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National Parks & World Heritage Sites
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Geography
Undergraduate 2
10/24/2011

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international landscape
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a valued geographic area so large that it crosses international borders
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what topics does the textbook cover?
Definition
the identity, interpretation, and funding of heritage sites
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what are three heritage fields?
Definition
People, nature, and landscapes
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Where do tourists travel most?
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Where are heritage and tourisms sites located?
Definition
in almost every country in the world
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"top down"
Definition
the dominant group defines what is meant by culture, and these ideas are transmitted to other groups
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What are the groups of people you need to appeal to when trying to make changes or promote to a site?
Definition
Owners, outsiders, insiders, givernments, academics, and the media
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What are the fields of heritage?
Definition
nature, landscapes, monuments, sites, artifacts, activities, people
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dark tourism
Definition
people who travel to sites associated with death and suffering
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globalization
Definition
world's culture homoginizing voluntarily
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othering
Definition
finding flaws in others to make yourself feel better
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stakeholders
Definition
people who have interest in the group or activit at hand
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hegimony
Definition
ruling group
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what kind of science is heritage?
Definition
applied science: application of scientific knowledge
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heritage
Definition
anything someone wishes to conserve or collect to pass on to future generations
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why is media necessary for selling heritage?
Definition
it is able to broadcast to the masses
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what types of media are useful?
Definition
newspapers, social networking, television, radio, magazines, releases
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where does the word heritage come from?
Definition
French meaning legacy
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who are the insiders?
Definition
involved in promotion, founders, supporters of site, site workers
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Why can insiders sometimes be an issue?
Definition
they work so closely with the site so you must appeal to them in order to make the changes you want to make
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what are monuments?
Definition
buildings, archaeological remains, sculptures
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main duty of site manager?
Definition
maintain a sense of balance
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How is heritage maintined and preserved?
Definition
endowments, foundations, not-for-profit groups, govts., umbrealla organizations, volunteers
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compare and contrast heritage and culture
Definition

heritage: anything someone wishes to conserve or collect for future generations

culture: the quality in a person or society that arises from a concernfor what is regarded as excellent in arts, letters, manners,scholarly pursuits, etc.

 

 

 

 

 

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why study heritage?
Definition
teaches us about different culture of different nations and areas and peoples
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"The dominant group builds universities to teach the dominant group to regard itself as such"

How does this relate to who controls heritage?

Definition
"top down" idea.  the hegimonic group wants to remain hegimonic so they teach their ideas
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owners
Definition
state or fed. govt., taxpayers/stakeholders, private creators, controllers, those living adjacent to the land, person who takes responsibilty for the care of the site
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outsiders
Definition

tourists, the everyday people coming to your site

 

appeal to them through brochures, ads, media, incentives

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governments as a group to appeal to
Definition
may own site, may want to give $, could need to turn site over at some point to ensure permanence, they can take a lot of tax burdens off
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how to get govts. interested in your site
Definition
invite politicians to events, cards for occasions, follow up calls, supprts them, go to hearings, put them on mailing list
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academics
Definition
sometimes insiders, can help to interpret your site, offer you the help of their students (volunteers and interns)
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examples of sites
Definition
where important events occured, battlefields, markers, not amterial evidence present
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5 ways to be sustainable
Definition

1. purchasing and administration: buy only what you need and make in env. friendly

2. energy conservation: retrofit and renovate

3. transportation: car pool, bikes, walk

4. alt. fuels: electric, hyd., bio

5. new construction: don't over build, environmentally friendly buildings, high building standards

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what is sustainability?
Definition
making sure that nature is there for future generations
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Where would one go to obtain an official listing of global heritage sites?
Definition
UNESCO website
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what does UNESCO stand for?
Definition
United nations educational, scientific, and cultural organization
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what function does the NPS serve?
Definition
preserves parks
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what function does the NIAH serve?
Definition
conserves historical artifacts
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what function does the national trust serve?
Definition
charity and protection
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landscape
Definition

any scene with a particular characteristic

architecture, hills/mountains, scrub, areas of natural beauty (AONB), cultivated places

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artifacts
Definition

things that portray the culture of the era at hand

museum artifacts, ships, family albums, artwork

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activities
Definition
make site attractive, reinactments, clubs, related foods, demonstrations, anything that could possibly be authentic
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people
Definition

anything associated with an important person

room he or she used, etc.

