Cultural heritage management: a possible role for charters and principles in Asia

A number of countries now have charters or principles to underpin approaches to conserving and managing cultural heritage resources. Notably, there is growing interest in their adoption in the Asia‐Pacific region. Paralleling this is the development of university courses in heritage management and tourism in the region. Charters help to define the critical notion of significance which must try to embrace both the tangible and the intangible. Critical to the existence of charters and conventions is the process of establishing and assessing values. In Asia, integrity of heritage places and their continuing authenticity are fundamental concerns, particularly as the notion of heritage embraces traditions, and everyday places. This paper sets out to review current interest in cultural heritage and the various charters we use to assess significance and to offer comment on them with particular reference to heritage management in Asia.     

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EUROPE

The Face of Edinburgh. By William Power. Drawings by Robert Eadie. Glasgow : John Smith and Son Ltd., 1939. Price 4s. 6d.

Bygone Fife North of the Lomonds. By James Wilkie. Edinburgh : The Moray Press, 1939. Price 7s. 6d.

The Historical Geography of the Shetland Islands. By A. C. O'Dell, M.Sc. Lerwick : T. and J. Manson, Shetland News Office, 1939. Price 12s. 6d.

Scotland: Old Slrathclyde (Lanarkshire, Renfrewshire, Dunbartonshire, Ayrshire, Buteshire, Dumfriesshire, Kirkcudbrightshire, and Wigtonshire). By B. H. Humble. Hutchinson's Pocket Guides, edited by W. S. Shears. London: Hutchin‐son and Co. (Publishers) Ltd., 1939. Price 6d.

ASIA

The Regional Balance of Man. By Radhakamal Mukerjee, M.A., Ph.D. Madras: University of Madras, 1938. Price 8s.

AFRICA

An African Survey : A Study of Problems arising in Africa, South of the Sahara. By Lord Hailey. Price 21s.

Science in Africa : A Review of Scientific Research relating to Tropical and Southern Africa. By E. B. Worthington. Price 10s. 6d.

Capital Investment in Africa. By S. Herbert Frankel. London : Humphrey Milford at the Oxford University Press, 1938. Price 10s. 6d.

ARCTIC REGIONS

Unsolved Mysteries of the Arctic. By Vilhjalmur Stefansson. London : George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1939. Price 10s. 6d.

The Conquest of the Arctic. By Louis Segal. London : George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1939. Price 10s. 6d.

OCEANIA

The Saga of “Cimba.” By Richard Maury. London : George G. Harrap and Co. Ltd., 1939. Price 8s. 6d.

NEW EDITIONS

Our Natural Resources and their Conservation. Edited by A. E. Parkins and J. R. Whitaker. New York: John Wiley and Sons Inc. London: Chapman and Hall Ltd. Second Edition, 1939. Price 25s.     

Children constructing Japan: material practices and relational learning

Children's understandings of place have been researched from the differing perspectives of ‘new social studies of childhood’, developmental psychology and geography education. However, the processes by which children construct their understandings of distant places have received relatively little attention. This paper summarises insights from the existing literature and outlines the findings from empirical research which employed a range of interpretive methods within a class of 14-year-olds studying Japan. Representations of Japan and the richly diverse material and relational contexts of their construction are summarised and illustrated by an in depth case study.     

Rocks are heavy: transport costs and Paleoarchaic quarry behavior in the Great Basin

Central place foraging models are used to investigate assemblage variability at two Paleoarchaic (terminal Pleistocene/early Holocene) dacite quarries in the central and eastern Great Basin. Our analyses focus specifically on biface reduction and how varying degrees of reduction relate to the costs of transporting the resulting products upon departing the quarry. Our results suggest that when the distance to be traveled to a residential base is great, reduction will proceed further at the quarry than if the residential base is fairly close. Further, a residential site assemblage will consist of bifaces at later stages of reduction than its associated quarry.     

The Bush administration and Asia Pacific multilateralism: unrequited love?

This article challenges the presumed multilateral aversion of the George W. Bush administration. It argues that, at least in its approach toward the Asia-Pacific, this administration has been a more active and stimulatory advocate of multilateral approaches than is commonly acknowledged. The article begins by documenting the Bush administration's multilateral activism in the Asia-Pacific and examines those factors which appear to have contributed towards it. It then goes on to demonstrate, however, that Bush's at times unexpected enthusiasm for multilateral approaches has encountered a high degree of regional reticence. For a part of the world that has been affording an increased prominence to multilateral institutions and activities, this finding is initially both surprising and significant. The article concludes by seeking to account for this apparent anomaly and by considering its possible implications for the emerging regional architecture.