Introduction to Global Heritage Studies

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Heritage is something that can be passed from one generation to the next, something that can be conserved or inherited, and something that has historic or cultural value. For instance, there are 1121 physical sites across the globe that the United Nations has designated as World Heritage, ranging from the Grand Canyon National Park to Stonehenge and the Alhambra, from Auschwitz Birkenau and Machu Pichu to the Great Barrier Reef. Heritage can be a physical site like these places, but it can also be intangible, as in language, culture, popular song, food, literature or dress. Focuses on key concepts, definitions, theories and debates central to understanding what heritage is, and on heritage studies as a field of inquiry.