Drawing on anthropological fieldwork, this book presents case studies illustrating the re-conceptualization of heritages and traditions in selected locations in Africa, Asia, Australia and Europe. The authors review the importance of oral traditions as markers of identity and consider competing narratives of heritage in postcolonial societies.

'...a well-organised, deftly-edited and professionally-produced volume which incorporates both interesting ethnography and intriguing analytic insights in a way which should provoke further ideas for research into the anthropology of heritage and tradition.' - Irish Journal of Anthropology

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GABRIELLA EVANGELIA ASPRAKI teaches at the Department of Philosophical and Social Studies, Panteion University, Athens, Greece ANNA BOHLIN is with the Centre for Public Sector Research, Göteborg University, Sweden KELLI ANN COSTA is Associate Professor of Anthropology at Franklin Pierce College in Rindge, New Hampshire, USA IAN FAIRWEATHER is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology at the University of Manchester, UK HEATHER GILL-ROBINSON is Assistant Professor of Anthropology at North Dakota State University in Fargo, North Dakota, USA BARBARA R. HEWITT is a doctoral candidate in the Department of Anthropology, University of Western Ontario, Canada ANNE KATHRINE LARSEN is Associate Professor at the Norwegian University of Science and Technology, Trondheim, Norway GABRIELLE MARRANCI is a Lecturer in the Anthropology of Religion, University of Aberdeen, UK FIONA MAGOWAN is a Lecturer in Social Anthropology, Queen's University, Belfast, UK HANA NOVOTNÁ is currently based at the Universities of Hradec Kralove and Pardubice, Czech Republic IRENA WEBER is Assistant Professor of Social Anthropology and Independent Researcher

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Acknowledgements Notes on Contributors Cultural Heritages: Process, Power, Commodification; M.Nic Craith Reflexive Traditions and Heritage Production; U.Kockel Tradition As Development Strategy; G.E.Aspraki This is Our Story: Performing, Recording and Archiving Yolngu Cultural Heritage; F.Magowan Tradition as Reflexive Project in Norway and Malaysia: Witch, Whore, Madonna and Heroine; A.K.Larsen Challenging Heritage in the South African Countryside; A.Bohlin Heritage and the Production of Locality in North Namibia; I.Fairweather The Changing Role of British Cultural Heritage in South Africa; H.Novotná The Transmission of Islamic Heritage in Northern Ireland; G.Marranci Heritage Narratives on the Slovenian Coast: The Lion and the Attic; I.Weber Globalizing Heritage: Marketing the Prehistoric Built Environment in Ireland; K.A.Costa Culture, Heritage and Commodification; H.Gill-Robinson Heritage as a Commodity: Are We Devaluing Our Heritage by Making it Available to the Highest Bidder via the Internet?; B.R.Hewitt Index