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Cambridge Heritage Research Centre

Description

Where history is the study of the past, heritage is the many ways the past is used in the present. Heritage can be understood as an active, dynamic relationship between then and now, formed through an on-going process of renegotiation, reconstruction, and recreation of what is chosen from the past to take into the future.

Heritage is a rapidly growing field of fundamental contemporary significance. It is a key element in the way diverse institutions, political movements and communities recognise their identities, attribute value, contest rights claims and realise their political and economic strategies.

The Cambridge Heritage Research Centre brings together Departments and Faculties from a variety of disciplines across the University of Cambridge to address a range of important themes within heritage research. These include:

  • Heritage, identity, and migration
  • The role of heritage in conflict and post-conflict situations
  • Heritage ecologies – natural and cultural heritage
  • Heritage education and museums
  • Theorising and applying the tangible/intangible heritage distinction
  • Heritage, methodologies and fieldwork

Offers funding

No, this infrastructure does not provide funding.

Founding year

1998

Contact details

University Of Cambridge
Department Of Archaeology
Downing Street
Cambridge
CB2 3DZ
United Kingdom
Website: https://www.heritage.arch.cam.ac.uk/
  • @camb_heritage
  • @cambridge_heritage

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Categorisation

Type

  • University-based infrastructure
  • Centre

Project Tags

  • Cultural studies tag
  • Heritage tag
  • Museum studies tag

University affiliation(s)

University of Cambridge
Cambridge

Last modified:

2024-09-21 00:00:11

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