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nature
Definition
zoos, geology, flora and fauna, habitats, air and water
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what country has the most WHS
Definition
Italy
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heritage v. history
Definition
most heritage sites don't come out of history
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government v. governance
Definition
governance: to exercise control, a guide, might not be related to the law, groups might want more access to a park or site or might not like how things are run
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cultural diffusion
Definition

cultural item spreads from group to group or society to society

- ex: fast food

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how can sites create cultural diffusion?
Definition
appealing to the masses.  the more people you educate with your site, the more people will be educated in general
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how do we misuse the word community?
Definition
we use it too generally and too often
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what is the correct definition of community?
Definition
A group of people living together in one place, esp. one practicing common ownership
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who are marginalized peoples?
Definition
one who is relegated to the fringes and has little to no say in matters
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who is the site for?
Definition

future generations, anyone interested, tourists

 

interpretation can affect who actually becomes interested

Term
where does the $ come from?
Definition
endowments, foundations, not-for-profit groups, govts., umbrella orgs.
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where should the site be?
Definition
original site, where the least opposition will be
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commodification
Definition
product, packaging, and pricing of heritage
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media v. medium
Definition

media: plural

medium: singular

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Should a site be left in its natural state? Pros and cons for both sides
Definition
Term
theory of legitimacy
Definition
people want to legitimize their past and present by controlling or protecting the heritage sites or by claiming them as their own
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theory of cultural capital
Definition
non-financial, forms of knowledge, skills, education, and advantages that a person has, which give them a higher status in society
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theory of control
Definition
explains why we want to destroy or create sites, we want to control what people learn and see
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why does western europe have more heritage sites? who do other countries have less?
Definition

they have more of a hegimony to take control, they know how to promote their sites, they may be more literate or wealthy

 

other countries may have more pressing matters to worry about

Term
what is a reductionist and how does it relate to community?
Definition
someone who only skims the main points - not necessarily on purpose - because they might not have the knowledge to go deeper. as it relates to community, people don't have the knowledge of what a community entails to use the word in its correct sense
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what do waterton and smith say the problems with community are?
Definition
people don't have the same idea of what a community is, communities are not behaving very comminity-like, the hegimony tries to speak for the marginalized people
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when soeaking about the politics of recognition, how do we get marginalized people to get together and form heritage sites?
Definition
get their passion flowing, utilize non-profits and umbrella orgs that may take on small groups
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patrimony
Definition
something of national importance
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stratified random sample
Definition
just that
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purposful sample
Definition
asking certain groups of people (ex: only students)
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snowball sample
Definition
not so random. you ask one erson who refers you to another and so on
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why should heritage not be strictly interpreted academically?
Definition
not everyone is an academic - those people may feel alienated. make it informative yet appealing
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what is cultural resource management?
Definition
curator-ship, maintains and upholds the integrity of the heritage
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who is heritage for?
Definition
everyone
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what is "fakery"?
Definition
things that look similar to the heritage (faximilies, tee pee hotels)
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difference between press release and news release
Definition

press: response or reaction to a situation

news: response to a news item you wish to impart

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what should releases be like?
Definition
truthful, factual, sypathetic, positive, avoid looking evasive, defer to experts, use top person for quotes
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what should be included when composing a release?
Definition
what type of release is it? who is it for? release date, one pg, sources of info and news, dateline and publication date, "for more info...", headline, stand-alone paragraphs
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