at the events taking place in the

Thorsten Botz-BornsteinPages 183-198DOI: 10.5840/cultura201411221 ABSTRACT In spite of the long tradition of coexistence, and in spite of the emergence of some kind of “postmodern relativism,” the positions of believers and secularist remain very distinct. What is it more precisely that distinguishes secularists from believers? In this article I explore the topics of “postmodernism” and relativism