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Réf.

42143

Type

conference item

Titre

Historic preservation : a new culture in old worlds?

Langues

English

Langues des résumés

French

Auteurs

Raj Isar, Yudhishthir

Lieu de publication

Washington

Pays de publication

United States

Maison d'édition

ICOMOS United States

Date

1987

Pages

p. 906-913

Titre de la source

Old cultures in new worlds. 8th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium. Programme report - Compte rendu

Titre de conférence

ICOMOS 8th General Assembly: Old Cultures in New Worlds

Lieu de conférence

Washington D.C., United States

Date de conférence

10-15 October 1987

Mots-clés

conservation of cultural heritage / theoretical aspects / theory of conservation / conservation of historic monuments / social aspects / concepts

Résumé en anglais

Is not the broad, environmentally oriented ideology of historic preservation, to which we all subscribe, a "new" culture in the "old" world of non-western societies? This question is based on the observation that in many such countries the safeguard of highly symbolic monuments is indeed attended to in the name of cultural nationalism and identity but that preservation of the historic built environment remains very limited. The broader notions of conservation, themselves of relatively recent origin in the West, are rarely found in the Third World beyond small specialized segments of the national intelligentsias. Is not this hiatus yet another sign of the deep cultural divisions between traditional and modern sub-cultures and of the reliance of the latter on models, norms and procedures whose applicability in non-Western contexts is increasingly open to question?

Document joint

wash120.pdf

Licence

Creative Commons Attribution-Non Commercial-No Derivatives (BY-NC-ND)

N° d'entrée et cote

9807