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Réf.
41479
Type
conference item
Titre
Staking new claims: Reinterpreting historic mining sites
Langues
English
Auteurs
Rheaume, Ernest
Date
2008
Pages
10 p.
Titre de conférence
16th ICOMOS General Assembly and International Symposium: ‘Finding the spirit of place – between the tangible and the intangible’
Lieu de conférence
Québec, Canada
Date de conférence
29 sept – 4 oct 2008
Mots-clés
industrial heritage / historic sites / conservation of historic sites / interpretation / transmission / mines
Pays mentionnés
United States
Monuments et sites
Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument (ORPI), USA
Résumé en anglais
Historical preservation is a discipline that requires a uniqueinterpretation of space and the physical landscape. However, federal and
state laws have increasingly dictated historical preservation, which has hadthe effect of constraining the discourse surrounding historic sites and their
interpretation. Regulations require that historic sites be assigned a “period ofsignificance;” a slice of time in which the site is considered to be important
and which the public is made to experience it. This practice excludes thelarger and continuous histories of sites and the way they have been
experienced by all overtime. Borrowing upon Michel Foucault’s idea ofheterotopias, this paper will assess the current understanding of historic
mining sites at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and suggest new waysto study, interpret, and experience them.
state laws have increasingly dictated historical preservation, which has hadthe effect of constraining the discourse surrounding historic sites and their
interpretation. Regulations require that historic sites be assigned a “period ofsignificance;” a slice of time in which the site is considered to be important
and which the public is made to experience it. This practice excludes thelarger and continuous histories of sites and the way they have been
experienced by all overtime. Borrowing upon Michel Foucault’s idea ofheterotopias, this paper will assess the current understanding of historic
mining sites at Organ Pipe Cactus National Monument and suggest new waysto study, interpret, and experience them.
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